londonIAC meetup on Weds 26th April.
Join us on Wednesday, April 26th for our upcoming meetup at G-Research's London Headquarters, located near Goodge Street in Central London. G-Research will be generously providing refreshments and pizza as we gather to learn something new and network with our peers. We have two talks scheduled for tonight, featuring Post Office Limited's cloud transformation and their use of Terraform for CI/CD pipelines.
Please note that the nearest Tube Station is Goodge Street.
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Agenda:
18:00: G-Research Opens their doors. Grab a drink and have a chat with the other attendees as they arrive. I'll be there to meet you when you arrive and so will the Pizza.
18:20pm: - Introduction by Dennis McCarthy (Your meetup host)
I'm excited to welcome you all and have a few messages to share with you.
18:30pm: A word from our Sponsor - G-Research would like to welcome you to their office and say a few words before we begin the talks.
18:35pm: Moving to the cloud: What I wish I'd known - Ben Owens @ post office Ltd
A reflection on POL's cloud adoption, some of the challenges we encountered and how you might be able to avoid them.
19:00pm: Post Office Terraform Pipelines - Jack Penson @post office Ltd
Scaling IaC using shared modules with CI/CD and test automation
19:30pm: Cloud Native 101: Exploring CNCF's Kubernetes Connection and Beyond - James Spurin
19:40pm: The heads & Tails game!
One attendee will win a £20 Amazon voucher, just for turning up.
Now, grab a drink and have a chat with your fellow attendees and speakers.
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BIOs:
Dennis Is the founder of the London Infrastructure as Code meetup and currently works as a Linux/Automation Engineer for WorldPay. He's also a published author and writes training courses on Ansible and DevOps tools for fun.
Ben is Head of Cloud Office for the Post Office, accountable for POL's cloud platforms (AWS & Azure) and developer tooling. Started out as a J2EE developer (don't hate me for that!). Worked and lived in both UK and India and love the opportunity the IT industry has offered me.
Jack is a Software Engineer with a focus on Cloud, DevOps, particularly CI/CD. Primarily focussed on AWS, Kubernetes, and building pipelines to help businesses ship faster and safer.
James has worked in Technology for over 20 years for many awesome companies including Demon Internet, Virgin Media, Dell EMC, Goldman Sachs and Nomura. He’s the founder of DiveInto and specialises in online IT training. He’s currently working on a free course on Kubernetes!
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