Open Tech Calendar

6.30 pm Doors open

Drinks and food provided by Skyscanner.

7pm Matthew Slane - Breaking Things For fun and Profit

Whilst a good testing strategy helps preventing issues from making it to production and chaos engineering tools can help with building resiliance in to systems the human path still needs excercising. Wargaming is a popular method to test your incident response mechanisms in a safe and controllable manner so that when the real incidents come you can be confident that you are prepared and ready to deal with them. This is especially relevent in modern, highly distrubuted systems that have many moving parts such as microservices architectures. Wargaming helps teams answer questions such as - Are the monitoring systems able to detect failures? - Do the right people get alerted? - Are the runbooks easy to use for a sleep deprived engineer at 3am? - Does the team have the necessary knowledge and facilities to deal with production incidents? - How easy is it to operate your systems?

8pm George Chaudy - How We Moved to a Multi-Cluster Service Mesh with Istio

Skyscanner run multiple clusters and managing services across these clusters can be challenging. Georges will demonstrate how Skyscanner solved these challenges with the help of Istio to provide a multi-cluster service mesh solution.