My week ahead in London (23/09/2019 to 27/09/2019):

This week I’ll be travelling to London to attend a tech conference called Cloud Native London 2019. Cloud Native London is a 3 day event which was established to discuss all things Cloud related.

Cloud Native London is an event I’ve been looking forward to attending for the the past 5 months, since discovering a meetup event called “Cloud Native Wales” in my hometown (Cardiff if you didn’t know already).

In this blog post I want to discuss my plans for the week and what I hope to get out of attending the event.

For those of you who follow this blog, or know me in real life, you’ll know that I have a keen interest in cloud, automation, scaling & distributed computing, dev-ops practises, open source, etc… in addition to the software development practises I use at work. I feel like it’s important to stay on top of developments in the industry to keep my skills fresh and active. Personally, I find one of the best ways of exploring new technologies is to attend events to learn how different organisations are implementing and measuring the success of different systems & methodologies. This allows you to focus on what other people are testing out, rather than having to constantly research technologies yourself, saving you a tremendous amount of time in the long run.

Cloud Native London is a 3 day event where some of the greatest experts in the I.T field gather together to discuss developments in Clouds, Containers, Virtualisation, and how different technologies can be implemented for different business needs. One such technology that’s gaining huge popularity in recent years is Kubernetes. In my opinion, Sarah Wells of Financial times is the best public speaker in the field and is an early adpopter of Kubernetes. Here’s a video of her keynote at KubeCon in 2018, just in case you’re intererested in watching it:

In preparation for this event, I want to make others aware of the work I’m doing with Cloud technologies (Docker development etc.) and hope to make some valuable connections in the industry and get my name known for future business opportunities. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise until today that I’ve run out of business cards, so handing them out at Cloud Native London isn’t going to happen.

Tickets for the event are completely sold out, meaning there will hopefully be plenty of like-minded people there to connect with and have a good time with.

Cloud Native London Event Agenda:

Here is my agenda for the event, showing which talks and presentations I’ll be participating in:

My personal schedule

Day 1 25th September 2019

08:00 Registration & Breakfast

09:00 Welcome to CloudNative London 2019 - Day 1

09:15Keynote

All levels Keynote: It’s a Trap! Vendor Lock-in and the Cloud

Sam Newman

private-cloudpublic-clouddevopsmicroservicescloud-native

10:15 Tea & Coffee Break

10:30Track 2

Intermediate Serverless Journey with Lessons Learned

Ebru Cucen

cloudserverless

11:00 Tea & Coffee Break

11:15 Track 2

Beginners It's Not Too Late To Learn About Kubernetes

César Tron-Lozai

kubernetesdevopscloudcloud-native

11:45 Tea & Coffee Break

12:00 Track 1

Intermediate Finding a Needle in a Call Stack - Intro to Distributed Tracing

Josh Michielsen

clouddistributed-systembackend-engineeringopentelemetrytracingobservability

12:30 Lunch

13:30Track 1

Advanced Advanced Techniques for Building Container Images

Adrian Mouat

container-imagesclouddockerdevops

14:00 Tea & Coffee Break

14:15Track 2

Intermediate Before and After Kubernetes - Was It Worth It and Why? A joint case study

Alexis Richardson

devopscloudcloud-nativekubernetes

14:45 Tea & Coffee Break

15:00 Track 1

Intermediate TBA: Top Secret Cloud-Native Security Lessons

Ben Hall

cloud-nativecloudsecurity

15:30 Tea & Coffee Break

15:45Keynote

All levels Lightning Talk: How to Explain Docker to Your Grandma

Francesco Renzi

devopscloudeli5cloud-nativedocker

16:00Keynote

15 minute Lightning Talk (TBC)

cloud

16:15 Beer Break!

16:30Keynote

All levels Keynote: Preparing for the Quantum Revolution

John Azariah

devopscloudquantum-computing

17:30 CloudNative 2019 Party

22:00 End of CloudNative 2019 Day 1 - See you tomorrow!

Day 2 26th September 2019

08:30 Registration & Breakfast

09:00 Welcome to CloudNative London 2019 - Day 2

09:15Keynote

All levels Keynote: Learning To Be Successful at “Being Wrong”™ In The Cloud

Russ Miles

clouddevopscloud-nativechaos-engineering

10:15 Tea & Coffee Break

10:30 Track 1

Intermediate Introduction to service mesh with Istio and Kiali

Alissa Bonas

cloudobservabilitykialiistiokubernetescontainersmicroservicesservice-mesh

11:00 Tea & Coffee Break

11:15Track 2

Intermediate Using Kubeflow Pipelines for building machine learning pipelines

Yufeng Guo

clouddata-engineeringdata-sciencekubernetesmlmachine-learning

11:45 Tea & Coffee Break

12:00 Track 2

Intermediate Istio service mesh vs AWS App Mesh: how about both?

Christian Posta

devopscloudapplication-safetysafe-deploymentsconsulenvoyistioservice-meshmicroservices

12:30 Lunch

13:30Keynote

All levels Keynote: Is DevOps Still Relevant In A Cloud Native World? (Enterprise Edition)

Jez Humble

deploymenttddserverlessclouddevopscloud-native

14:30 Tea & Coffee Break

14:45 Track 2

Intermediate Cloud-Native Microservices with RSocket

Arsalan Farooq

cloudmicroservices

15:15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:30Keynote

Intermediate Lightning Talk: Serverless: Patterns, Limitations and Pitfalls

James Peet

devopscloudserverless

15:45Keynote

Intermediate Lightning Talk: Discovery, Consul and Inversion of Control for the infrastructure

Pierre Souchay

devopscloudcloud-nativediscovery

16:00 Beer Break

16:15Keynote

All levels Keynote: Cultivating Production Excellence

Liz Fong-Jones

cloudobservabilitydistributed-systemsdevopssre

17:15 End of CloudNative Day 2 - See you on Day 3!

Day 3 27th September 2019

08:30 Registration & Breakfast

09:00 Welcome to CloudNative London 2019 - Day 3

09:15Keynote

All levels How We Broke the World Record for Computing Digits of Pi (31.4 trillion!)

Emma Haruka Iwao

cloudpicloud-native

10:15 Tea & Coffee Break

10:30 Track 2

Intermediate Busier than Barclaycard on Black Friday

Stew Norriss

cloudsecurityhugescaleawsdata

11:00 Tea & Coffee Break

11:15 Track 2

Intermediate How to Break Builds and Influence People - Ordnance Survey's Ongoing Cloud Native Journey

Phil Peters and Andy Bridle

clouddxdevops

11:45 Tea & Coffee Break

12:00 Track 2

Intermediate Serverless 2.0: Get Started With The PLONK Stack

Alex Ellis

serverlesscloudcloud-nativedocker

12:30 Lunch

13:30Keynote

All levels Keynote: Introducing Ecstasy: A Cloud Native, General Purpose Programming Language

Gene Gleyzer and Cameron Purdy

programming-languagecloudopscloud-nativeecstasylang

14:30 Tea & Coffee Break

14:45 Track 1

Intermediate Cloud Native Patterns

Jamie Dobson

devopscloudcloud-native

15:15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:30Keynote

All levels Keynote: Quality for 'Cloud Natives': What Changes When Your Systems Are Complex And Distributed?

Sarah Wells

cloudcloudnativedistributed-system

16:30 CloudNative 2019 Wrap Up Presentation

16:45 End of CloudNative London 2019 - See you in 2020!

Tracks I’m looking forward to

“Cloud Native Patterns” and “Learning To Be Successful at “Being Wrong” In The Cloud” are two of the tracks I’m looking forward to the most out of the entire of the event. I’m also really interested in meeting Sarah Wells in person.

Closing Comments

So yeah, an exciting week ahead! I’ll be sure to blog about topics I find interesting and update you all on how the event went.

Hopefully there will be some freebies and tech goodies given away during the event, if there is then I’ll be sure to take advantage of them :D

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