Anonymised Machine Learning with Distributed -full title is in the event details
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This is a joint Scottish Blockchain and Scotland Data Science & Technology Meetup
Title: Towards Anonymization for Learning, Transactions and Credentials Within Distributed Trust Infrastructures
Speakers: Will Abramson, Liam Bell, Bill Buchanan, Adam Hall: Blockpass ID Lab.
Date: Tuesday 25th June 2019 @ 6pm
Outline:
GDPR defines an increased focused on encryption and pseudo-anonymization. But many recent data breaches have shown that organisations often have poor practice when it comes to the anonymisation of personally identifiable information. And so, in future systems, we need to focus on the anonymisation the lowest layers of our data gathering, and then identify methods of revealing the information. But how are we going to apply machine learning into infrastructure which use encrypted data? And how are we going to identify individuals within anonymised infrastructures? And how are we going to be able to regulate for consent, privacy and governance?
This Meetup will outline current research into areas such as machine learning on encrypted data, anonymised and trusted credentials, range proofs, and in the trusted deletion of data.
Speakers:
Anonymised and Distributed Machine Learning, Adam Hall. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-james-hall-1b0229113
Trusted Deletion of Data, Liam Bell. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjohnbell
Anonymised and Trusted Credentials, Will Abramson. 20 min.
Range Proofs, Mimblewimble, and other Crypto Magic, Prof Bill Buchanan. 20 min - https://www.linkedin.com/in/billatnapier
The Docker Edinburgh meetup takes place at Codebase, in their Event Space, which is accessible from the entrance on 38 Castle Terrace. The Meetup will run from around 18h30 to 20h00, with further discussion afterwards in the pub! Cloudsoft will be sponsoring the meetup, and pizza and beer will be provided.
Please let us know what sort of speakers or topics you would like to see at future Meetups, or if there are alternative formats like lightning talks that would prefer.
We're always looking for new speakers, so please get in touch if you have something you'd like to present about Docker or the wider DevOps community!
Speakers
TBC
Discussion
Current Schedule
18h30 - Pizza and beer (thanks, Cloudsoft)
19h00 - First Talk
19h30 - Second Talk
20h00 - Discussion continues at an appropriate external venue...
Decentralised Identity - The solution for the sovereign.....
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Scottish Blockchain Meetup in partnership with the Edinburgh FinTech and Blockchain Society host their next event “Decentralised Identity - the solution for the sovereign individual?”.
To secure your place please register on Eventbrite
Liam Bell the Research Lead of the Blockpass ID Lab will talk about why it is important to decentralize the concept of digital identity and how blockpass is working on achieving it by deploying blockchain technology. He will also talk about the pitfalls of designing identity systems which are challenges to overcome during his work.
What is Blockpass?
Blockpass offers shared regulatory compliance services for humans, companies, objects and devices. As an identity system that supports verification of humans (KYC), objects (KYO) and connected devices (KYD), Blockpass will enable the development of new applications that rely on a trusted connection between multiple entities.
The goal of the Blockchain & FinTech Society is to encourage people to inform themselves about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies & FinTech because we are convinced, they will play a large role in the future.
If you are interested in the activities of the society follow us on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ENUBFS/, write us an email to [masked] or visit our website https://www.napierfintech.com/.
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of skills and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
As always everyone is welcome, we have beginners and we have developers in our group, so please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
The social gathering we have after the talk has been very beneficial for people to meet others interested in WordPress and even get tips and recommendations not associated with the topic of the night.
We are currently arranging the speaker, stay tuned...
Meetup @ 6pm (speaker starts @ 6:30pm)
Everyone is welcome, we have members and regular attendees who are widely varied in their WordPress Skills, beginners through to experts. Combine this with a variety of interests and backgrounds and you have a recipe for a great meetup. So please do come along regardless or your WordPress knowledge!
There is always a social side to the WP Edinburgh meetups, many attendees have found this to be of great benefit & an opportunity to meet others to share & learn on all things WordPress and beyond :)
We're delighted to be back at SolarWinds again (remember, to avoid ending up in the parking lot, don't use sat nav, follow the instructions on our address 😆).
We'll have our regular update on the PyData community, lightning talks and we're delighted to have Sabine Weber from the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at University of Edinburgh as our main speaker.
We look forward to seeing you there — doors open at 1815, make sure you've clicked attend to reserve your place!
TALK DETAILS
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Show not tell: Teaching machines entailment
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Presenter: Sabine Weber
Sabine Weber is a second year PhD student at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh. She works on semantics and specifically on detecting and aligning entailment in English and German. She has a background in both Linguistics and Computer Science.
Description:
Detecting entailment and reasoning with it is one of the tasks that humans solve with ease, but that computers struggle with. If we hear that our Aunt Mary arrived in London, we know that she is in London at this very moment. But how can we teach knowledge like this to a machine without writing down thousands of rules by hand? In this talk I will present a method to mine entailment relations between verbs from a large collection of news text in German and English and show some possible applications for the resulting multilingual entailment graphs.
LIGHTNING TALKS
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Share your stories! Share your successes & failures! Share your hints & tips! Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you.
If you want to give a lightning talk at this event, send us a message either here on Meetup, through Twitter @PyDataEdinburgh or any other way you know how to find us!
Just 5 minutes, still informal, no need for slides unless you want them — go on, give it a go!
LOGISTICS
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Please note all attendees MUST sign up to the Meetup to be admitted.
1815: Doors open, drinks & networking
1845: Talks start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, then lightning talks.
We'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.
SPONSORS & REFRESHMENTS
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As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas — Cathcart Associates (https://www.cathcartassociates.com), Solarwinds (https://www.solarwinds.com), Wood Mackenzie (https://www.woodmac.com), Lloyds Banking (https://www.lloydsbank.com) and Canon Medical (https://research.eu.medical.canon)
CODE OF CONDUCT
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The PyData Code of Conduct (https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct/) governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the local group organizers (message us on the meetup page). Please also submit a report of any potential Code of Conduct violation directly to NumFOCUS using the link found at https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct.
Thank you for helping us to maintain a welcoming and friendly PyData community!
Product Up is an informal pub meetup in Edinburgh dedicated to bringing together the product community in Edinburgh. Whether you are a Product Manager, UX designer, Engineer or work in Sales/BD and you are passionate about creating fantastic products - ProductUp is for you.
We started the meetup whilst working as Product Managers when we realised that there is no informal place to share product war stories, discuss challenges and keep track of all the amazing developments happening in Edinburgh.
We meet monthly and as outlined, it’s a completely informal meet up so the discussions are entirely open. We have no speakers as this is all about you and giving you a chance to meet and talk to everyone in the community.
The meetup is free to attend, so invite your product friends. Come along for the beer, stay for the great product discussions!
• Important to know
We want to create a comfortable and relaxed environment for our attendees so we would appreciate it if you could refrain from directly selling products/services or do recruitment at our events. It's fine if deals/transactions come out naturally from conversations.
We'll be hosting a community open space, we'll crowdsource some topics for multiple parallel lean coffee groups as well as doing some general networking
some async/post it notes on a wall things like:
share your favourite agile reference
share job opportunities and what you might be looking for
share and answer people's anonymous questions - add your question here https://bit.ly/2UNPZan
networking beer and pizza as usual from 6:30pm, we'll get underway properly at 7pm
To be decided but will normally be one or more of:
• Short/Lightning Talks
• Agile Game/Workshop
• Lean Coffee - a structured but agenda-less meeting, the participants decide what to discuss using http://leancoffee.org (http://leancoffee.org/) format.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE RSVP USING THIS LINK
https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-edinburgh-presents-docker-birthday-6-how-do-you-docker/ Join us for the Edinburgh edition of the Docker Bday #6 Show-and-Tell!
Docker is turning 6! Over the last 6 years, Docker Community members have found amazing and innovative ways of using Docker technology in a variety of different projects. This year, we’d like to celebrate you! If you’ve been working on a cool project using Docker technology, come and show your local community. If you’re new to Docker, come along to listen and learn. All attendees will receive a DockerCon discount code.After a short intro presentation, participants will each have 10-15 minutes of stage-time to show everyone how they have been using Docker (and perhaps get some feedback from others). The presentations do not need to be polished and they can be purely personal, fun projects. Presenters will get a Docker Birthday #6 t-shirt and have the opportunity to submit their Docker Birthday Show-and-Tell to the DockerCon Call For Papers.If you would like to show-and-tell please use the ‘contact us’ button to let us know! Please share an outline of your project and your t-shirt size. Let’s make this the world’s biggest and most fun show-and-tell! Let us know you’re coming by tweeting using the hashtag #DockerBdayWe'll also stop for cake at some point!
Talks:
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Using Docker to Deploy into Embedded Environments by Geoff BallingerIncluding Machines with Vision our work using Docker Swarm mode on the Network Rail New Measurement Train.-
Going Cloud Native at Metaswitch by Peter WhiteMetaswitch sells software to service providers, traditionally in the form of physical boxes with logos on the front going to telephone companies. Metaswitch is being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world, delivering telco software as cloud native software for Kubernetes. Some of Metaswitch's customers love it, some hate it, and some don’t have any idea what we are talking about. Metaswitch's developers are about the same. So, what are Metaswitch doing, why, and what have we found?-
Docker and Kubernetes at arc-net by Kevin Crossarc-net (
https://arc-net.io/) is a relatively new company that runs on Kubernetes. Docker is used to develop, build, package and run arc-net services. Kevin will talk briefly about how they currently use Docker and the important role it plays in arc-net's delivery pipeline and operations. Kevin will then outline plans to improve our use of Docker using a mixture of old and new tools to further improve the delivery pipeline.-
Dockerprep by Michael Warr (ECS Digital)
`dockerprep` is a simple tool I use to bootstrap Docker projects. After a quick run through of why, where, and how, perhaps you’ll want to use it too.
Speakers
Geoff Ballinger - https://www.machineswithvision.com/ (Head of Platform)
Peter White - Metaswitch (Senior Software Architect)
Kevin Cross - arc-net
Michael Warr - ECS Digital (DevOps Continuous Delivery Consultant)
Hosted By
Adrian Mouat, Chief Scientist
Working with containers since the early days. Wrote "Using Docker" published by O'Reilly. Regularly give talks and write blogs on everything Docker, Kubernetes and Microservices.
Mark Lehmann, DevOps
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Partners
ECS Digital (https://ecs-digital.co.uk)
Exception (http://exceptionuk.com/)
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THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE RSVP USING THIS LINK
https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-edinburgh-presents-docker-birthday-6-how-do-you-docker/
Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
In this talk, Guy Templeton will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 10,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time - Matt Houghton, CDL
Learn how CDL, a software provider for the retail insurance sector, processes vast amounts of consumer data in milliseconds using machine learning, AI and big data in order to help the UK's biggest insurance providers combat fraud, learn consumer habits, and more.
The talk will cover how we tried and failed to build a solution, called Hummingbird, with ‘big iron’ before moving to the cloud with AWS. We developed and delivered at scale in under 8 months. We will demo how Hummingbird works in production and how our DevOps team uses key AWS Services, logging, monitoring and machine learning to continually improve and deliver enhancements to the service.
We will share our experience and lessons learnt from completing an AWS Well-Architected Review and applying Chaos Engineering disciplines through Game Days. Technologies discussed include packer, terraform, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, lambdas and containers.
Matt is a Technical Consultant at CDL. Their customer base comprises high volume retail operations or start-ups with serious growth ambitions, including over 100 Internet brands and all the major price comparison sites, and they also have partnerships with over 50 UK insurers. https://www.cdl.co.uk/
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Agenda
6:30pm: Doors open, check-in, refreshments and networking
7pm: Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
7:50pm: Short break
8:00pm: Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time
9pm: Wrap-up
Doors open 6.15pm
First speaker 7.00pm
Short Break 7.50pm
Second speaker 8.00pm
Post event Drinks - Apothocary 9.00pm
Please attempt to get to the venue before 7:00pm as there may be no one to let you in after that.
# Aled Sage : The Case Against Microservices
There are not enough talks out there about the downsides of microservices. Lots of people talk about how to do microservices right, some about the pitfalls and failures that we can learn from. But are microservices even the answer to your biggest painpoints, or will they inevitably increase the pain for you?
This presentation covers why many companies should not even try to do microservices: highlighting simpler ways to get the "benefits of microservices", the downsides of microservices, and the risks they introduce. Finally, it covers the scenarios in which microservices are a good fit.
Aled Sage is VP Engineering at Cloudsoft, and co-founder of Apache Brooklyn. He spends his time helping customers migrate, run and evolve their applications in AWS; and developing the backend automation and processes to do this efficiently and reliably. He also helps big enterprise with devops and automation, particularly for disaster recovery and cloud-native.
Aled has 20 years' experience developing and managing distributed applications, mostly in the enterprise sector. Particular areas of interest include cloud, automation, devops, docker, fault tolerance and concurrency.
# Michael Booth: Skyscanner's MShell - the microservices shell
Cloud native development is hard. Building for an environment which constantly changes while delivering high availability services is challenging.
At Skyscanner, MShell (microservice shell) was created as a collection of CLI tools, components, 3rd party libs, language frameworks and Docker images which together reduce the level of effort required to implement, deploy and operate these kinds of services at scale in AWS.
In this talk we will cover how MShell standardisation has enabled engineers to go from new file to deployed service in minutes as well as diving into the common feature sets required to run cloud native microservices at scale.
Michael Booth is a Senior Engineer who has been working at Skyscanner for the last 8 years based in Edinburgh. During that time, he has worked in various areas of Skyscanner Engineering with most recent work being in the Developer Enablement Tribe building out tools and standards for cloud native development within Skyscanner.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE RSVP USING THIS LINK
https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-edinburgh-presents-docker-birthday-6-how-do-you-docker/ Join us for the Edinburgh edition of the Docker Bday #6 Show-and-Tell!
Docker is turning 6! Over the last 6 years, Docker Community members have found amazing and innovative ways of using Docker technology in a variety of different projects. This year, we’d like to celebrate you! If you’ve been working on a cool project using Docker technology, come and show your local community. If you’re new to Docker, come along to listen and learn. All attendees will receive a DockerCon discount code.After a short intro presentation, participants will each have 10-15 minutes of stage-time to show everyone how they have been using Docker (and perhaps get some feedback from others). The presentations do not need to be polished and they can be purely personal, fun projects. Presenters will get a Docker Birthday #6 t-shirt and have the opportunity to submit their Docker Birthday Show-and-Tell to the DockerCon Call For Papers.If you would like to show-and-tell please use the ‘contact us’ button to let us know! Please share an outline of your project and your t-shirt size. Let’s make this the world’s biggest and most fun show-and-tell! Let us know you’re coming by tweeting using the hashtag #DockerBdayWe'll also stop for cake at some point!
Talks:
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Using Docker to Deploy into Embedded Environments by Geoff BallingerIncluding Machines with Vision our work using Docker Swarm mode on the Network Rail New Measurement Train.-
Going Cloud Native at Metaswitch by Peter WhiteMetaswitch sells software to service providers, traditionally in the form of physical boxes with logos on the front going to telephone companies. Metaswitch is being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world, delivering telco software as cloud native software for Kubernetes. Some of Metaswitch's customers love it, some hate it, and some don’t have any idea what we are talking about. Metaswitch's developers are about the same. So, what are Metaswitch doing, why, and what have we found?-
Docker and Kubernetes at arc-net by Kevin Crossarc-net (
https://arc-net.io/) is a relatively new company that runs on Kubernetes. Docker is used to develop, build, package and run arc-net services. Kevin will talk briefly about how they currently use Docker and the important role it plays in arc-net's delivery pipeline and operations. Kevin will then outline plans to improve our use of Docker using a mixture of old and new tools to further improve the delivery pipeline.-
Dockerprep by Michael Warr (ECS Digital)
`dockerprep` is a simple tool I use to bootstrap Docker projects. After a quick run through of why, where, and how, perhaps you’ll want to use it too.
Speakers
Geoff Ballinger - https://www.machineswithvision.com/ (Head of Platform)
Peter White - Metaswitch (Senior Software Architect)
Kevin Cross - arc-net
Hosted By
Adrian Mouat, Chief Scientist
Working with containers since the early days. Wrote "Using Docker" published by O'Reilly. Regularly give talks and write blogs on everything Docker, Kubernetes and Microservices.
Mark Lehmann, DevOps
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Partners
ECS Digital (https://ecs-digital.co.uk)
Exception (http://exceptionuk.com/)
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THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE RSVP USING THIS LINK
https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-edinburgh-presents-docker-birthday-6-how-do-you-docker/
DLT-EDI#12 (Distributed Ledger Tech Scotland Meetup, Edinburgh) 28th March, 6-9PM RSVP: http://bit.ly/dltedi12 Speakers: Laurence Kirk (Extropy.IO) Proof of Kernel Work, a low energy consensus mechanism that borrows ideas from Algorand. Paul Duddy (Hypervine) blockchain for the construction industry. #meetup #blockchain #dlt
For our next event we'll be doubling down on the success of the February meetup. We'll have snacks, drinks, speakers and a great discussion afterwards!
NOTE: We're currently looking for a location to host the event - if you have any suggestions, please email me at [masked].
I'll update this listing with details closer to the event.
In this session, test lead Sowmya Ramesh will be giving us her thoughts on what it takes to be a test professional, expert and leader through her 'The 10Cs Towards Becoming a Testing Practitioner' presentation.
Sowmya has recently presented at the DevTest Summit in Glasgow and is an active blogger for her employer, 2i Testing.
We will also have lightning talks from Feng Zhu on applying BDD techniques at the discovery phase, such as refinement and Jo Mahadevan on good practices in implementing automated test suites using Gherkin
Plan of Attack:
18:00 - Doors open - Networking
18:45 - Welcome message!
19:00 - Lightning Talk - Feng Zhu
19:10 - Lightning Talk - Jo Mahadevan
19:20 - Sowmya Ramesh - 10 Cs Towards Becoming a Testing Practitioner
20:00- Activity
20:30 - Post Meetup Social (AKA pub)
Synopsis:
Not to be mystified with any connections to the 10 commandments, this session is all about professional development.
The metamorphosis from being a test manager to a testing practitioner has been a personal aspiration which led me to think of the attributes demonstrated by some of highly seasoned professionals I look up to.
Strangely enough, a lot of them seem to start with the letter C – what a ‘co-incidence’ you might say! In this session I wish to share my thoughts on what it takes to be a testing professional commanding respect of peers, someone who has transitioned from an amateur to expert status, one who is considered a leader in thoughts and actions.
As much as this is about technical competence, there are several behavioural aspects expected at such a level in one’s career. I am on an endeavour to understand whether we all have these qualities innately or can we develop some of them through various techniques? Needless to mention all alphabets are welcome to this session! Hope to C you there!
Thanks and Sponsorship:
This venue will both be hosted and sponsored by Scott Logic. Thanks again for your continued support and sponsorship of our Meetup!
About Sowmya:
Sowmya is a testing professional with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has worked in a range of business domains in a consultancy environment.
Having started her career as a developer, she found her way into testing and has not looked back since. Apart from testing, Sowmya is deeply interested in the topic of accessibility – hence she considers herself a champion for quality and equality! Currently a test lead, Sowmya has been an active blogger within her company and considers blogging to be one of the best forms of expression in current times. She enjoys interacting with people and believes communication is one of the most important aspects of her professional life.
Outside work, Sowmya is a mother of two young children and a trained Indian classical dancer. Curious, meticulous and tenacious – that’s Sowmya in a nutshell.
We have a new Ask Me Anything live webinar on Tuesday 9th April at 8 pm UK time. This time we're talking about Whole Team Testing.
mabl are sponsoring this AMA. mabl is the most reliable codeless UI testing service available, enabling continuous testing with an auto-healing automation framework and maintenance-free test infrastructure. Using proprietary machine learning models to automatically identify application issues, including javascript errors, visual regressions, broken links, increased latency, and more, mabl brings traditional UI testing to the modern age.
Find out more about mabl.
Our host Vernon Richards will be joined by Lisa Crispin to answer all your questions.
One of the cornerstones of agile development is the whole-team focus on building quality into the software. On high-performing teams, everyone takes responsibility for testing, regardless of their official role or self-identified specialities. The DevOps movement has built on this, putting even more focus on delivery teams collaborating with Operations and other teams to build testable infrastructure and enabling continuous delivery.
In this AMA, Lisa will answer questions about how whole-team testing works in practice. If you’re wondering how in the world you get non-testers interested in doing work that they’ve purposely avoided in the past, or interested in newer practices that involve more of the delivery team, such as pair and mob testing, please join in with your questions.
Once you've registered you could ask Lisa any question you might have, here are a few more examples:
When I try to get developers to do testing, they say it’s not their job. What can I do about that?
Other people on my cross-functional team say they want to learn how to do testing. How can I help them learn skills? What skills should I start with?
I’m on a separate test automation team. It’s difficult to automate tests for (name some reason, such as, there are no unique identifiers in the UI). How can I get developers to make the code more testable?
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
EdinburghJS is a casual event, presenting short talks and a chance for discussion with other local JavaScripters, whatever your experience or job title is. Our goal is to have an awesome and inclusive community meetup where people meet, hang out together, chat, listen to talks, exchange ideas and make new friends.
We'll be looking for monthly contributors who want to talk about the technologies they're most comfortable with, looking at the pros, cons and unknowns. Drop us a message if you fancy speaking.
The Missing Maps project helps Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and and other NGOs by creating maps of the most vulnerable communities, providing a vital resource for their on-the-ground staff as well as local people.
Missing Maps mapathons are open to everyone. You can come and learn how to create maps and contribute to a global mapping project, OpenStreetMap. All you need is a laptop, some spare time and enthusiasm, and you can take part in humanitarian work from Edinburgh.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE RSVP USING THIS LINK
https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-edinburgh-presents-docker-birthday-6-how-do-you-docker/ Join us for the Edinburgh edition of the Docker Bday #6 Show-and-Tell!
Docker is turning 6! Over the last 6 years, Docker Community members have found amazing and innovative ways of using Docker technology in a variety of different projects. This year, we’d like to celebrate you! If you’ve been working on a cool project using Docker technology, come and show your local community. If you’re new to Docker, come along to listen and learn. All attendees will receive a DockerCon discount code. After a short intro presentation, participants will each have 10-15 minutes of stage-time to show everyone how they have been using Docker (and perhaps get some feedback from others). The presentations do not need to be polished and they can be purely personal, fun projects. Presenters will get a Docker Birthday #6 t-shirt and have the opportunity to submit their Docker Birthday Show-and-Tell to the DockerCon Call For Papers. If you would like to show-and-tell please use the ‘contact us’ button to let us know! Please share an outline of your project and your t-shirt size. Let’s make this the world’s biggest and most fun show-and-tell! Let us know you’re coming by tweeting using the hashtag #DockerBdayWe'll also stop for cake at some point!
Talks:
-
Using Docker to Deploy into Embedded Environments by Geoff BallingerIncluding Machines with Vision our work using Docker Swarm mode on the Network Rail New Measurement Train.-
Going Cloud Native at Metaswitch by Peter WhiteMetaswitch sells software to service providers, traditionally in the form of physical boxes with logos on the front going to telephone companies. Metaswitch is being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world, delivering telco software as cloud native software for Kubernetes. Some of Metaswitch's customers love it, some hate it, and some don’t have any idea what we are talking about. Metaswitch's developers are about the same. So, what are Metaswitch doing, why, and what have we found?-
Docker and Kubernetes at arc-net by Kevin Crossarc-net (
https://arc-net.io/) is a relatively new company that runs on Kubernetes. Docker is used to develop, build, package and run arc-net services. Kevin will talk briefly about how they currently use Docker and the important role it plays in arc-net's delivery pipeline and operations. Kevin will then outline plans to improve our use of Docker using a mixture of old and new tools to further improve the delivery pipeline.
Speakers
Geoff Ballinger - https://www.machineswithvision.com/ (Head of Platform)
Peter White - Metaswitch (Senior Software Architect)
Kevin Cross - arc-net
Hosted By
Adrian Mouat, Chief Scientist
Working with containers since the early days. Wrote "Using Docker" published by O'Reilly. Regularly give talks and write blogs on everything Docker, Kubernetes and Microservices.
Mark Lehmann, DevOps
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THIS IS A FREE EVENT - PLEASE RSVP USING THIS LINK
https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-edinburgh-presents-docker-birthday-6-how-do-you-docker/
18:30 - 19:00:
Sign in, networking, drinks and food!
19:00 - 20:30:
Chaired Round table discussion
We will gather together and discuss as a group the top tech trends of 2019 and how the PHP ecosystem can play its part.
Whether you are a PHP veteran, are interested in learning PHP, or anywhere in-between, you are all welcome to come along and join in, or just listen to the discussions.
Synopsis
We’ve all got the memo now – security testing is good, but organisations need to do more to assess their holistic security approach. Whether it’s red teaming, a CBEST engagement or attack simulations - More is Better in testing the organisations ability to detect and respond to attacks. However, none of these approaches are particularly constructive and tend to enhance barriers between security, monitoring teams and the business rather than removing them. In this session we’ll explore the problems with these approaches and learn about an alternative approach that builds trust and collaboration, and results in better buy-in to fixing problems.
About the speaker
Andrew Scott is the Assurance lead for Scotland for Context IS. In this he works across industries to help clients mature their approach to security testing. Previously he ran one of Scotland’s leading Financial Services company’s security testing strategy where he aligned all testing efforts and increased the effectiveness of remediation activities. His approach addressed not only the technical teams, but also tackled the culture; increasing business awareness, responsibility and ownership of security. Andrew has previously been a penetration tester, Windows and Firewall administrator, and has helped respond to multi-million dollar intrusions.
Open Forum; members are invited to make announcements, share news, seek project collaborators, promote their IoT events, and request topics for future Meetups.
18:30 - 18:50 TBC
A full description of this talk will be added soon.
18:50 - 19.10 TBC
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19:10 - 19:30 TBC
A full description of this talk will be added soon.
Dr Caterina Constantinescu
* A swift introduction to interactive visualisations via R and Shiny
In this code-assisted walkthrough, I will begin by manipulating some data and creating some preliminary, static graphs in R. Afterwards, I will show you how you can generalise such static graphs by integrating elements of interactivity via a Shiny app. We will have a look at some options for constructing the app's UI, as well as how the server communicates with these UI elements and functions internally. The data used to illustrate this process has been downloaded from Kaggle, and represents a set of records for customer purchases made on Black Friday.
Dr Brendan Hill
* Seeing Brexit through visualisations
Data visualisation helps us find more intuitive ways to convey complex narratives, and we are at the beginning/ middle/ end (delete as appropriate) of a world-class example.
From the geography of public opinion to understanding people's underlying motivations for voting, from the political chicanery to the hard choices facing the UK, media, pollsters and academics have had a visualisation bonanza depicting Britain's national calamity/ glorious liberation (delete as appropriate).
I will be showing lots of interesting examples covering facts and fibs we are being told in these most 'interesting' of times, which illustrate a range of more and less successful communication styles.
Some are interactive, some contentious - so bring a device along with your own cognitive and political biases and we'll explore, critique and judge them together. You may learn something, or (in Britain's strongest Remain city) you may just have your opinions reinforced...
As usual, there will be space if you want to share anything. We're also always on the lookout for speakers, so let us know who you have in mind.
See you soon.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs), and Matt (Harrison)
*Venue: we’re in the Inspace Gallery at the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science. The entrance is the slightly inconspicuous door at the *south east* corner of the building (black door aside white poles in the bottom right of the photo above), right opposite Edinburgh Central Mosque.
Dr Caterina Constantinescu
* A swift introduction to interactive visualisations via R and Shiny
In this code-assisted walkthrough, I will begin by manipulating some data and creating some preliminary, static graphs in R. Afterwards, I will show you how you can generalise such static graphs by integrating elements of interactivity via a Shiny app. We will have a look at some options for constructing the app's UI, as well as how the server communicates with these UI elements and functions internally. The data used to illustrate this process has been downloaded from Kaggle, and represents a set of records for customer purchases made on Black Friday.
Dr Brendan Hill
* Seeing Brexit through visualisations
Data visualisation helps us find simple ways to communicate complex narratives, and we are at the beginning/ middle/ end (delete as appropriate) of a world-class example.
From the geography of public opinion to understanding people's underlying motivations for voting, from the political chicanery to the hard choices facing the UK, the media, pollsters and academics have had a visualisation explosion depicting Britain's national calamity/ glorious liberation (delete as appropriate).
I will show some interesting examples to describe the facts and fibs in these most 'interesting' of times, which illustrate a range of display styles that have been more and less successfully used.
Some are interactive, some contentious - so bring a device along with your own cognitive and political biases and we'll explore, critique and judge them together. You may learn something, or (in Britain's strongest Remain city) you may just have your opinions reinforced...
As usual, there will be space if you want to share anything. We're also always on the lookout for speakers, so let us know who you have in mind.
See you soon.
Cheers,
Brendan (Hill), Ben (Bach), Uta (Hinrichs), and Matt (Harrison)
*Venue: we’re in the Inspace Gallery at the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science. The entrance is the slightly inconspicuous black door at the *south east* corner of the building (the black door in the bottom right of the photo above), directly opposite the Mosque.
MyData Scotland launch: Mapping Personal Data Ecosystems
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A MyData Scotland Data Fest Fringe Event.
Ever wondered what happens to your data, where it goes and how it's used? Come along to MyData Scotland’s first event, a workshop on mapping some of the data ecosystems that surround each of us in our daily lives. We will be joined by members of the MyData Global organisation who will be able to tell you all about the MyData vision and the work the MyData Organisation is doing to achieve this vision.
Rough Agenda
5.30 - 6 - Meet and greet
6.00 - 6.30 - MyData Global & Scotland introductions
6.30 - 6.45 - Introduction to ecosystem mapping
6.45 -7.30 - Map out a data ecosystem within groups
7.30 - 8.00 - Present and adapt ecosystems to follow MyData principles
Data affects us all, everyone is welcome to join this conversation!
AWS User Group Edinburgh #14 - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
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Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
In this talk, Guy Templeton will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 10,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
This is going to be an amazing event! We have a very special guest - Lorenzo Sciandra - @Kelset. For those of you who don't know, Lorenzo is a core contributor to React Native project.
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Agenda
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm: Pizza, beer and networking
• 7:00pm - 7:15pm: CSS modules in a growing project by James Rhead
• 8:00pm - 9:00pm: React Native: the past, the present and the future by Lorenzo Sciandra.
• Drinks - TBC
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Venue security
All attendees need to provide their full names in advance. Also, you will need to bring some form of photo ID to show on the day - something like a passport, driving licence, or work ID would be grand.
Recording
The event will be recorded. Let the organisers know, if you don't want to be included in the pictures or videos. Some of them will be used on our social media channels.
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Sponsors
Lloyds Bank
https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/careers/
@LBGCareers
Abstract
The web of the future will be as glossy as today's TV and video games, delivered to high definition screens. WebGL is web-standard, low-level API that unlocks the ability to integrate rich, game-quality graphics into your web pages, by passing instructions directly to computers’ GPUs. The nature of the GPU is significantly different to the nature of the CPU, and so the technologies that build upon it are different also. As React reduces the complexity of working with the DOM, three.js reduces the complexity of working with WebGL. React wrappers for three.js and other WebGL libraries exist. However, whatever tech you choose, you can only go so far before you have to start working with the WebGL API directly.
Bio
Alec started coding on his big brother's Spectrum 48k in the 80s. He worked as a secondary Maths teacher, an educational games developer, agency website developer, social games developer, and eventually became a Senior Software Engineer at YouTube and Google. He is now Principal Developer at KPV LAB, Edinburgh.
---> Talk 3: React Native: the past, the present and the future
Abstract
As we approach React Native's 4th birthday, we've observed more progression than ever before towards the vision of a cross-platform mobile solution. Even still, we have yet to realise its core mission of being as powerful as pure native. There have been many challenges that we've faced head on as they've surfaced. In overcoming them with the support of the community, we've managed to establish React Native as a force that is now defining the future of the segment.
In this talk, we'll explore this history-in-the-making before diving deeper into more technical subjects including the JSI & JSC upgrade, TurboModules & Fabric, and the CodeGen. With all the pieces of the puzzle in place and landing on master in upcoming months, we are closer to reaching our original objective than ever before - while pushing the limits to a whole new level.
Bio
Lorenzo decided to use React Native for a project a few years ago. He hasn't stopped since - which allowed him to become a Software Engineer for Formidable and to help out the Facebook team in maintaining React Native itself and the React Native Community.
When he's not tweeting, he's busy thinking about his next tweet.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: EDINBURGH
Welcome to our second Digital Transformation meet-up in Edinburgh discussing the changing face of IT development and the latest digital transformation subjects. We aim to cover Software Engineering, Data Science, Design and Agile topics over the course of 2019. Confirmed speakers for this event are:
- Martin Dowson, who will be discussing Human Centered Design and a vision for designing for customers.
- Graham Hill, who will be discussing Mobile Testing, to include a live demonstration.
- Manav Mehan, who will be discussing Enterprise Agility
There will also be plenty of time to network with other attendees at this informal meet-up. Food and drink will be provided.
Doors open at 5.45pm for a 6pm start, at the Scottish Widows office at Port Hamilton, Morrison Street, Edinburgh. Entry is by ticket only, so please ensure you bring a printed or electronic copy. Attendees should bring photo ID as this is a secure site.
This is an informal event for local technology practitioners.
This event is brought to you by Lloyds Banking Group Engineering #horsepower
May 2019 Talk | Creating a website with Jekyll and Gitlab.io
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EdLUG recently mvoed its assets off of the self-hosted Drupal solution towards a leaner, cleaner static website. And more secure, to boot!
Tai will be talking about how it is set up, and how to go about creating your very own static website, hosted on GitLab's servers, as an informational point for your group, or just as your own showcase!
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If you have never been to one of these meetings, just know that it's friendly and informal - grab a pint or a soda, come ask questions, get help with open source software and Linux, and enjoy some geeky company!
There is often a Linux laptop on hand for a quick show and tell for anyone who is curious, and you can also bring your own laptop to troubleshoot Linux, or try Linux on your own laptop - without installing it.
