To the Pub

If you're dead on your feet and want to skip straight to the pub, from 6PM we'll be opening up the bar (see programme for location details).

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How to Break Builds and Influence People - Ordnance Survey's Ongoing Cloud Native Journey

Featuring Phil Peters and Andy Bridle

When your organisation has a lot of history, making changes to embrace new practices can be hard. Cloud adoption and DevOps can’t be successful with automation and technical tooling alone; it requires changes in how people work together and communicate. Ordnance Survey is an organisation with...

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Lightning Talk: Serverless - When Should You and When Shouldn't You?

Featuring Nicholas Shook

Serverless computing can be a great way to not think about DevOps and let IaaS providers take on the vast majority of that work. However, moving your software to serverless is not always the right answer. During this Lightning Talk Nicholas will share with you costs - both in time and money,...

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Cloud-Native Microservices with RSocket

Featuring Arsalan Farooq

Enterprises are moving to the cloud and microservices, but few are prepared for just how complex it can be in a cloud-native environment to achieve something as simple as, reliable, performant and secure, communication between services. This is changing with RSocket, an open source networking...

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Automate Kubernetes with GitOps

Featuring Bryan Boreham

Join Bryan Boreham, Director of Software Engineering at Weaveworks, as he explores the core principles of GitOps, the Cloud Native transformation, war stories, and how you too can make your life easier by automating Kubernetes using GitOps.

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Finding a Needle in a Call Stack - Intro to Distributed Tracing

Featuring Josh Michielsen

Microservices have transformed the way people think about software architecture and design. They enable developers to rapidly extend application functionality in the form of additional services, each of which can be scaled and deployed independently. Many highly successful software companies;...

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How We Broke the World Record for Computing Digits of Pi (31.4 trillion!)

Featuring Emma Haruka Iwao

Emma and her Team have calculated 31.4 trillion digits of Pi in 2019 and broke the world record in the Pi computation. The process took about four months and 200 TiB of storage. Record-breaking Pi calculations have traditionally been done on supercomputers and special-made hardware, but they did...

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Kubernetes Scalability: Federation & Cluster API

Featuring Katie Gamanji

In the past years, Kubernetes has been the nucleus of container orchestration frameworks. With the growing number of microservices in a cluster, scalability is one of the core pillars for a fault-tolerant application. Additionally, from a technological landscape standpoint, the cloud platform...

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Keynote: Quality for 'Cloud Natives': What Changes When Your Systems Are Complex And Distributed?

Featuring Sarah Wells

The complexity in complex distributed systems isn’t in the code, it’s between the services or functions. And a lot of failures are hard to predict and maybe even hard to detect.

When your system is made up of multiple microservices or a bunch of lambdas and some queues, how do you know whether it...

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Monolithic Transformation - Changing the Culture of Large Organizations, or, What To Do When Your Meatware Stinks

Featuring Michael Coté

Large organization are desperate to become "tech companies." They drool at these tech companies ability to grow and change quickly. Despite mastering agile over the past 20 years, IT as a whole is too slow and unreliable. "It's the culture," everyone says. Changing culture...

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