Open Tech Calendar

Talk by David Lockwood - Redis: when a scalable system stops scaling

Our event is generously hosted by Sky Betting and Gaming, with a talk starting at 18:30.

18:00: Doors open

18:30 – 19:15: David Lockwood - Redis: when a scalable system stops scaling

19:15: Socialising

Speaker:

David is a Lead Engineer at Tutorful, writing code and solving problems to help make 1:1 tuition accessible to everybody.

He is particularly passionate about code reviews, how development teams work, CSS (don’t judge, it’s just fun!), good automated tests, and a nice abstraction.

When not writing code or in a meeting, he will be playing (yet another) round of Dragonwood with his children or driving them to a dance class.

- When you have designed and built a distributed, scalable application and an alarm fires telling you that something that shouldn’t be a problem is a problem… what do you do?
- A journey across the stack, from alert to resolution, via all the dead ends. Stops will be made in AWS, Redis and at a smattering of dashboards.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-july-2022-tickets-368830039577

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Thu 14th Jul 2022 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops (Virtual)

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place online, please leave your questions for our speakers as comments on the stream, and we will showcase them at the end.

Our virtual event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment.

We’re striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct. Please drop us a message on Twitter @sheffieldDevops if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule
18:00: Live stream starts

18:15 - 19:00: Andy Burgin with Beyond Dashboards - Visualising Complex Systems

19:00 - 19:15: Break

19:15 - 20:00: Matt Jarvis with Introducing KUDO - Kubernetes Operators the Easy Way

About the Speakers

Andy Burgin
Andy is Lead Platform Engineer at Sky Betting and Gaming. He considers himself a Kubernetes and Hadoop fettler, spending a far too much of his spare time making Raspberry Pis do things they shouldn’t. He was a small part of the organising team for DevOpsDays London 2019 and has been running the Devops meetup in Leeds for 6 years hosting over 40 events. He’s attended and spoke at a bunch of DevOps conferences and in his own words is ‘an all round DevOps nuisance’.

Beyond Dashboards - Visualising Complex Systems

There are many ways to collect and visualise metrics from Kubernetes clusters. Many of us collect metrics and visualise them on dashboards. The plethora of graphs and charts enable us to quickly spot anomalies with workload or cluster performance. However do we really understand the workloads that run on our clusters? this can be a challenge particularly in a multi-tenant environment.

This session will demonstrate ways to “see” the workloads running on clusters, helping to better understand workloads through visualisation, anomaly identification and exploratory analysis. Using tools such as graph databases and visualisation tools, you’ll learn how they can help you explore and understand cluster workload topology usage. Sharing examples of how these tools have identified issues and how they can help engage with tenants to share best practices and ultimately improve cluster performance.

Matt Jarvis
Matt Jarvis is Senior Director of Community and Evangelism at D2iQ. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences and meetups across the world, including MesosCon, Open Infrastructure Summit and All Things Open.

Introducing KUDO - Kubernetes Operators the Easy Way

Kubernetes Operators are the next phase of the journey towards automating complex applications in containers. The Kudo project introduces an easy way to build Kubernetes operators using declarative YAML. Many Operators that exist today handle initial deployment, but they don’t provide automation for tasks like binary upgrades, configuration updates, and failure recovery. Implementing a production-grade controller for a complex workload typically requires thousands of lines of code and many months of development. As a result, the quality of operators that are available today varies. The Kudo project provides a universal operator to enable automated creation of operators for Kubernetes, in most cases just using YAML. In this talk, I’ll introduce the Kudo project, and demo the creation of a Kubernetes operator using Kudo.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-july-2020-virtual-tickets-111796255610

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Thu 9th Jul 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops November 2019

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place at Kelham Island Musem on Thursday 14 November 2019 at 6pm.

Our event is generously hosted by our sponsors Affecto Recruitment with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

We're striving for Sheffield Devops to be an inclusive event that is open to all. We operate a Code of Conduct and are happy to meet & greet people on arrival. Please drop us a message on Twitter if you have any queries or would just like a chat ahead of the event.

Schedule

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open

6:30 - 7:15: Lucy Davinhart (Automation Engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming)

"How We Accelerated Our Vault Adoption With Terraform"

7:15 - 7:30: Break

7:30 - 8:15: Manjit Sagoo (Chief Architect – IRIS Software Group)

"Something old, something new; Integrating legacy desktop systems with a modern AWS Cloud platform"


About the Speakers

How We Accelerated Our Vault Adoption With Terraform

"When we first started with Vault for secret management, we were the all powerful admins doing everything manually. This was an audit nightmare, and with increasingly more users, our workload became unmanageable. We could not let that stand. We have the word "Automation" in our job titles, after all. In this talk, I will outline how we started chipping away at the manual processes, keeping track of changes over time, and automating parts of our configuration. And I will show you where we are today, with Pull Requests, ChatOps, and Terraform. While our specific pipeline is not going to be the best for everyone, I hope you come away from this talk with ideas for how to manage your own Vault clusters.

Lucy Davinhart is an automation engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming, meaning their job is to maintain internal platforms and services (e.g. Vault), finding ways to do things manually as infrequently as possible, and supporting their internal customers using some of the HashiCorp toolset. Lucy is a non-binary trans woman. In their spare time, when not catching up on Netflix, they fiddle around with silly coding projects, sometimes live on the Internet where everyone can see their typos."

Something old, something new; Integrating legacy desktop systems with a modern AWS Cloud platform

"IRIS Software Group is the UK’s largest privately held software company serving over 650,000 SMEs, 21,000 accountancy firms and over 11,000 schools through our 16 office locations across the country. 12 months ago we embarked on an ambitious journey to modernise the IRIS software portfolio through a cloud based platform support a broad range of microservices. This talk will explore some of the challenges in lifting this project off paper and into the cloud!"

https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-november-2019-tickets-80017226679

Thu 14th Nov 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 14th Nov 2019 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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https://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/code-of-conduct/

Sheffield Devops - June 2018 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 14th June and is generously sponsored and hosted by CMS, with food and beers, wines and soft drinks provided on arrival.

Event opens at 6pm for food and drinks, with the first talk starting at 6:30pm.

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Lightning talks from various people
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Agile Architecture - Andy Butcher
About the Speakers

The first session will be a series of lightning talks from Oliver Leaver-Smith, Paul Brabban, James Cutts and anyone else that fancies a slot. Just let us know in advance.

Lightning talks will be on the topics of:

Storing Secrets in DNS
Opinionated CI and CD with Heroku
Serverless


The second talk will be by Andy Butcher discussing Agile Architecture.

How can Architecture be Agile?
Surely Architecture is about designing the big picture, and Agile is about incrementally building things as you go along? How can these two things be reconciled?

And what has Architecture got to do with DevOps? The answer: Everything.

No TOGAF here!
In this talk I'll describe how Architecture can be done locally, and at scale, in a way that's lightweight, responsive, evolving, and continuous.

And crucially, we'll see why Architecture is about Operations. A software component typically takes only weeks or months to build, but often runs for several years. We need a new kind of Architecture that lives and breathes operational concerns - building simple, modular things that are easily evolvable and easily disposable.

Finally, I hope to dispel the myth once and for all that there's any conflict between Architecture and Agile, with practical advice and examples of how and why it works.

Venue

CMS LLP
1 South Quay
Victoria Quays
Sheffield
S2 5SY

Parking is available... just buzz in at the barriers and say you're here for the Sheffield DevOps event.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Current+Location/53.384683,-1.460541

Sponsors

CMS

CMS is proud to be a long term sponsor of Sheffield Devops. CMS is an international law firm with a specific sector focus on the technology and digital sectors. Ben Hendry, a partner in CMS'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 Sheffield 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 CMS's technology focus click here:
http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/
https://cms.law/en/jurisdiction/global-reach/Europe/United-Kingdom/CMS-CMNO/TMT-Technology-Media-Telecommunications



More Info

If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.Look forward to seeing you there!

Code of Conduct: http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-june-2018-meetup-tickets-46160928580

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-june-2018-meetup-tickets-46160928580

Thu 14th Jun 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

Sheffield Devops (theme: Data and DBA) - November 2017 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops event takes place on Thursday 9th November and is generously sponsored and hosted by CMS, with sandwiches, nibbles and beers, wines and soft drinks provided on arrival.
Last month was had a testers theme - this month a data and DBA theme.
We're continuing the earlier starts of 6pm food, 6:30pm first talk. (please let us know if you can't make this time as we're open to change and tweak to help accommodate where we can)

6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Craig Stewart - "Our journey from Redis 2 to Redis 3 at scale - while not taking the site down!"
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Alex Yates - DevOps 101 for data professionals – how your jobs will change

About the Speakers
Hot on the heels of his blogpost on the same topic being picked up by both WebOps Weekly and NoSQL Weekly, the first talk will be by Craig Stewart:
"Our journey from Redis 2 to Redis 3 at scale - while not taking the site down!"
We have recently embarked upon a process of upgrading our Redis servers, to enable the use of the native clustering features available from Redis 3.2. This talk explains why we’re using clustering, what problems we have encountered along the way, and what our solutions have been while trying to support more than 20,000 people logging in within a single minute.

The second talk will be by Alex Yates:
"DevOps 101 for data professionals – how your jobs will change"
In 2009 John Allspaw and Paul Hammond changed the way millions of people would think about
software delivery for years to come. DevOps was born.
In 2013 Kenny Gorman declared “The DBA is Dead”. (I don’t believe that, but others do.)
What is DevOps? Where did it come from? How do data folk stay relevant?

Venue
CMS LLP
1 South Quay
Victoria Quays
Sheffield
S2 5SY
Parking is available... just buzz in at the barriers and say you're here for the Sheffield DevOps event.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Current+Location/53.384683,-1.460541
Sponsors
CMS (formally Nabarro LLP)
CMS is proud to be a long term sponsor of Sheffield Devops. CMS is an international law firm with a specific sector focus on the technology and digital sectors. Ben Hendry, a partner in CMS'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 Sheffield 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 CMS's technology focus click here:
http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/
https://cms.law/en/jurisdiction/global-reach/Europe/United-Kingdom/CMS-CMNO/TMT-Technology-Media-Telecommunications

More Info
If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.Look forward to seeing you there!

http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-theme-data-and-dba-november-2017-meetup-tickets-39300081602

Thu 9th Nov 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Thu 9th Nov 2017 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/166824850299/code-of-conduct

Sheffield Devops - September 2017 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops Meetup takes place on Thursday 14th September and is generously sponsored by Affecto. Hosting will be at Couch on Campo Lane, with refreshments on arrival.

NOTE: Earlier start this month - 6pm food, 6:30pm first talk...
6:00 - 6:30: Doors open
6:30 - 7:15: Bobby Devaux - Using Vault with OpenShift
7:15 - 7:30: Break
7:30 - 8:15: Rory Gibson - DevOps for a Dummy

About the Speakers
The first talk will be by Bobby Devaux - Using Kubernetes Secrets within OpenShift
Bobby delivered a great container talk for us in the Spring of this year and now he's back, this time focusing on using Secrets within the OpenShift platform.

The second talk will be by Rory Gibson, a developer, sometime CTO, consultant and, recently, startup founder.
For the last 9 months Rory has been splitting his time between consulting on agile and DevOps adoption in the public sector, and starting a side project / startup called CTX, a search product for digital teams that helps them get control of their data in cloud based tools ( https://getctx.io )
The talk is entitled "DevOps for a Dummy" and will be a case study in applying the basics of the techniques we know and love in a greenfield startup environment with a very small team (1 person!).
Expect to hear about
- Ansible
- Simple and effective Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery setups
- Choosing a cloud provider without just plumping for AWS as the easy option
- Security in the cloud when you're not on AWS.
- Quick, dirty and effective monitoring and alerting

Venue
Couch
29–31 Campo Lane
Sheffield
S1 2EG
0114 2756361

Sponsors
Affecto Recruitment
This month we are proudly sponsored by Affecto Recruitment
At Affecto Recruitment, our consultants are dedicated to supporting clients and candidates across Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire’s booming digital and technology sector.
Part of what drives us is our commitment to promoting just that, whilst tackling what we believe is a ‘perception only’ talent shortage in the area, and it’s this approach that has helped us establish an unrivalled reputation for connecting exceptional individuals with exceptional organisations.
Investing heavily in our own ongoing development, we consider ourselves to be ‘in the know’ when it comes to the latest technological advances. Insight that means the businesses we partner with can rely on us for informed market intelligence in talent requirements, as well as wider issues that could impact their organisation.
CMS (formally Nabarro LLP)
CMS is proud to be a long term sponsor of Sheffield Devops. CMS is an international law firm with a specific sector focus on the technology and digital sectors. Ben Hendry, a partner in CMS'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 Sheffield 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 CMS's technology focus click here:
http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/
https://cms.law/en/jurisdiction/global-reach/Europe/United-Kingdom/CMS-CMNO/TMT-Technology-Media-Telecommunications

More Info
If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.Look forward to seeing you there!
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-september-2017-meetup-tickets-37249351814

Thu 14th Sep 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops - July 2017 Meetup

The next Sheffield Devops Meetup takes place on Thursday 13th July and is generously hosted by our long term sponsors at CMS Law (formerly Nabarro). Tickets are available over at Eventbrite ( https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-july-2017-meetup-tickets-35722359539 )

6:30 - 7:00: Doors open
7:00 - 7:05: Welcome talk
7:05 - 7:45: Dan Finneran - “Docker LinuxKit and InfraKit"
7:45 - 8:00: Break
8:00 - 8:45: Matthew Skelton - “How and Why to Design your Teams for Modern Software Systems”
About the Speakers

The first talk will be by Dan FInneran(@thebsdbox/thebsdbox.co.uk/), EMEA Software Defined Solutions Architect for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. His current role primarily focuses on integrations between HPE products and open source technologies such as Chef and Docker, and in this talk he will cover the two new projects from Docker:

“Docker LinuxKit and InfraKit"

It will feature examples and demonstrations of:

- Building an Operating System and Applications as code
- Packaging that Operating System and uploading to on-prem or to the cloud
- Deploying, Scaling, Healing and Destroying instances of that new OS/App.

The second talk will be by Matthew Skelton from Skelton Thatcher Consulting.

Matthew Skelton has been building, deploying, and operating commercial software systems since 1998. Co-founder and Principal Consultant at Skelton Thatcher Consulting (http://skeltonthatcher.com/), he specialises in helping organisations to adopt and sustain good practices for building and operating software systems: Continuous Delivery, DevOps, aspects of ITIL, and software operability.

Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016) and Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016).

How and Why to Design your Teams for Modern Software Systems.

For effective, modern, cloud-connected software systems we need to organise our teams in certain ways. Taking account of Conway’s Law, we look to match the team structures to the required software architecture, enabling or restricting communication and collaboration for the best outcomes.

This talk will cover the basics of organisation design, exploring a selection of key team topologies and how and when to use them in order to make the development and operation of your software systems as effective as possible. The talk is based on experience helping companies around the world with the design of their teams.

Workshop: Organisation Design for Effective Software Systems – Weds 27 September, London - https://ti.to/skelton-thatcher-consulting/organisation-design-workshop-sept-2017 - use DEVOPS25 for 25% discount

Venue

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
1 South Quay
Victoria Quays
Sheffield
S2 5SY

Sponsors

CMS (formally Nabarro LLP)

CMS (formally Nabarro LLP) is proud to be a long term sponsor of Sheffield Devops. CMS is an international law firm with a specific sector focus on the technology and digital sectors. Ben Hendry, a partner in CMS’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 Sheffield 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 CMS’s technology focus click here:
http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/
https://cms.law/en/jurisdiction/global-reach/Europe/United-Kingdom/CMS-CMNO/TMT-Technology-Media-Telecommunications

More Info

If you’d like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.Look forward to seeing you there!

http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-july-2017-meetup-tickets-35722359539

Thu 13th Jul 2017 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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May meet-up

Alexandra Carter/Marcus Robinson - “Let’s put this legacy solution into Docker Containers on Windows” said Callcredit. This is what happened…

Ramen Sen - Techniques in DevOps adoption and embedding culture at NHS Digital/HSCIC. What we achieved, how we got there, and the issues we faced.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-may-2017-meetup-tickets-34047688553

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Sheffield Devops - March 9th

The next Sheffield Devops Meetup is hosted by Sky Betting and Gaming with a "Tech Talk" theme, showing the power of tooling available to support the use of Infrastructure-as-Code. It will take place on Thursday the 9th March 2017 at Sky Betting and Gaming from 6:30pm onwards for an evening of devops discussion. As Sky Betting and Gaming will be hosting and sponsoring the evening, they will offer refreshments on arrival.
6:30 - 7:00 Doors open
7:00 - 7:05 Welcome talk
7:05 - 7:45 Infrastructure-as-Code in AWS with CloudFormation - Paul Brabban
7:45 - 8:00 Break
8:00 - 8:45 Scaling Docker Swarm for Production with Terraform - Bobby Devaux
8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry

About the Speakers
The first talk will be by Paul Brabban from Sky Betting and Gaming:
An introduction to Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation, the infrastructure templating system provided by AWS.
Sky Betting and Gaming International's Data Platform is completely provisioned using CloudFormation, the Infrastructure as Code solution provided by AWS. This talk will introduce you to CloudFormation before diving into the more advanced features, tips and tricks that helped us overcome the challenges we've faced.

The second talk will be by Bobby DeVeaux from UK Cloud, who will be presenting an overview of his most recent project; building a production-ready fully-scalable Docker Swarm using Terraform & Packer on OpenStack.
Bobby is a Consultant DevOps Engineer who currently works with UK Cloud’s clients to help them understand DevOps, how to improve their automation and migrate to a cloud-native environment. He has over 20 years experience working with the web and has most recently been working with public sector clients on their latest projects.

Venue
Sky Betting and Gaming
Electric Works (in the downstairs Conference Room)
Sheffield Digital Campus
Sheffield
S1 2BJ
https://www.skybetcareers.com/our-locations
Sponsors
Sky Betting and Gaming
Nabarro LLP is proud to be sponsoring Sheffield Devops. 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 Sheffield 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: http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/

More Info
If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.Look forward to seeing you there!

http://sheffielddevops.org.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2017-meetup-tickets-32147630428

Thu 9th Mar 2017 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops - September 2016 Meetup

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: http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/

More Info
If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://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

http://sheffielddevops.org.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-september-2016-meetup-tickets-27406566779

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Sheffield Devops - July 2016 Meetup

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.

http://sheffielddevops.org.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-july-2016-meetup-tickets-26347842105

Thu 14th Jul 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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June 2016 Meetup

une 2016 Meetup

Back by popular demand, the next Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 9th June 2016 and is kindly sponsored and hosted by G2G3 Digital.

We'll be at the G2G3 Digital's office over at Velocity House 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 Andy Burgin - "Devops Lean Coffee Style"
7:45 - 8:00 Break
8:00 - 8:45 Glen Mailer - "Have you heard of the 12 factors?"
8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry

About the Sessions:

Following last months discussion on the role of test environments and testing within Devops, we thought we'd assemble a small but perfectly formed panel to talk about several principles and issues in the Devops space. The panel will be made up of Glen Mailer, Adam Wilbraham, a guest from G2G3 Digital and an eager volunteer on the night...

We'll be asking the panel to introduce topics, then based on the audiences' interest discuss each one in a timebox before moving on to the next topic (or not) in a Lean Coffee style discussion. Questions, opinions or observations from the audience are very much encouraged, so please be prepared to share your thoughts with the crowd.

The discussion will be chaired by our old friend and self confessed Devops Bore Andy Burgin.

Alongside this, headlining will be by Glen Mailer, with Have you heard of the 12 factors?

"These set of simple principles were originally written up by engineers at heroku in 2011, writing software that follows them is a great way to avoid lock-in by writing scalable independent services that are easy to apply devops-style thinking and processes to. I think anyone involved in designing, writing or deploying software should at least be aware of them, and if you’re not following any of them: know why. I’ll walk us all through what the principles are, and why they’re useful."

http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/145217819304/sheffield-devops-june-2016-meetup

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-june-2016-meetup-tickets-25787311543

Thu 9th Jun 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 9th Jun 2016 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops - April 2016 Meetup

Back by popular demand, the next Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 14th April 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 Marcus Robinson: Automated deployment of Infrastructure to Microsoft Azure
· 7:45 - 8:00 Break
· 8:00 - 8:45 Claire Agutter: Putting the Ops in DevOps – using IT service management to gather feedback and improve flow
· 8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry

About the Speakers:

The first talk will be by Marcus Robinson, a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft. In this talk he will be discussing how inconsistencies in infrastructure configuration in the release pipeline can lead to unforeseen issues. In this demonstration filled session we will discuss why a consistent infrastructure environment is vital in enabling continuous delivery and reducing unplanned work.
We will focus on three key DevOps practices:

· Infrastructure as Code
· Configuration Management
· Release Management

Which will be demonstrated using:
· Azure Resource Manager Templates
· PowerShell Desired State Configuration and Azure Automation DSC
· Visual Studio Team Services Release Management

The second talk will be by Claire Agutter, discussing how DevOps and ITIL can work together. As DevOps gets more popular and delivers measurable results, traditional IT service management organisations are starting to look at it more closely. How can DevOps and ITIL work together? How does agile thinking affect traditional IT service management areas like change management, the help desk and IT support? And can ITIL contribute to DevOps? In this presentation, Claire Agutter will discuss how enterprise organisations can use their existing IT service management processes in a more agile way, and give attendees some takeaways to consider for their own IT organisation.

Speaker bio: Claire Agutter is the director of ITSM Zone, providers of high quality e-learning for IT professionals. Claire uses her background in service management operations and consultancy to blend old and new best practice to give organizations the toolkit they need to deliver business value. From ITIL to DevOps, BRM and Agile Service Management, Claire believes in sharing knowledge and experience between organizations and hosts the popular ITSM Crowd hangouts that provide practical advice to professionals around the world.

Venue

We'll be at Nabarro LLP this month - near Park Square roundabout and aprox 10 mins walk from the train station:

Nabarro LLP
1 South Quay
Victoria Quays
Sheffield
S2 5SY

(Parking is available - just press the buzzer at the barrier and say you're here for the Devops event)

http://sheffielddevops.org.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-april-2016-meetup-tickets-24316374932

Thu 14th Apr 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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Back by popular demand, the second Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 10th March 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 Simon Fisher - Cooking up a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Chef
* 7:45 - 8:00 Break
* 8:00 - 8:45 Mark Crossfield - "What we learned whilst handing control of deployments to developers at Auto Trader”
* 8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry

About the Speakers:

The first talk will be by Simon Fisher, a Solution Architect for Chef. In this talk he will be demonstrating how Chef capabilities can enable Continuous Delivery. Building on the solid foundation and success of open source Chef, Simon will demonstrate some of the broader product set that incorporates new features around delivery pipelines and compliance. This session is aimed at all levels, from those who haven’t heard of Chef to seasoned professionals and will incorporate a demo of the products.

The second talk will be by Mark Crossfield, an organiser of DevOps Manchester, who will be sharing some experiences of "What we learned whilst handing control of deployments to developers at Auto Trader”. In 2015 Auto Trader reached a milestone in their release automation journey by handing over control of application deployments to delivery squads.

This was the culmination of a nine month project, two years of loose discussion and years of previous automation - but the journey does not end there. We'll cover the context in which the project was carried out, the approach was taken & what was learned along the way. This talk is intended to appeal to all levels of technical knowledge.

Venue

We'll be at Nabarro LLP this month - near Park Square roundabout and aprox 10 mins walk from the train station:

Nabarro LLP
1 South Quay
Victoria Quays
Sheffield
S2 5SY

(Parking is available - just press the buzzer at the barrier and say you're here for the Devops event)

http://www.nabarro.com/contact/

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

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: http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/

More Info

If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.
Look forward to seeing you there!

WHEN: Thursday, 10 March 2016 from 18:30 to 21:00 (GMT) - Add to Calendar

WHERE: Sheffield DevOps @ Nabarro LLP - 1 Victoria Quays Sheffield, South Yorkshire S2 5SY GB - View Map

Sheffield Devops - March 2015

Back by popular demand, the second Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 10th March 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 Hands-On DevOps
* 7:45 - 8:00 Break
* 8:00 - 8:45 Mark Crossfield - "What we learned whilst handing control of deployments to developers at Auto Trader”
* 8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry

About the Speakers:
Mark Crossfield, an organiser of DevOps Manchester, will be sharing some experiences of "What we learned whilst handing control of deployments to developers at Auto Trader”. In 2015 Auto Trader reached a milestone in their release automation journey by handing over control of application deployments to delivery squads.

This was the culmination of a nine month project, two years of loose discussion and years of previous automation - but the journey does not end there. We'll cover the context in which the project was carried out, the approach was taken & what was learned along the way. This talk is intended to appeal to all levels of technical knowledge.

There will also be a technical DevOps session - currently in planning and details will be added over the next few days.
Venue

We'll be at Nabarro LLP this month - near Park Square roundabout and aprox 10 mins walk from the train station:

Nabarro LLP
1 South Quay
Victoria Quays
Sheffield
S2 5SY

(Parking is available - just press the buzzer at the barrier and say you're here for the Devops event)

http://www.nabarro.com/contact/

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

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: http://www.nabarro.com/services/sectors/technology/

More Info

If you'd like to find out more about Sheffield Devops then head to http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/ or talk to us on twitter @sheffieldDevops.
Look forward to seeing you there!

WHEN: Thursday, 10 March 2016 from 18:30 to 21:00 (GMT) - Add to Calendar

WHERE: Sheffield DevOps @ Nabarro LLP - 1 Victoria Quays Sheffield, South Yorkshire S2 5SY GB - View Map

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-march-2016-meetup-tickets-22170966959?aff=es2

Thu 10th Mar 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

SheffieldDevops - March 2015

Following on from the success of our first event in February we're having another get together, this time at the home of our sponsors Nabarro LLC who are based near Ponds Forge.

We're confirming the final details but food & drink will be provided upon arrival. Speakers are currently being confirmed but we'll be running a similar format to last time with formal proceedings starting at 7pm and looking to move on to a local public house at 9pm.

Further details will be posted along with the Eventbrite link in the coming days.

http://www.sheffieldevops.org.uk

Thu 10th Mar 2016 6:15pm (Europe/London)

Thu 10th Mar 2016 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Sheffield Devops - February 2016 Meetup

Roll up, roll up, the first Sheffield Devops Meetup is taking place on Thursday the 11th February 2016. We’ll be at Union Street from 6:30pm onwards for an evening of devops discussion:

6:30 - 7:00 Doors open
7:00 - 7:15 Welcome talk
7:15 - 7:45 Robert Ashton - An Introduction to DevOps in Microsoft Azure
7:45 - 8:00 Break
8:00 - 8:45 Andy Burgin - Everything you ever wanted to know about Devops but were afraid to ask
8:45 onwards - to a local hostelry

On the night we’ll have two great talks, firstly Robert Ashton will be sharing some hands-on experiences of deploying and managing services in Microsoft Azure. We’ll then be joined by Andy Burgin from Leeds Devops who will be explaining what Devops is and where it came from, covering LEAN and CAMS definitions he’ll explain why the Austin Allegro has more to do with devops than any of the latest and greatest technologies and tools.

http://www.sheffielddevops.org.uk/post/138477014264/meetup-thursday-11th-february-2016-at-union

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-devops-february-2016-meetup-tickets-21176097277

Thu 11th Feb 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 11th Feb 2016 8:45pm (Europe/London)

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