Back from a nice summer break, the next Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 8th September 2016. We'll be at Home Office Digital 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 Jon Shanks - building a stack/platform for the Home Office
* 7:45 - 8:00 Break
* 8:00 - 8:45 Phil Roffe - 'Ins and outs' of DevOps Culture and how the DevOps team works
* 8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry
About the Speakers:
The first talk will be by Jon Shanks, Head of Development Operations at The Home Office Digital who will be be taking us through the tech stack in use within their organisation and how devops applies to them.
The second talk will be by Phil Roffe, Lead Architect for the International Tribe in Sky Betting and Gaming. A discussion around how and why a company can adopt DevOps principles - discussing some of the history of how the industry is moving.
Venue
We'll be at Home Office Digital this month - near Park Square roundabout and aprox 10 mins walk from the train station:
Home Office Digital
Foundry House
3 Millsands
Riverside Exchange
Sheffield
S3 8NH
We're looking to tour the city over the course of the year (if you can offer space at your company/organisation/uni then let us know).
Sponsors
Home Office Digital are kindly providing venue and refreshments for this month's event.
Nabarro LLP is proud to be sponsoring Sheffield DevOps 2016. Nabarro is an international law firm with a specific sector focus on the technology and digital sectors. Ben Hendry, a partner in Nabarro’s Sheffield office said “We are passionate about supporting the growth of the Sheffield City Region. Like the Sheffield DevOps team, we want Sheffield to be the UKs next big technology hub, attracting the best tech businesses and talent from across the UK and beyond, and encouraging innovation. Supporting organisations like DevOps is a vital part of this strategy and we are very much looking forward to working with both in order to achieve our common goal.” For more information on Nabarro’s technology focus click here: www.nabarro.com
More Info
If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to www.sheffielddevops.org.uk or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.
Look forward to seeing you there!
WHEN
Thursday, 8 September 2016 from 18:30 to 21:00 (BST) - Add to Calendar
WHERE
Sheffield DevOps @ Home Office Digital - Foundry House 3 Millsands, Riverside Exchange, Sheffield, S3 8NH - View Map
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.
Just over the other side of the bridge from the Harlequin Pub/Next to Irwin Mithchell Solicitors.
