Category Archives: Events

Google Digital Garage in Leeds – developing a business ‘personality’

Summary: we went along to the Google Digital Garage in Leeds recently for a mentoring session. As a high-value, specialist technology consultancy, we wanted to find ways to make our voice heard above the bigger but less focused players. Here is what we found.

Microservices, data strategy, and data fragmentation – interview on InfoQ

At QCon London 2015, InfoQ interviewed Matthew Skelton, Co-founder of Skelton Thatcher Consulting, about Continuous Delivery, DevOps, microservices, tools, and teams. Here is an excerpt from the part of the interview on InfoQ covering microservices and data strategy:

Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law – slides from QCon London

We were asked to speak in the DevOps & Continuous Delivery track at QCon London this year, and on 5th March our co-founder Matthew SkeltonĀ gave a talk on ‘Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway’s Law‘. Here are the slides and some photos from the talk:

IPExpo 2014 – a view from the exhibition floor

This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. This year, the annual IP EXPO Europe event combined with Data Centre EXPO and Cyber Security EXPO.Ā We attended with an interest in checking out some of the keynotes, and to take a look at a couple of products which might beContinue reading “IPExpo 2014 – a view from the exhibition floor”

Video: the future of DevOps – teams, outsourcing, responsibilities

As part of the Rackspace DevOpsBreakfast event in August 2014, we discussed the future of teams, responsibilities, and outsourcing in a DevOps context; this was in response to a question from Sean Ferigan (@ferigan): How do you see DevOps evolving over, say, the next few years? Are there any particular trends emerging? Here is theContinue reading “Video: the future of DevOps – teams, outsourcing, responsibilities”

How to choose tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery

This post was written by Matthew SkeltonĀ co-author ofĀ Team Guide to Software Operability. With an ever-increasing array of tools and technologies claiming to ‘enable DevOps’, how do we know which tools to try or to choose? In-house, open source, or commercial? Ruby or shell? Dedicated or plugins? It transpires that highly collaborative practices such as DevOpsContinue reading “How to choose tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery”

Webinar: Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM BST To many people ITIL seems like the antithesis of Agile, with process-heavy, manual checks and approval gates a blocker to rapid delivery. However, at its core ITIL recommends iterative and continual improvement of software services based on the ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’ (PDCA) cycle ofContinue reading “Webinar: Joining up Agile and ITIL for DevOps success”

DevOps Breakfast with Rackspace – expanding on ‘What is DevOps?’

This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Today we attended the Rackspace-hosted #DevOpsBreakfast briefing in London, with my colleague Matthew Skelton taking an active seat on the panel, to debate the ‘what, why, and how’ of DevOps. The discussion was wide-ranging, with plenty of participation from the audience,Continue reading “DevOps Breakfast with Rackspace – expanding on ‘What is DevOps?’”

Highlights of OpenStack London 2014 – ‘Biodiversity’ and Resilience

This post was written by Rob Thatcher, co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. We attendedĀ the OpenStack London event on 4th June;Ā the day was insightful, and highlighted perspectives from many differentĀ participants in the OpenStack community. There were severalĀ interesting talks and demonstrations of both OpenStack components (Cinder, Swift, etc.) and of some new features and productsContinue reading “Highlights of OpenStack London 2014 – ‘Biodiversity’ and Resilience”