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SUMMARY:March 2020 Meetup
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE REGISTER HERE IN ORDER TO GAIN BUILDING ACCESS ON THE EV
 ENING: http://bit.ly/LCDMarch17\n\nJoin us for an evening of great discuss
 ions & talks and beer & pizza.\n\nWe'll start off with the food and the dr
 inks at 6.30pm.\n\nTalk 1: Applying CI/CD outside it’s natural habitat -
  Delivering IP networking software to Router manufacturers by David Parker
 \n\nThe use of CI/CD is well established for delivering SaaS applications 
 but what if that’s not your context? Testing and release cycles in indus
 tries such as telecoms equipment and many others can still be measured in 
 months or even years for many organisations.\n\nIn this talk\, I’ll desc
 ribe how our team at Metaswitch Networks applied CI/CD techniques to trans
 form the delivery of IP network protocol software to our customers\, who u
 se it to build the routers that power the internet. That has helped us to 
 move from big annual releases to having software that is always shippable 
 to any customer\, and the team are happier and more efficient too!\n\nI’
 ll cover…\n\n• How we got management buy-in and funding by using story
 -telling\, surveys and by some quick and dirty prototyping.\n• Why setti
 ng up a dedicated team succeeded when reserving time within existing devel
 opment teams had failed.\n• How we built a network level automation fram
 ework using Docker\, Ansible and other open source tools.\n• Why a test 
 scheduling and reporting system transformed the way people tested and beca
 me a victim of its own success.\n• How we scaled using cloud bursting to
  cater for peak load.\n• Why Continuous Delivery of the docs proved one 
 of the hardest nuts to crack!\n\nDavid Parker is an Engineering Manager in
  the Networking Software Team at Metaswitch Networks. He has particular re
 sponsibilities for Engineering Productivity\, Automation\, Testing and Del
 ivery.\n\nDavid has worked in various Development and Management roles acr
 oss Metaswitch for the last 18 years. He has a passion for helping enginee
 rs to properly understand all aspects of software quality\, and for using 
 automation and CI/CD to deliver quickly and reliably.\n\nTalk 2: 4 Questio
 ns to Ask Your Dev Team by Hannah Foxwell\n\nGood collaboration between Pl
 atform Teams and Application Teams is critical for delivering any producti
 on service. Practices such as site reliability engineering and continuous 
 delivery must be understood by everyone to be effective\, but creating tha
 t shared understanding can be hard in an existing organization. In this ta
 lk\, Hannah will provide a simple guide to getting started.\n\nOur experie
 nce has shown us that Platform Teams and Application Teams don’t talk en
 ough\, and we don’t talk about the right things. This session will give 
 you four simple questions to start that dialogue—you might be surprised 
 what you learn if you ask the right questions!\n\nHannah Foxwell is Associ
 ate Director at Pivotal Labs (now part of VMware). Hannah is a champion of
  the HumanOps movement and organises DevOpsDays London.\n\nMeetup Retro - 
 Please visit the following retro board:\nhttp://bit.ly/LondonCD\n\nhttps:/
 /www.devopschat.co/meetings/march-2020-meetup
URL:https://www.devopschat.co/meetings/march-2020-meetup
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