WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server

(This is a guest post from Chris O’Dell, co-author of Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (with Matthew Skelton) and developer on the Platform team at JUST EAT) WinOps describes itself as “the world’s only dedicated conference to ‘Windows in a DevOps world’”.  The 2016 conference took place on 24 May in London; the event partnerContinue reading “WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server”

IP EXPO Manchester, May 2016

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. The annual IP EXPO Manchester event started with a bang. The Day 1 (18th May, 2016) was full of people, vendors, excitement and amazing speakers.  The keynote by the Dame Stella Rimington (the first woman to be appointed as the Director General of UK’s counter intelligence service, MI5 and theContinue reading “IP EXPO Manchester, May 2016”

Building a Continuous Delivery Culture At Pipeline Conference

This post was written by John Clapham.   08:30hrs and already Pipeline Conference was buzzing, drawn together by an interest (in some cases obsession) with continuous delivery, getting stuff done, and a desire to improve, practitioners were gathering ready for the day’s talks.  Pipeline is in its third year, distinguishing itself by being tightly focusedContinue reading “Building a Continuous Delivery Culture At Pipeline Conference”

Highlights from Huawei Cloud Congress, Prague 2016

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Huawei, the telecommunications equipment giant is slowly but surely shifting the focus from carrier business to the cloud computing market. Since 2010, Huawei heavily invested in product innovation and big data and do not plan to stop.

Pipeline Conference 2016

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Returning for the third year in a row, the Pipeline Conference is bigger than ever! Organised by Matthew Skelton, Steve Smith, Chris O’Dell, Beccy Stafford and Anthony Green, the “unconference” is buzzing with excitement this morning!

Next Generation DevOps – highlights

 Next Generation DevOps, 2 December 2015 Supporting a Continuous Delivery Value Chain • Agile • Testing • QA • DevSecOps   We recently attended the Next Generation Devops conference in London organised by Unicom. Our co-founder Matthew Skelton chaired the event and delivered a talk on ‘Un-broken Logging’ [slides]. Another of our consultants, John Clapham, was talking aboutContinue reading “Next Generation DevOps – highlights”

Webinar – DevOps: Successful Communication Patterns for Effective Responsibilities

We were pleased to host a webinar on 14th October 2015 with Sabine Bernecker-Bendixen of Sof-IT and our own Matthew Skelton where we discussed some real-world successful communication patterns for DevOps. Here is what was discussed:

Operability.io Conference 2015 – Day 2

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. BUILDING WORLD CLASS OPS TEAMS by Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) Slides Charity Majors started the second day with her energetic and passionate talk about bootstrapping the ops team, highlighting the main problems and solutions.

Operability.io Conference 2015 – Day 1

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. WHAT EVEN IS OPERABLE? By Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) Andrew Shafer was the first speaker of the day and started the conference with explaining what Operability is and why IT Operations is/can be a huge competitive advantage.