Back for our last event before taking a summer break, the next Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 14th July 2016. We'll be at Nabarro LLP from
* 6:30pm onwards for an evening of devops discussion:
* 6:30 - 7:00 Doors open and drinks/food provided
* 7:00 - 7:05 Welcome talk
* 7:05 - 7:45 Alastair Smith - "DevOps Thinking and the Lean Six Sigma Toolbox!"
* 7:45 - 8:00 Break
* 8:00 - 8:45 Paul Brabban - "An Introduction to Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda"
* 8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry
About the Speakers:
The first talk will be by Alastair Smith, a Performance and Service Manager at Learndirect. Alastair has a background in performance and capacity, monitoring, testing and lean six-sigma process improvement.
"In this talk we'll be sharpening a few of the tools in our Lean Six Sigma toolbox and shaping our DevOps thinking around continual process improvement.
As well as examining the softer side of tooling, we'll be taking a brief look at the continuous delivery pipeline and the vast array of tools out there to 'hopefully' make our life a little easier.
So, watch out Muda, we're tooled up and coming to get you!"
If you'd like to share your thoughts before attending the talk, then please feel free to get in touch using this Survey Monkey link. I'll incorporate your feedback into the talk."
The second talk will be by Paul Brabban, a Data Engineer for Sky Betting & Gaming's International division. Paul has been implementing data processing pipelines using Lambda on AWS and in his talk he will take us through the concepts of serverless architecture and his experience of using the platform in the real world.
More details: sheffielddevops.org.uk
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk
About SheffieldDevops
The devops group in Sheffield has been founded to provide a forum for discussion on:
* Adoption of software development lifecycle practices into operations and system administration.
* Creating collaborative working culture/environment for developers and operations teams.
* Applying agile principles in an environment dominated by changes, firefighting and reluctance to change.
* Automation - version control, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, deployment and monitoring.
* Metrics - collection of system/application/business/build/SLM metrics and the subsequent reporting and sharing.
* Technology - cool new tools from clusters to containers, cloud solutions, paas, iaas, visualization, monitoring and dashboards - just so long as they help create the devops culture.
* Adoption of Lean principles to improve the flow of work through an organisation.
We plan to meet on the second Thursday of each month in central Sheffield, we’ll have a couple of talks on the above subject areas and then head to a nearby public house to continue the discussion in an more informal manner.
We’re on the look out for speakers, so if you (or someone you know) have a passion for any of the above topics and have something to share then please get in touch via email or twitter.
The group has been created thanks to the efforts of great people on the Sheffield Digital slack channel for the digital community in Sheffield - if you want to lend a hand in running the group or have any ideas to make it bigger and better then please get in touch.
At Nabarro LLP
You will need to sign in at reception on arrival.
