The DevOps Pay Raise: Quantifying Your Value to Move Up the Ladder
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This month we have Tom Levey, Tech Evangelist at AppDynamics, as our guest speaker. Tom's talk will be all about proving the value of all your hard work in making your website faster to your boss using tools like Chef, Puppet etc. Don't miss it!
This will be followed by several Lightning talks by.... you! Please message me if you'd like to give a 5 minute talk. Your topic could be anything web performance related, for example a tool you've recently used, an interesting project you're doing/have done/are about to do, or even a forum to bounce ideas off (or get suggestions from) the whole group.
Guest talk outline
DevOps, when done right, usually goes unnoticed. It’s only when something breaks that all eyes turn to IT. If your boss only sees you when the app is down, however, that’s not really doing your career any favours. In this session we’ll talk about how to prove your value to the organisation by looking at the positive side – that is, how much money you’ve saved your company. We’ll take a look at how you can use tools like Chef, Puppet, Sensu and Logstash to quantify your value to your company. After this session, you’ll be able to walk into a meeting with your boss ready to talk about your value to the company (and to ask for a raise).
Guest speaker bio
Tom Levey is a Tech Evangelist at AppDynamics. Tom is responsible for promoting best practices of application performance management (APM) for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual and physical environments. Tom has spent 6 years helping organisations to build robust APM technology strategies and has the scars to show for it. He received his BSC in Computer Science and after working as a Java application developer he decided someone really needed to help the world optimise the performance of their applications!
The Need for Speed (Michael Allen, CTO of APM, Compuware)
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In an evolving business world, organisations are focused on delivering fast time-to-value while ensuring an exceptional customer experience. Smartphones, tablets, and multiple browsers, coupled with native mobile applications, cloud computing and virtualisation, are amongst the disruptive technologies making it increasingly difficult to manage web and enterprise application performance. These evolving dynamics are creating a new challenge for both enterprises and service providers as their applications are now being delivered across an ecosystem that relies on many supporting business partners. Michael will discuss the best practises and approaches for application performance delivery from the customer perspective, from the first to last mile.
Speaker: Michael Allen (CTO of APM EMEA, Compuware)
Michael Allen has been working in the IT industry for 20 years, the last 16 with Compuware. Michael has held many commercial, technical and leadership management positions at Compuware working within Compuware's Application Performance Management (APM) business unit. Today he is EMEA Vice President & CTO of APM Solutions at Compuware and regarded as a key visionary in the performance management market.
Meet with other web site administrators, developers, designers and business people who are interested in making their sites faster to get a better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more revenue.
We aim to provide a place for people to share, discuss and present ideas on how they approach performance from technical, organisational and business perspectives. Drinks are snacks are provided, plus regular freebies from our sponsors.
New!Title changed:Manchester Web Performance GroupDescription changed:Meet with other web site administrators, developers, designers and business people who are interested in making their sites faster to get a better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more revenue.