Mid-Cities DevOps is going under some changes and to celebrate, we’re hosting a half-day conference! Say ‘Hello’ to the new “DevOps Live” — a group that knows no geographical bounds and hosts events live online. We shatter walls that divide Developers and IT Operations.
Sail or Fail? Navigating Test Automation Pitfalls
July 5, 2012 by
Speaker: Paul Grizzaffi
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Paladin
Sailing the treacherous waters of test automation is challenging at best. From executives thinking “it’s going to fix all of our quality problems, right?” to team members saying “no, that’s YOUR job,” our automation initiatives face an uphill battle with a tendency to struggle… or at least to not achieve their full potential. Let’s shed some light on several of these challenges and pitfalls while discussing some of the approaches we can use to avoid a voyage on the SS Failboat.
Paul Grizzaffi is the QA Automation Architect and Manager for Online Technology at GameStop. His career has focused on the creation and deployment of automated test frameworks, tools, and platforms. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and is a Certified Scrum Master (CSA) from Scrum Alliance. Paul has created automation platforms and tool frameworks based on proprietary, open source, and vendor supplied tool chains in diverse product environments (telecom, stock trading, and online/digital retail). He looks forward to expanding his automation and QA knowledge for other product environments.
Agile Testing Tactics for WaterFail, FrAgile, ScrumBut, Kantban, and DevFlops
June 29, 2012 by
Speaker: Tim Lyon
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Paladin
Agile development is being used more and more but the Quality Assurance personnel and management are playing catch-up to be able to work in a lean environment and still produce quality testing. Waterfail, FrAgile, ScrumBut, KantBan, and DevFlops are all various amalgamations of different methodologies trying to be shoe horned into existing development and delivery patterns that tend to fall short in quality assurance practices. No one practice fits all but there are various tactics that can be used to help address some of those concerns and better limit the delivery quality exposure – especially in tight turn around projects.
RHQ – Enterprise Management Platform
May 22, 2012 by
Speaker: Stefan Negrea
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Paladin
This presentation is an introduction to RHQ, a pluggable management platform for administering, monitoring, alerting, and configuring enterprise resources. The presentation will also feature a demo of the recently introduced platform REST interface.
Concurrency in Clojure
April 28, 2012 by
Speaker: Matt Havener
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Paladin
This talk gives an introduction to Clojure and a concurrency simulation demonstrating the features of Clojure including: threading, actors, references, Java interop, and higher order functions.
Distributed Domain Driven Design
April 4, 2012 by
Speaker: John Jelinek IV
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Paladin
We will explore Distributed Domain Driven Design (DDDD) for building complex business application while maintaining flexibility. Effectively, we will be building a business blueprint that can be deployed to the cloud.
Build better building blocks with SOA
March 17, 2012 by
Speaker: Sreeramulu Jadapolu
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Improving Enterprises
Software can easily get really complex. Do you ever feel like the technology drives the business rather than the other way around? Learn how to reel it back in with this month’s talk: Building Better Building Blocks with SOA.
Infrastructure in One Hour
February 2, 2012 by
Speaker: Alex Soncodi
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Improving Enterprises
This discussion covers the basics of setting up an instance on Amazon’s EC2 platform. We will show you how to create and boot your own AMI micro instance from an official Ubuntu EC2 image and set up the canonical LAMP stack.
Then, for kicks, we’ll set up a Git repository and some update/backup shell scripts for a one-click-update style RAD setup. This discussion is aimed at beginner-intermediate developer/network admin.