This meet up we have Oli Wood and Hannah Foxwell (Pivotal). Talk details still to be confirmed
Doors Open 6.30
Doors Close 7.00
Oli Wood 7.00
Hannah Foxwell 8.00
The Benefits of Remote Collaboration - Oli Wood
A couple of years ago a simple problem landed on my desk which turned into a monster and I discovered the real value in working with somebody else remotely to solve it.
Oli Wood spends most of his time helping to stabalise and improve systems deployed into cloud hosted environments having done so for the last 14 years or so for companies ranging from 2 person start ups to government systems (before they got good). He spends his time working on infrastructure and deployment systems so nobody notices he’s a terrible developer. In January he moved from an architecture role to leading a operational team with a strong focus on automation.
Resilient Systems Require Resilient People - Hannah Foxwell
Building resilient systems is what we do and we do it well, but how much time do we spend working on our own personal resilience? In the ever changing world of technology, how do we ensure we are flexible, adaptable and resilient in the face of challenges and setbacks?
In this talk we’ll look at ways in which we can improve the resilience of our organisations, our teams and ourselves. Because if your team isn’t ready for change, your platform isn’t either.
This meet up we have Ross McFadyen (Digirati) and Hannah Foxwell (Pivotal).
Doors Open 6.30
Doors Close 7.00
Ross McFadyen 7.00
Hannah Foxwell 8.00
Scaling, Tuning and Maintaining the Monolith (MySQL – The Database we all love … to hate) by Ross McFadyen
During this talk we'll take an intricate deep dive into MySQL in production and development and the problems that arise when applications need to scale.
In a world where startups grow to millions of users overnight and the Enterprise demands a tried and tested database we'll start by examining MySQL's relevance in a competitive marketplace where NoSQL and other relational databases claim to have it covered.
It can often be difficult to identify exactly where the bottleneck lies and what the next move should be; we'll discuss best practices for identifying the bottlenecks and the appropriate remedies from scaling vertically and horizontally to clustering and sharding. We'll also discuss some of the issues that come with MySQL at scale and how we can maintain it with minimal downtime whilst still performing complex tasks.
Ross McFadyen currently works as Technical Lead and Solution Architect at Digirati; A company focussed on Digital strategy, design, integration and engineering services for the public and private sector. A self confessed evangelist, Ross has an extensive career working with MySQL for a multitude of companies from start-ups to multinational corporations and in a range of sectors from e-commerce to large scale video processing grids spanning hundred's of servers and covering multiple continents.
Resilient Systems Require Resilient People - Hannah Foxwell
Building resilient systems is what we do and we do it well, but how much time do we spend working on our own personal resilience? In the ever changing world of technology, how do we ensure we are flexible, adaptable and resilient in the face of challenges and setbacks?
In this talk we’ll look at ways in which we can improve the resilience of our organisations, our teams and ourselves. Because if your team isn’t ready for change, your platform isn’t either.
