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Devopsdays 2018

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Meetup - Tuesday 23rd October 2018 at The ODI Node in Leeds

After our extended summer break we're back at the ODI Node in Leeds on Tuesday 23rd October for a night of Devops chatter:

6:45 - 7:15 : Doors open, have a chat, make some new devops friends 7:15 - 7:25 : Group updates/news/announcements - Findmypast 7:25 - 8:05 : Azure DevOps 8:05 - 8:20 : Intermission 8:20 - 9:00 : Accelerating Delivery Velocity With Kubernetes 9:00 - late : Decamp to the Wardrobe

Our first talk is from Simon Thurman who is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, he'll be showcasing Microsoft's latest toolchain, covering the components of the system such as pipelines, test plans, artifact repos, boards and more. Simon will demonstrate the steps involved and interactions as code moves from commit to production in Azure Devops.

Our headline speaker is Simon Westcott a hands-on architect with 10+ yrs experience of building high traffic websites. In late 2016 Simon moved into the world of platform engineering to help re-imagine Sky Betting & Gaming's delivery approach and drive operational efficiency. Delivery agility is key to Simon and his Team's success. As their engineering team grows, they have an increasing number of greenfield products to comission, as well as monolithic applications to decompose into microservices. To manage this they need a platform that can keep pace, both in the cloud and on-premise. Simon will explore with you why they choose Kubernetes, how they're adapting both on AWS and on-premise and the challenges they faced.

As an extra treat we'll also be giving away 2 tickets for the upcoming DevOpsDays Edinburgh conference on the 1st and 2nd of November.

Once again we say a massive "Thank You" to Infinity Works for sponsoring the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

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What is Devops?

DevOps is a bunch of practices, tools, and a social way of thinking that robotize and coordinate the cycles between programming advancement and IT groups. It stresses group strengthening, cross-group correspondence and joint effort, and innovation computerization.

How Has DevOps Evolved?

DevOps is presently in its tenth year. DevOps, as most methods of reasoning and devices that have the pragmatic application, has had an excursion from being only a lot of thoughts and standards put together into an undeniable discipline with its own cycles and instruments.

Back in 2007, a venture chief named Patrick Debois was working with the Belgian government to assist with server farm relocations. He observed the entire interaction incredibly baffling as a result of the divider between the engineers and the activities group which made his work a lot harder and conveyance much slower.

Debois was a major devotee to the light-footed philosophy which advances a consistent cycle of improvement and testing all through the improvement lifecycle which helps dev groups transport better items quicker. He accepted that comparable standards ought to apply to the turn of events and activities groups cooperating in a state of harmony.

In 2008, Andrew Schafer (who later became known as a DevOps evangelist), and Debois got together at a gathering to examine introductory thoughts and standards around what they then, at that point, alluded to as lithe frameworks organization. They additionally shaped a deft executive gathering on google which is the place where the genuine beginnings of DevOps lie.

One more milestone occasion throughout the entire existence of DevOps development was the now popular show by Flickr workers John Allspaw(then VP of specialized activities) and Paul Hammond(then Director of Engineering) at the OReilly Velocity meeting in 2009. With a silly yet hard-hitting pretend, Hammond and Allspaw got back the way that there was significant business misfortune because of the divider among improvement and tasks and the main way out was a consistent joining between the two.

This show came to be known as the pivotal occasion for DevOps as the tech world immediately woke up to the need for such joining. The show roused Debois to put together a DevOps gathering called Devopsdays in Belgium, and the rest, as is commonly said, is history.

One more significant second in the development of DevOps was the main DevOps meeting in the United States. It was held in 2010 at Mountain View, California, the Mecca of innovation. This was the conclusive sign that DevOps had shown up and was staying put. In 2018 indeed, there were in excess of 30 DevOps meetings across the world.

The advantages of DevOps

Social events that take on DevOps culture, practices, and contraptions become high-performing, assembling better things speedier for more basic purchaser commitment. This further developed joint effort and efficiency is likewise fundamental to accomplishing business objectives like these:

1.    Accelerating time to market

2.    Adapting to the market and competition

3.    Maintaining system stability and reliability

4.    Improving the meantime to recovery

How DevOps Works

Under a DevOps model, improvement and activities groups are no longer siloed. Once in a while, these two groups are converged into a solitary group where the architects work across the whole application lifecycle, from improvement and test to organization to activities, and foster a scope of abilities not restricted to a solitary capacity.

In some DevOps models, quality confirmation and security groups may likewise turn out to be all the more firmly incorporated with improvement and tasks and all through the application lifecycle. At the point when security is the emphasis of everybody in a DevOps group, this is once in a while alluded to as DevSecOps.

These groups use practices to robotize processes that generally have been manual and slow. They use a development stack and tooling which help them with working and advancing applications quickly and reliably. These instruments likewise assist engineers with autonomously achieving undertakings (for instance, conveying code or provisioning foundation) that ordinarily would have needed support from different groups, and this further expands a groups speed.

The connection between Devops and Agile

Both DevOps and Agile are current programming improvement systems for creating an item, a dispatch, or a delivery. DevOps is a culture, encouraging joint effort among all jobs engaged with the turn of events and upkeep of programming. Nimble is an improvement strategy intended to keep up with efficiency and drive discharges with the normal truth of evolving needs. DevOps and Agile are not fundamentally unrelated and are regularly drilled t

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My journey in tech so far... and the path to starting this blog!

I started my career as a software developer. In 2011 I joined Kuehne + Nagel in Hamburg as a java developer for the KN FreightNet project. This was the first agile project at all in the Global IT organization of the company, and I had the chance to be there from the beginnings. My world became “agile” and I got so interested in “the big picture” that I began helping with more analytical and communicational tasks in my team and inter-team collaboration. 

After a short break due to my maternity leave, I completely shifted from software development to requirements engineering, collaborating as well with our department’s agile coaching team in retrospectives moderation. 

It was also after my return, that I got caught in the “DevOps” movement, because I was reassigned to a team where the first continuous deployment pilot of the company was under development. It was a big learning curve, but to me it was a new, challenging and fascinating world.  

I started learning quickly new concepts, principles, practices and behaviors. I started attending as many meetUps and conferences as I could to hear the experiences from others and see what I could learn. I discovered a big community happy to share knowledge. 

That’s how I realized that I also had stories to share. Listening to others made me realize that what we were doing in our department was also a cool and interesting experience to share. So I decided to start talking around about the cool stuff we do for the KN FreightNet platform at Kuehne + Nagel.

After talking for the first time ever in a conference (Delivery of Things World Berlin 2017) telling about our journey to continuous deployments, I decided I would definitely do that more often. It was such an adrenaline rush! Apart from all the valuable insights I got from all other talks.

So I decided to add public speaking as one of my professional features, and happily I have plenty of food for thought at my working place, where I get cool ideas to talk about. And they are happy to have a passionate advocate like me promoting the cool stuff we do. It’s a win-win situation :-)

I spoke two times more on 2017, and once already last week at the DevOpsDays Kiel 2018. Who knows, maybe I’ll speak again sometime this year somewhere else :-P

But I realized that very often I have a pile of ideas in my head I would like to get rid of and somehow never find the chance. That’s how I decided to create this blog.

Let’s see how this pile of ideas grows. Stay tuned! :-)

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Friday-ish Links

curl write-out JSON | daniel.haxx.se

This is a really cool addition to curl that would help a ton with intricate scripting around it. Or, you know, maybe if you need it you should really be using another language or something.

Dialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI - Microsoft Research

I managed never to publish my review of Elements of Clojure, it seems, but Zach Tellman's exit from the Clojure community was a pretty sad day to me. Every one of his talks is worth watching. So much of what I find wise in his talks is distilled in that book. I really should get around to reviewing it…

Anyway, this post is about what he's been up to since moving on to MSR.

Elements of Programming Style - Brian Kernighan - YouTube

Everything I've seen and heard from Brian Kernighan makes me wish that I'd worked with him or known him. He just seems like a generally great guy and someone who's head is screwed on real straight. I dug this talk.

Dune Official Trailer - YouTube

Preeeeety excited here.

"Humanity 2.0" by Matt Taylor - YouTube

Super Mario Bros. Pitch Meeting - YouTube

My wife and I just found this channel and we're enjoying going through a lot of the backlog. This one really hit home.

"Super easy. Barely and inconvenience."

Stefan Tilkov - Why software architects fail – and what to do about it - YouTube

PREDATOR: The Smartest Genre Mash-Up Ever? Probably! - YouTube

I've been loving Patrick H. Willems.

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy - YouTube

I wish Every Frame a Painting was still going.

Reich: How Unequal Can America Get? - YouTube

This has come up again several times this week. One of those talks that really changes how you think about the present.

All Achievements in Hollow Knight Done in 1 Run Under 9 Hours - YouTube

Ridiculous.

The Greatest Showman | "This Is Me" with Keala Settle | 20th Century FOX - YouTube

We watched Jumanji with my family lately and beforehand my sister requested that we watch something from Greatest Showman because she wanted to sing. This performance still gives me chills.

SPELUNKY 2 PS4 RELEASE - Sight-Unseen First Time Experience - YouTube

It's out!

As is Rogue Legacy 2!

Coding Interviews are Broken - YouTube

I hate coding interviews.

Bullfrog Dad Protects His Tadpoles - YouTube

So cool!

Has Anti-Racism Become as Harmful as Racism? John McWhorter vs. Nikhil Singh - YouTube

I keep thinking about so many points brought up in this debate.

Devopsdays 2018 - Emily Freeman Scaling Sparta: Military Lessons for Growing A Dev Team - YouTube

DAGON by H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated) - ULTIMATE ELDER GOD VERSION - YouTube

Really cool animation.

Why You Love A Hero Who Doesn't Matter | Blade Runner 2049 - YouTube

THE DARK KNIGHT: How the Joker creates doubt - YouTube

Bunk bed disaster - Peter Pan Goes Wrong: Preview - BBC One - YouTube

My wife randomly found The Goes Wrong Show and boy did we enjoy it. :)

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The Growth of DevOps and It’s trends in 2019

In the modern business world, DevOps is the much-needed answer to eliminate repetitive tasks and poor coordination between the Software development and IT Operations team. DevOps is a systematic approach that eliminates repetition, reduces glitches, exemplary coordination, and more production. Before we go in-depth about DevOps, let’s look into its history.

The inception of DevOps

Back in 2008, Andrew Shafer scheduled a seminar on “Agile Infrastructure” in Toronto. He received a very poor response that he closed the seminar before it even began. But the idea struck Patrick Debois. Patrick was keen to collaborate with Andrew. He was excited to know that Andrew had the same viewpoint as him, who felt there was a disconnect between the development and operations team. He strongly felt that the differences between both the teams could be eliminated, and both teams can work in collaboration. Andrew and Patrick came together to form the group Agile Systems Group. They aimed to bring together developers and operators.

In 2009, Patrick watched a presentation by John Allspaw on “10+ Deploys per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr”. John Allspaw spoke about how developers and operators can collaborate to improve the deployment of software. This presentation inspired Patrick to start his seminars. His conferences attracted forward-thinking minds who were trying to improve the deployment of software. The group of people who came together started the DevOpsDays hashtag on twitter. This hashtag started to trend, and more and more people joined the conversation under the hashtag DevOps. They had to reduce from DevopsDays to DevOps due to character limitations.

In 2010, the DevOpsDays face to face meetings was conducted in different cities around the world, which led to the popularity of DevOps.  

By 2018 most organizations embraced DevOps in their business process. The ability to support the modern business that is constantly going through a transformation, more and more organizations started adopting DevOps in their processes.  

DevOps trends in 2019

The collaboration between the Development and Information Technology Operations has led to better communication and also the emergence of new disciplines and tools. As a result, more and more organizations started adopting DevOps. The top five trends of DevOps are:

Automation

It will not be a distant reality that most business functions will be automated. We have already adopted automation in quite a few functions. Automation will change how IT operations operate. It will also lead to the development of DevOps processes. The 6C’s of DevOps are:

Continuous Business Planning

Collaborative Development

Continuous Testing

Continuous Release and Deployment

Continuous Monitoring

Collaborative Customer Feedback and Optimization.

The implementation of automation between the stages of 6C’s is essential for the development of DevOps.

AI and ML

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are going to be a big part of DevOps culture. AI and ML can perform tedious tasks, along with processing a huge amount of information and save time for IT staff. They can study patterns and provide solutions to potential problems. This will make work easier for IT staff, and they can concentrate and prioritize time for other important work.  

More focus on DevOps Assembly Lines

Most organizations are focusing on automating the process of software development. DevOps Assembly Lines focuses on streamlining several DevOps activities, workflows that are event-driven, easy to share statuses as well as information across various activities. DevOps Assembly Line can define complex workflows through numerous pipelines. Earlier the focus was on Continuous Integration (CI), which has been shifted to Continuous Delivery. DevOps Assembly Line can manage several pipelines and automate workflows through several teams and tools, which enables Continuous Delivery.

Container Technology – Kubernetes

Kubernetes has become enormously popular because of its easy to use.  A product originally developed by Google is an open-source platform. It automates the operations of Linux containers. It avoids the manual work involved in deploying and scaling applications that are containerized.

DevSecOps will be in focus

DevSecOps aims at bringing security in every step of the process. Each person is held responsible in the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) flow. The security processes and controls are embedded in the early stage of the workflow. This ensures that it is not bolted towards the end of the processes flow.

DevOps is not just a technology but a mindset and culture that more and more organizations are embracing to eliminate disconnections between development and operations. Businesses that are adopting DevOps should keep a tab on the latest trends and developments of DevOps to benefit from it.

In the near future, it is expected that almost all organizations will be adopting DevOps in their functions. This would lead to a high demand for DevOps certified professionals in various organizations. It is highly recommended for developers and operators to get certified in DevOps. So, if you’re an expert and looking for a certification, Certification Planner conducts DevOps courses in the US, Australia, Mexico, Canada, and Singapore. The courses facilitated by the Certification Planner are:

DevOps Foundation

DevOps Leader

To know more about the courses, you can connect with us at support@certificationplanner.com or speak with our experts at +1 8553221201. Visit our website to know about DevOps Courses.

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Rising Demand for DevOps Professionals – 2009 to Now and Beyond

Demand for DevOps candidates is rising. In the past year, we have seen more and more organisations pushing to introduce DevOps into their business, or expanding the team currently in place. Observing this growth, we began to think about the space and just how much it has evolved. After all, it was not even a decade ago that the term DevOps was first coined, when Patrick Debois hosted the “devopsdays” conference in Belgium.

Since the creation of the term in 2009, the DevOps space has blossomed, and tech businesses have quickly adopted teams of these professionals, recognising their function as a necessary piece in the development puzzle.

A quick history

DevOps came from the need to de-silo development and operations to more efficiently move through development, with minimal bottlenecks on the operations side. Originally DevOps began utilising existing software development methodologies, like Waterfall or Agile. Today, the function of DevOps is to design processes specific to the needs of the business. Some may leverage existing software development methodologies but without relying on them entirely.

As this role has matured, so too have the practices, processes and technologies that support it. DevOps has gone from playing a role in optimising for cost, to now also optimising for speed; a combination that is critical for most modern businesses to stay competitive. In addition to improved processes and turn around, these individuals ensure better communication and collaboration between the teams.

Why so popular?

The way that we deliver software has changed. What could once take years of development is now expected to be delivered in a fraction of the time. Having a DevOps culture means businesses can release products and features a lot quicker, speed to market is increased and collaboration between the operations team and development team is improved; thus increasing communication and an effective workforce.

DevOps includes continuous development and continuous integration, allowing for better integration with other systems through Open Source coding.

It’s more prevalent in this day and age that companies produce goods more rapidly and more effectively, which is why DevOps has been formed, and exactly why the need for these individuals is growing exponentially. As demands from customers increase, both in terms of range and fast turn around, DevOps professionals are working to remain two steps ahead and keeping projects advancing in rapid time.

Looking ahead

DevOps professionals are scarce and will only become more scarce as the space grows faster than the professionals entering the market. Businesses should be wary of people who call themselves DevOps professionals but are actually not in practice. We already see this happening today and it may become more of an issue moving forward as businesses are tempted to look at under-skilled people to meet their needs.

To avoid getting caught out, you need to know what you’re looking for. If you don’t know how to find DevOps professionals, you’ll need a good agency on your side. Of course we would say that, but the reality is that we work all day every day in this space and have deep networks with some of the most successful DevOps professionals. 

Get in touch with us today.

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We are all unicorns! - My impressions of the DevOpsDays Kiel 2018

 We are all unicorns! Those were part the starting words of Sabine, the conference chair, at the beginning of day one. And I couldn’t agree more!

DevOps is definitely not reserved only for those so-called “Unicorns”, any IT organization of any industry sector, of any size can (and should!) “do DevOps”. And it’s precisely in events like this where anyone gets the chance to hear stories from others, learn and share knowledge. The DevOps movement has been around for almost 10 years already after the first DevOpsDays conference was held. Meanwhile, the community has grown a lot and there are plenty of real stories available that proof that anyone can do DevOps. That we are all unicorns.

But beyond that, I think what Sabine meant was that the simple fact that we were all gathered there, starting yet a new edition of the DevOpsDays conference was a clear indicator of our common interest for improvement, a desire to get better, to find out how to maximize our performance in this rapid changing IT world. Because we can do it! We are all unicorns! 

And with this inspiring opening, the table was served. 

But before starting with the talks, there were some opening words from the Minister-President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein and the Mayor of Kiel. I found really nice that the local politicians show their interest and support for the event because it reinforces the image of Kiel as an important IT hub in northern-Germany. It is specially relevant for the development of the local community, which I think should be one of the purposes of the organizers when bringing a conference like this to their city.

After all the opening rounds, finally the talks began. I don’t intend to go through my impressions of each of the presentations, but rather tell about my personal highlights in general.

The keynotes

The first keynote was held by Dr. Frank Hollenberg about the success factors of DevOps adoptions according to his experience. He didn’t spoke any theory, using 5 concrete stories he explained in each case the context, the problem to solve, the measurable goal to achieve, and what they did to solve it. It was his way of sharing the lessons learned with us. He didn’t use any power point (or similar) presentation, but only those 5 stories. And this is an approach that I specially liked because (in my opinion) it forced the audience to pay more attention to what he was saying. Therefore it was for me one of the highlights of day 1.

The keynote of day 2 was held by Avishai Ish-Shalom about “The missing user stories”. It was for me an “eye-opener” that things like technical refactorings or “forgotten” use-cases like supporting the change of an email, the deletion of an account, are usually not present on the team’s backlog. We tend to focus more on “business” use stories and forget that not only the end user of the system is important, but every person interacting with the system in any way is a user. So, the developers are the first users. He formulated these ideas in such a way that I can imagine many people in the audience thinking: Yes! that’s so true! we should definitely do something about it!. In my opinion it was a sharp call to action for everyone to think twice about what user stories the team needs to implement.

The closing keynote of day 2 was held by Dirk Lehmann, it touched what in my opinion is the most important factor of any DevOps initiative: Trust! The title was: “Trust as a foundation of DevOps” Unfortunately I had to miss it in order to catch my train back home. But after reading some tweets with the impressions of the audience being so amazed by the talk, I decided to google it up a bit and it turns out Dirk gave it last year as well, and here is the video:  https://vimeo.com/219025674 

DevOpsDays Kiel recorded all talks as well and they will be published, but just in case anyone missed that last keynote like me and can’t wait, the link above will do the job ;-)

For me it was really amazing! The best possible closing for the conference.

The rest of the agenda

The program was well balanced between case studies of DevOps adoption, technical talks, innovative topics (for me) like DevOps applied to teams developing AI & Machine Learning algorithms and cultural talks. I had the honor of presenting an ignite talk about why DevOps is important for any Business in order to evolve and become better. Here is a post where you can check it out, but for now let’s focus on the conference as such ;-)

As in any DevOpsDays conference, the afternoons were filled mostly with open spaces. Even though there were almost no suggestions till noon, by the time the agenda needed to be filled, the topics for discussion appeared magically and we could fill the slots. I have the impression that the groups had a nice knowledge exchange and interesting discussions. I participated as well and had a great time telling my stories and hearing also from others.

The evening event on Day 1

We had lots of fun at an irish pub with pizza and drinks listening to a local band playing some country-rock, which was truly entertaining! I had the chance to speak more with other attendees and the organizers in a more relaxed way and getting to know each other a bit more. And the music was really good in my opinion! A fantastic evening indeed!

The local community

I think the conference had around 100 people. I don’t  know exactly how many we were, but it felt like the perfect size for such an event. We weren’t too many, but also not too few. And there was a really good mixture of international speakers and local ones, which is not always the case. Especially the good representation of local speakers was for me yet another indicator that we are not too far behind as a community from other major IT-hubs in the world, which is good to know. 

I engaged in conversation with lots of people during the breaks and in the open spaces and it was a really interesting experience. It was easy to reach out to the speakers and engage in conversation with them as well. It felt for me like a kind of camp, with the spirit of collaboration and desire to learn from each other. I definitely prefer community events like this over big conferences with business dress code :-P

The catering

Last but not least I would like to make a special mention to the catering of the event. We were very well taken care of, with food, soft drinks, sweets, coffee, tea. Everything we needed. My compliments to the organizers.

In conclusion

Again, my compliment to the organizers. You did a great job putting up a very interesting program and with all the rest I already mentioned. The second edition of the DevOpsDays in Kiel was a huge success in my opinion and I can only look forward to next year’s event. You can be proud! Thanks a lot for enabling such an effective knowledge exchange and inspiring us. We are all unicorns! :-)

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Meetup - Tuesday 27th March 2018 at The ODI Node in Leeds

Spring is in the air and it’s time for a devops meetup at the ODI Node in Leeds on Tuesday 27th March. We bring you an couple of brilliant talks:

6:45 - 7:15 : Doors open, have a chat, make some new devops friends 7:15 - 7:25 : Group updates/news/announcements 7:25 - 8:05 : VeriSM - making sense of digital transformation - Claire Agutter 8:05 - 8:20 : Intermission 8:20 - 9:00 : Questions you should ask at your "DevOps" interview - Bob Walker 9:00 - late : Decamp to the Wardrobe

We are delighted to welcome back Claire Agutter for our first talk entitled "VeriSM - making sense of digital transformation". Claire is a service management trainer, consultant and author. In 2017 she was recognised as an HDI Top 25 Thought Leader and was part of the team that won itSMF UK’s thought leadership award. Claire is the host of the popular ITSM Crowd hangouts, and Chief Architect for VeriSM.

In the last 5 years, the world of IT has exploded with buzzwords, new ways of working, and the ever present demands to do more with less. Digital transformation is the latest phrase, but what does it actually mean? Claire is going to talk about the changes that are needed at the personal and organisational level for digital transformation to actually deliver results, and how the VeriSM approach has been written to help.

Or second speaker is Bob Walker, Bob is one of the organising team behind DevopsDay London and claims to have been doing devops since before it was called devops and has been doing on call longer than that. bob is currently working at dxw as System Operations Engineer but has been the Supreme Ruler of the YAML engineers at the UK Government Digital Service and has only recently stopped being on call for GOV.UK.

Bob’s talk is "Questions you should ask at your "DevOps" interview" - Ever wondered how best to respond when an interviewer asks if you have any questions? Drawing on his experience from both sides of the table, bob offers some suggestions for questions which will not only make you look well-prepared but also help you decide whether you want to work there.

We are again grateful to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

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