DevOps Exchange - February

Join us for our first DOXMAN event of the year on Thursday 2nd February, hosted by digital transformation and engineering consultancy Infinity Works, in the heart of Manchester.

Speakers? We have a great line-up for you. For this event, our hosts Infinity Works will take the stage, joined by founder of the Liverpool AWS Meetup group, Paul Gledhill and finally, AWS.

This event will start at 6:30pm, a little earlier than previous events. The usual format will be followed, with 2 x 20 minute talks, then refreshments and then finally our 3rd talk of the evening. This will then be followed by the usual continued discussion about all things DevOps! Doors open at 6:00pm and the talks will start at 6:30pm sharp.

If you are interested in coming, please RSVP above to secure your spot. Alternatively, if you'd prefer to register on Meetup.com the link is here.

Agenda:

Isha Edwards-Joshi @ Infinity Works

'Being disabled in Tech'

A short 20 minute talk about disability and how it can enhance tech through Isha's personal journey.

Bio: Isha is a non-binary triathlete that has worked in Tech for 5 years in various tech industries but now works as a FullStack Engineer for Infinity Works. Isha's background is mainly DevOps, SRE and AWS technologies. When Isha isn't working, she is usually training for an Ironman and raising money for charity.

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Srivalslan Mannoor & Vineeth Nair @ AWS (Amazon Web Services)

"Building Self Service DevOps Platform using Proton and Backstage"

This talk discusses in detail about the advantages of leveraging self service platform for building infrastructure and applications in the kubernetes application and how to optimize to accelerate developer velocity and best practice adoption in an enterprise container platform.

This talk also discuss about how to use AWS Proton for infrastructure templates and backstage for developer templates and discuss the best practices in implementing these tools and techniques.

Bio: I am Srivalsan Mannoor Sudhagar, Cloud Infrastructure Architect with Amazon Web Services and my interest (or specialisation) include Containers, Kubernetes and Data Engineering. A public speaker by passion and has given tech talks in AWS Events, CNCF Meetup in london.

Co-Speaker Bio: I am Vineeth Nair, DevOps Architect at AWS ProServe. I have 18+ years of experience in IT and with various domains such as Telecom, Banking, Insurance, etc. I started with Bash, JavaScript, and PowerShell and now with Python. I love coding and AWS Lambda is one of my favorite services offered by AWS. My passion is to share knowledge hence I am here today. Happy learning

Paul Gledhill 
“Gaming DevOps”
 

Join us as we delve into the exciting realm of Gaming DevOps! Discover how utilizing infrastructure-as-code, Git-managed configurations, and scheduled pipelines can streamline the provisioning of game servers. Learn about the innovative use of Discord for player interaction with the servers in a controlled manner.
 

Additionally, we'll discuss the crucial role of monitoring game server usage and cost optimization strategies to keep expenses under £1 per month. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into how a small hobby project has been over engineered to the point of no return.
 

Bio: Paul Gledhill is a technologist, and organiser of the AWS Liverpool User Group. In his spare time, he can be found tinkering with his home automation setup, cycling on Zwift, or hacking the APIs on his car.

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DevOps Exchange Manchester

DOXMAN is organised by LinuxRecruit - Continuous Delivery of Top Tech Talent.

www.linuxrecruit.co.uk/jobs