Events

I have recently done a couple of streamable events with our friends at Grey Matter. Both are now available to enjoy on demand: Grey Matter Talks Tech podcast ‘Inside GitHub: The Platform Powering Open Sources Grey Matter’s on-demand Webinar ‘Inside the Developer’s Toolkit’ with JetBrains and SmartBear If these sort of subjects are on interest, why not come to an in person event? I am speaking, as may other great speakers including my colleague Andrew Wilson, at Grey Matter’s Tech Summit in London on the 24th of September, and best news of all it is free. ...

There is still time to register for the free Global DevOps Experience which is being run on the 15th of June at many venues around the world, including Black Marble’s offices. The Global DevOps Experience is a day full of learning and fun, as we immerse you in the world of DevOps and AI. You will learn about the latest trends and technologies, and work in a team to solve challenging exercises based around a realistic business scenario. ...

Background In past years, pre Covid, Black Marble hosted a venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp, a community run in person hackathon event. After a short hiatus, I am pleased to be able to say this event has a successor, the Global DevOps Experience which is being run on the 15th of June at many venues around the world, including Black Marble’s offices. What will be involved? The Global DevOps Experience is a day full of learning and fun, as we immerse you in the world of DevOps and AI. You will learn about the latest trends and technologies, and work in a team to solve challenging exercises based around a realistic business scenario. ...

Update: This event has been rescheduled for the 4th May. The new registration link is here I’m speaking at the Microsoft and GitHub DevOps Forum on the 10th of March. To register - https://mktoevents.com/Microsoft+Event/325749/157-GQE-382

I am really pleased to say that we at Black Marble are again hosting a venue for this year’s edition of the Global DevOps Bootcamp on Saturday May 30th 2020. For those who have not been to a previous GDBC event at Black Marble, or any of the other 70+ venues across the work, what can you expect on the day? A video keynote from an Industry Leader in the DevOps field A local keynote developing the topics of the bootcamp The remainder of the day is made up of team based hands on exercises. Lat years content can be seen here, this years will be all new. ...

Registration for the new season of Black Marble events have just been opened. If you can make it to Yorkshire why not come to an event (or two) Azure DevOps: So VSTS has Changed - 24 Oct 2018 Next Generation Business Productivity with Office 365 and Teams - 25 Oct 2018 Moving your Development Process to the Cloud with Azure DevOps - 14 Nov 2018 Modernising Enterprise Information Architecture - 21 Nov 2018 Next Generation Business Productivity with Office 365 and Teams - 05 Dec 2018 Architecture Forum in the North – 11 - 12 Dec 2018 Moving your Development Process to the Cloud with Azure DevOps -16 Jan 2019 If you are stuck in the grim south, why not look out for us at Future Decoded in London at the end of the month ...

There are still a few spaces left at the Yorkshire Global DevOps BootCamp Venue hosted at Black Marble Come and learn about all things cool in DevOps, including Video keynote by Microsoft Local keynote: Breaking down the Monolith Hackathon/HandsOn DevOps challenges. The hands-on part with be based on a common application where we try to solve as many challenges as possible, including ideas like How to containerize an existing application How to add telemetry (app insights) to the application and gather hypothesis information How to use telemetry to monitor availability How to use feature toggles to move application into production without disrupting end users How to use release gates How to make DB schema changes Use Blue Green Deployments And there is free lunch too! To register click here ...