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By Ashley Wolf, Open Source Program Manager, Verizon Media

Continuous Delivery (CD) enables software development teams to move faster and adapt to users’ needs quicker by reducing the inherent friction associated with releasing software changes. Releasing new software was once considered risky. By implementing CD, we confront the fragility and improve engineering resilience by delivering new software constantly and automatically. At Yahoo, we built a tool called Screwdriver that enabled us to implement CD at incredible scale. In 2016, Yahoo open sourced Screwdriver.cd, a streamlined build system designed to enable Continuous Delivery to production at scale for dynamic infrastructure.

In the spirit of open source and community, Verizon Media’s Open Source and Screwdriver teams (formerly Yahoo) started the Bay Area CI/CD and DevOps Meetup to build and grow community around continuous delivery. We are planning frequent meetups hosted at Yahoo where industry experts from the Bay Area will be invited to share stories about their CI/CD and DevOps experiences. We invite you to join us.

Our first meetup is on May 21st, 5pm to 8:30pm, at Yahoo in Sunnyvale. Learn from speakers at Walmart Labs, SMDV, and Aeris. RSVP here.

Agenda

5-5:45: Pizza & Networking.

5:45-6: Welcome & Introductions.

6-6:30: “Supercharging the CI/CD pipelines at Walmart with Concord”

Vilas Veeraraghavan, Director of Engineering, Walmart Labs

This talk will focus on how Concord (https://concord.walmartlabs.com/) – an open source workflow orchestration tool built at Walmart – helped supercharge the continuous delivery pipelines used by application teams. We will start with an overview of the state of CI/CD in the industry and then showcase the progress made at Walmart and the upcoming innovations we are working on.

6:30-7: “Practical CI/CD for React Native Apps”

Ariya Hidayat

React Native emerges as a popular solution to build Android and iOS applications from a single code base written in JavaScript/TypeScript. For teams just starting to embrace React Native, the best practices to ensure rock-solid development and deployment are not widely covered yet. In this talk, we will discuss practical CI/CD techniques that allow your team to accelerate the process towards the development of world-class, high-quality React Native apps:

Automated build and verification for every single revision

Continuous check for code quality metrics

Easy deployment to the QA/QE/Verification team

7-7:30: “Successful Continuous Build, Integration & Deployment + Continuous or Controlled Delivery?”

Karthi Sadasivan, Director of Engineering (DevOps), Aeris

This talk will explore ways to improve speed, quality, and security, as well as, how to align tools, processes, and people.

7:30-8:30: Open Discussion. Using one of the available microphones, share a question or thought with attendees. Collectively, let’s share and discuss CICD/DevOps struggles and opportunities.

Speakers

- Vilas Veeraraghavan, Director of Engineering, Walmart Labs

Vilas joined Walmart Labs in 2017 and leads the teams responsible for the continuous integration, testing, and deployment pipelines for eCommerce and Stores. Prior to joining Walmart Labs, he had long stints at Comcast and Netflix where he wore many hats as automation, performance, and failure testing lead.

- Karthi Sadasivan, Director of Engineering (DevOps), Aeris

Karthi heads the DevOps Practice at Aeris Communications. She has 18+ years of global IT industry experience with expertise in Product Engineering Services, DevOps, Agile Engineering and Continuous Delivery. Karthi is a DevOps Evangelist, DevOps Practitioner, and DevOps Enabler. She enjoys to architect, implement and deliver end-to-end devops solutions across multiple industry domains. Karthi is a thought-leader and solution finder, she has a strong passion for solving business problems by bringing people, process, and technologies together.

- Ariya Hidayat

Ariya's official day job is to run start-up engineering teams and he has been done that a couple of times already. Yet, he's equally excited with building open-source tools such as PhantomJS (the world first's headless browser) and Esprima (one of the most popular npm modules). Through his active involvement in the development communities, Ariya is on a mission to spread the gospel of engineering excellence and so far he has delivered over a hundred tech talks of various subjects.

Meetups are a great way to learn about the latest technology trends, open source projects you can join, and networking opportunities that can turn into your next great job. So come for the talks, stay for the conversation, pizza, refreshments, and cookies. Invest in your tech career and meet people who care about the things you care about.

Want to get involved?

Join the Meetup group to find out about upcoming events.

RSVP for the May 21st Meetup.

Volunteer at an upcoming meetup.

Apply to be a speaker.

By Jithin Emmanuel, Sr. Software Dev Manager, Verizon Media

On Tuesday, December 4th, I joined speakers from Spotinst, Nirmata, CloudYuga, and MayaData, at the Microservices and Cloud Native Apps Meetup in Sunnyvale.

We shared how Screwdriver is used for CI/CD at Verizon Media. Created by Yahoo and open-sourced in 2016, Screwdriver is a build platform designed for continuous delivery at scale.

Screwdriver supports an expanding list of source code services, execution engines, and databases since it is not tied to any specific compute platform. Moreover, it has a fully documented API and growing open source community base.

The meetup also featured very interesting CI/CD presentations including these:

A Quick Overview of Intro to Kubernetes Course, by Neependra Khare, Founder, CloudYuga

Neependra discussed his online course which includes some of Kubernetes' basic concepts, architecture, the problems it solves, and the model that it uses to handle containerized deployments and scaling. Additionally, CloudYuga provides training in Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos Marathon, Container Security, GO Language, Advanced Linux Administration, and more.

Achieving a Serverless Experience While Scaling with Kubernetes or Amazon ECS, by Amiram Shachar, CEO & Founder, Spotinst

Amiram discussed two important concepts of Kubernetes: Headroom and 2 Levels Scaling. Amiram also reviewed the different Kubernetes deployment tools, including Kubernetes Operations (Kops). Ritesh Patel, Founder and VP Products at Nirmata, demoed Spotinst and Nirmata. Nirmata provides a complete solution for Kubernetes deployment and management for cloud-based app containerization. Spotinst is workload automation software that’s focused on helping enterprises save time and costs on their cloud compute infrastructure. 

Data Agility for Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes, by Murat Karslioglu, VP Products, MayaData

MayaData is focused on freeing DevOps and Kubernetes from storage constraints with OpenEBS. Murat discussed accelerating CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps, using chaos engineering and containerized storage. Murat also explored some of the open source tools available from MayaData and introduced the MayaData Agility Platform (MDAP). Murat’s presentation ended with a live demo of OpenEBS and Litmus.