Effective DevOps for Leaders, Edinburgh: free seminar
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Effective DevOps is a targeted seminar for leaders involved with modern web-based software systems.
We cover:
-What is DevOps? Dispelling some industry myths.
-Why DevOps? The factors driving DevOps adoption.
-How DevOps can benefit your organisation.
-Practical changes for your organisation to take advantage of DevOps.
-How to overcome potential blockers for DevOps.
As a CIO/CTO, Head of Commercial, Product Director, Head of Software Development, Head of IT, or Development Manager, you will benefit from the Effective DevOps seminar by gaining an increased understanding of why and how DevOps can help your organisation through rapid but safe delivery cycles.
'Cloud' changes the way we must design, deliver, and operate our software systems. DevOps is a set of practices that has a arisen from the need for Software Development and IT Operations teams to collaborate more closely in order to deliver and operate modern software systems effectively at high rates of change.
DevOps requires significant evolution of both technologies and teams in order to be successful; the Effective DevOps seminar provides a solid grounding in the organisational and technological changes that leaders are required to make for a successful DevOps adoption.
Facilitators
Matthew Skelton
Matthew Skelton has been building and operating non-trivial software systems since 1998 in many industry sectors. With significant software architecture experience, he brings a systems thinking approach to software delivery. He has specific expertise in Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and software operability, and is a regular speaker at tech community events and conferences.
Rob Thatcher
Rob Thatcher has substantial experience of building and running on-premise, hosted, and cloud-based infrastructures. With Director-level experience in the City of London, he specialises in low-latency, high speed computer infrastructure.
For more info, please contact us at info@skeltonthatcher.com or 020 8242 4103.
Join us for this half day tutorial, an guide to getting started with Continuous Delivery (CD). Taken from the sold out QCon London 2015 tutorial 'Practical and Sustainable Continuous Delivery', this tutorial is a condensed version of the full day tutorial, and will introduce key concepts and show you how to get started with your journey towards CD.
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery involves much more than a deployment pipeline pushing applications to a set of cloud servers. In this tutorial, attendees will learn about the ‘walking skeleton’ deployment pipeline approach, Vagrant with ElasticSearch/LogStash/Kibana (ELK) for application debugging in development, how and when to use Semantic Versioning (SemVer) for packages, and techniques for enhancing the operability of software systems.
We will also explore some of the ‘bigger picture’ aspects of Continuous Delivery that ultimately determine whether a programme of work to adopt CD within an organisation will succeed or fail: Conway’s Law, team topologies, value stream mapping, test strategy, the effect of staff incentives, how to choose tools to encourage collaboration, and the relationship between Agile and IT service management (ITSM) methodologies.
Audience
This tutorial is for practitioners and managers within organisations heading towards Continuous Delivery who are looking for practical approaches and knowledge which can be taken back to their own organisations.
Facilitator:
Matthew Skelton
Matthew Skelton has been building and operating non-trivial software systems since 1998 in many industry sectors. With significant software architecture experience, he brings a systems thinking approach to software delivery. He has specific expertise in Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and software operability, has helped numerous organisations adopt Continuous Delivery, he is a regular speaker at tech community events and is currently co-writing a book on Continuous Delivery for Databases.
For more info, please contact us at info@skeltonthatcher.com or 020 8242 4103.
