Category Archives: Events

Pipeline 2017

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. It is that time of the year and we are excited to be at PIPELINE again. Organised by Matthew Skelton, Steve Smith, Chris O’Dell, Beccy Stafford and Inka Howorth, the “unconference” is getting better and better every year!  After a quick opening by Inka Howorth and Chris O’Dell the conference started with theContinue reading “Pipeline 2017”

Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 4) – Deploying and Managing Containerised GoCD Continuous Delivery

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. This is the fourth post in an on-going series exploring Rancher Server deployment, configuration and extended use. In the last post I detailed how to add an extra level of HA by configuring an AWS EFS volume for shared storage and mounting it using the Rancher-NFS service. In this post we focus onContinue reading “Container Clustering with Rancher Server (Part 4) – Deploying and Managing Containerised GoCD Continuous Delivery”

DevOps Showcase North: DevOps and Microservices

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. This Tuesday I had an opportunity to attend DevOps Showcase North conference in Manchester. The event was organised by UNICOM and was co-located with 2 other conferences – Testing Showcase North and Agile Showcase North. Due to the unique conference format, all keynotes were held together in a jointContinue reading “DevOps Showcase North: DevOps and Microservices”

“Internal Tech Conferences – How and Why” – InfoQ

  Internal ‘tech’ conferences can make a big impact on your organisation’s level of sharing and communication, thus while they are yet not very common, more and more people are trying to use this powerful tool to spread new ideas and practices. With this view in mind, Matthew Skelton (Co-founder at Skelton Thatcher Consulting) and Victoria Morgan-Smith (Agile Delivery Coach, Financial Times)Continue reading ““Internal Tech Conferences – How and Why” – InfoQ”

Serverless Conference London 2016 (Part 2) – Data Governance, Mobile Challenges and the Future of Serverless

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. The scope for the final day at Serverless Conference 2016 appeared more developer orientated than the conceptual theme of the previous day. Not being a developer I chose a selection of AWS focused talks hoping they would offer familiar service hooks to help leverage understanding.

Serverless Conference London 2016 (Part 1) – IoT, Share-Nothing, Webtasks, and Cautions

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. After the success of New York and Tokyo events the 2016 Serverless Conference in London was hugely anticipated and offered an exciting selection of 40+ international speakers. Our SkeltonThatcher representative (me) was in attendance for days two and three to soak up the vibe and check out some ofContinue reading “Serverless Conference London 2016 (Part 1) – IoT, Share-Nothing, Webtasks, and Cautions”

Proud to support DevOps Lisbon – 500 members and growing!

This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. The DevOps Lisbon meetup help its first meetup in April 2016 and now has over 500 members (Manuel Pais, who leads our Build Engineering capability at Skelton Thatcher Consulting, is one of the co-founders). With regular monthly talks on topics such as Test AutomationContinue reading “Proud to support DevOps Lisbon – 500 members and growing!”

All Day DevOps – it is all about culture and collaboration

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Tuesday saw the first of its kind, All Day DevOps global online conference and it went great! Many interesting stories, many demos, useful tips and tricks and a lot of food for thought. One of the organisers Mark Miller mentioned that the aim was to make sure thatContinue reading “All Day DevOps – it is all about culture and collaboration”

Operability.io 2016 – Operations is crucial (Day 1)

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. After the success last year, the Operability.io returned to London on Monday 19th September. The two-day conference was single line, same as last year, and the speakers were hand-picked and carefully chosen by the organisers. Day 1 started with an opening speech by Marco Abis, with Mark Burgess delivering the firstContinue reading “Operability.io 2016 – Operations is crucial (Day 1)”