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This event will be 2 talks, "Building a scalable Azure DevOps agent pool for thousands of pipelines" by Wouter de Kort and "Story Telling at the Heart of Civilization - How Event Modeling Makes Sense of Information Systems" by Adam Dymitruk

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom.
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🔑 Password will be announced on the night

📅 Agenda
- 👋 Welcome
- 🗑️ Housekeeping
- 👨‍🏫 Building a scalable Azure DevOps agent pool for thousands of pipelines with Wouter de Kort
-👨‍🏫 Story Telling at the Heart of Civilization - How Event Modeling Makes Sense of Information Systems with Adam Dymitruk
- 🍻 Virtual Bar

👉 Building a scalable Azure DevOps agent pool for thousands of pipelines

Would you be happy in a an Azure DevOps organization with 4.000 users, thousands of build and release pipelines and an average queue time of 6 hours? This was the challenge Wouter faced at a large enterprise customer and that he helped them solve. In this session, Wouter will show you how to build a fully automated, scalable agent pool with zero downtime deployments, automated patching and analytics. You will learn about a range of technologies like Packer, OData, Release Gates, Azure functions, Pipeline Decorators and more. And of course Wouter will also share some of the things that went wrong and what we learned from them.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker:

Wouter de Kort works as a lead architect and consultant. He helps organizations stay on the cutting edge of software development. Wouter focuses on DevOps. He loves solving complex problems and helping other developers to grow. Wouter authored the book DevOps on the Microsoft stack and a couple of other books. Wouter is a Microsoft MVP and an ALM Ranger. You can find him on Twitter (@wouterdekort), on his blog at wouterdekort.com and at the various conferences where Wouter speaks.

- Twitter: twitter.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com
- Blog: wouterdekort.com

👉 Story Telling at the Heart of Civilization - How Event Modeling Makes Sense of Information Systems

In this talk, I go over how humans engage certain patterns in communication and how this impacts Informs Systems, the effects of Moore's Law in computing history and explain the nature of today's computing. Event Storming and Event Modeling are explorered as a more natural ways of working for humans in building systems collaboratively.

👨‍🏫 About the speaker:
Adam Dymitruk is an expert in Distributed Information Systems/Microservices with CQRS, Event Sourcing, Event Storming and Event Modelling

Over 3 decades experience in software development, information systems and architecture that defies the limitations of the industry's conventions - in the last 10 years focusing on data loss-less architectures around event streams. Top 1% of Stack Overflow contributors globally with over 6 million developers reached.

Bringing C-level management on the same path and understanding as development and others with vision, strategy and risk mitigation. Enabling start-ups to leverage open-sourcing strategies and sharing risk/TCO on non-competitive services with one another. Legacy code management, risk-management and exit strategy. Involvement with numerous groups and well connected to the industry leaders in the field of software development, architecture and modern methodologies. Introduced PAXOS to the CQRS development efforts which gave rise to a RAFT-like consensus implementation in Event Store. Contributed to Microsoft's Patterns and Practices book on CQRS.

Specialties: SOA/microservices, Core contribution to CQRS/ES, Event Storming, Distributed Architecture, DDD, BDD, TDD, CI/CD, Lean/Scrum/Kanban, Source Control Management (one of the 2 gold version control badges ever awarded on stackoverflow.com), Agile/XP/Lean principles.

- Twitter: twitter.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com