Tech in Focus – DevOps, WTIA, April 30

Tech in Focus – DevOps, WTIA

When: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Where: Google – 601 N 34th St, Seattle

What: DevOps is all the rage. Everybody seems to be hiring – at this moment, there are more than 600 DevOps job openings on Dice. 30 just in Seattle.

What’s it all about? Developers are expected to create new features and applications daily in response to the actual and predicted needs of the end user – which can require hourly develop, test, and push-to-production cycles. Meanwhile, operations are expected to achieve 99.999% availability for any device, anywhere on earth, every day – which requires methodical attention to process and detail with limited changes. DevOps is an attempt to fuse these two polar opposite engineering disciplines.

The impact of Agile on development methodologies, Open Source on development resources, Cloud-hosted databases and applications on systems reliability are all interrelated with DevOps. If a company can integrate the code release processes with documentation, collaboration, and some modest amount of system automation, it can in fact achieve the strange juxtaposition of a nimble front end with a stable back end.

Join the WTIA’s Tech in Focus event as they welcome a panel of experts to discuss the strategies that companies are using to hire, train, launch products, build stable systems, and make money with DevOps.

Who:

Facilitator – Paul Owen – Founder/Account Director – Owen Media
Speaker – Jay Wampold – VP of Marketing – Chef
Speaker – Nimret Sandhu – Solutions Architect – Dev9
Speaker – George Sadlier – Site Reliability Manager – Google

How Much: TBD

How: Register here.