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SUMMARY:DevOps Vancouver Meetup: March 2020
DESCRIPTION:Spring is nearly here and so is the March DevOps Vancouver Meet
 up! We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and our sponsor\, LoginRadius\
 , will serve pizza and host the Meetup at their downtown offices\, just on
 e block away from Waterfront Skytrain station.\n\nSpace is limited\, so pl
 ease book your seat early. Please remember: update your booking if you can
 ’t make it\, so others who get waitlisted can attend in your place.\n\nH
 ere’s the evening’s line-up:\n\nMelissa O’Brien – “WorkSafeBC’
 s Cloud Story”\nJoin Melissa to discuss the fun and toils of the three-y
 ear Cloud Journey at WorkSafeBC. Hear how Cloud enabled DevOps and the int
 roduction of a common engineering system. In this interactive presentation
 \, Melissa will share both strategic and technical lessons learned from th
 e Cloud Platform build-out and Cloud Migration program at WorkSafeBC.\n\nM
 elissa is Senior Manager of Cloud Services at WorkSafeBC. A creative probl
 em-solver at heart\, Melissa loves bringing the right people together to e
 nable the delivery of business value while reducing the overall technical 
 debt in complex enterprise systems. Previously an Infrastructure Technical
  Specialist\, Melissa’s bold nature has been pivotal to the delivery of 
 the WorkSafeBC Cloud via teams responsible for Cloud Operations and Design
 \, the Cloud Data Warehouse and the overall Cloud Migration initiative. Me
 lissa’s truest passion is finding the right people\, clearing roadblocks
  to success and achieving alignment at the leadership level.\n\nAlex Bunar
 dzic - “When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough”\nAlex has been doing softwar
 e engineering since 1990. Getting exposed over time to various roles (prog
 rammer\, technical lead\, software architect\, manager of software enginee
 ring\, CTO\, etc.)\, Alex accumulated variety of practical skills in the f
 ield of software engineering. Starting early on (2002) with Extreme Progra
 mming (XP)\, Alex quickly became a big proponent of agile mentality\, whic
 h led him to engage in DevOps practices. He is a published author and has 
 been invited to give talks at international high tech conferences. Alex is
  presently running a consulting agency and is functioning as Software Engi
 neering Practice Lead at WorkSafeBC. His consultancy is currently focused 
 on Test Driven Development (TDD)\, Continuous Integration (CI) and Service
  Virtualization. One of Alex’s claims to fame is that he has never been 
 asked to provide two pieces of ID when ordering a glass of beer in a resta
 urant.\n\nKevin Lindsay – “Emerging Challenges of AWS Orchestration”
 \nKevin is a founder of Waterbear Cloud\, software developer\, and technol
 ogy innovator with over 25 years of experience architecting and building s
 oftware products from concept to market. He has a passion for startups and
  building collaborative cultures that thrive on a good challenge. For the 
 past four years\, Kevin has been architecting and implementing automated o
 rchestration solutions for large and small companies in the financial and 
 technology industries.\n\nKevin will explore the emerging challenges of AW
 S orchestration. He will break down common architectures and share insight
 s into where most time is spent on DevOps. He will look at how orchestrati
 on solutions are put together and the emerging challenges they face\, and 
 review two new solutions\, each taking on these challenges in their own un
 ique way. Kevin will demonstrate how to use IaC templates and resource glu
 e to automate DevOps processes and alleviate some common challenges such a
 s configuration validation\, DRY configuration\, consistency between envir
 onments\, IAM permissions and keeping IaC in sync with provisioned infrast
 ructure. He’ll also compare the pros and cons of tools available in the 
 market.\n\nLOCATION: 8th Floor\, 815 W Hastings Street\, Vancouver\nTIME: 
 6.00pm (Pizza) for 6.30pm start\n\nThank you to LoginRadius for sponsoring
  this event.\n\nhttps://www.devopschat.co/meetings/devops-vancouver-meetup
 -march-2020
URL:https://www.devopschat.co/meetings/devops-vancouver-meetup-march-2020
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