London DevOps #52 (Online)

London DevOps goes online again this month with a schedule of two talks taking place over Zoom, followed by a social session to which everyone can contribute.

The link to attend the event is: https://adaptavist.zoom.us/j/95772668157

Please see speakers and agenda below;

6:00pm - Introductions

6:15pm - John Willis (RedHat) - Designing Platforms with the Three Economies Frame

Looking at new ways to understand transformation through the lens of a platform. We will look at design patterns and the 4V's (Velocity, Variability, Variety, and Visability).

John Willis is Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat Prior to Red Hat, he was the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in February 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Chef and Canonical. John was one of the earliest cloud evangelists and is considered one of the founders of the Devops movement. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks. He is also the co-author of the “Devops Handbook” and “Beyond the Phoenix Project” along with author Gene Kim.

7:00pm - Andy Burgin (Sky Betting and Gaming) - Beyond Dashboards: Visualising Complex Systems

Although we may have detailed knowledge of individual components of our systems, can dashboards alone give us the ability to understand how those components and the many others relate, interact and operate as a complex system?

This session will demonstrate ways to “see” the workloads running on Kubernetes clusters. Helping to better understand a system through visualisation, anomaly identification and exploratory analysis. Using tools such as graph databases and visualisation tools, you’ll see how they can help explore and understand cluster workloads. See how these tools have identified issues and how they can help engage with users of the systems to share best practices and ultimately improve cluster performance.

Andy is a 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 50 events. He’s attended and spoke at a bunch of DevOps conferences and in his own words is ‘an all-round DevOps nuisance’.

7:40pm - Social Session

We'll run a separate Zoom meeting to socialise afterwards: https://adaptavist.zoom.us/j/95079118938