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DevOps Society Meetup – Thursday 9th October @6PM

Location: Colony Fabrica, 269 Great Ancoats St, Manchester, M4 7DB

We’re excited to invite you to our next DevOps Society Meetup, hosted at Colony Fabrica in Manchester. This event brings together the DevOps, AI, and cloud-native community for an evening of conversation, learning, and networking.

A huge thank you to Colony for providing the venue, and support!

Format of the Meetup: 6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival, with pizza and drinks provided by ReVybe IT. 6:30pm – 7:10pm — First speaker will take to the stage 7:10pm – 7:20pm — Break for refreshments and networking 7:20pm – 8:00pm — Second speaker will take to the stage 8:00pm onwards — More networking at the venue and then at a nearby pub

Timings can vary depending on the length of the Q&A after each talk!

We are delighted to welcome two fantastic speakers to our event at Colony Fabrica.

SPEAKER 1 - Matt Houghton - Data & AI Architect @ CDL

AWS Community Builder \| AWS Ambassador \| AWS Gold Jacket Certification All-Star Matt is an Architect at CDL Software, where he spends his time undertaking R&D and working with customers and internal teams on their most complex challenges. He is an AWS Community Builder, AWS Ambassador, and holds every AWS certification. In 2021, Qlik recognised Matt as one of their 50 Global Luminaries for his measurable impact with data and community contributions.

Talk Title: Ensure the Security and Reliability of Your GenAI Workloads with Amazon Bedrock In this session, Matt will explore emerging risks associated with GenAI-based workloads and share strategies for testing, securing, and monitoring them using Amazon Bedrock. He’ll highlight and demonstrate some of the latest features announced for Amazon Bedrock, showcasing how they can help you design more effective and reliable GenAI workloads.

SPEAKER 2 - Ben Clark - DevOps Consultant Ben Clark is a DevOps consultant with over a decade of experience leading platform engineering and automation across large enterprises. He specialises in distributed systems, ML-Ops, and data engineering. Ben also maintains open-source projects at sudoblark.com and is pursuing a BSc in Computing and IT, focusing on the mathematics of machine learning and its application to constrained and embedded systems.

Talk Title: A Hands-On Introduction to Quantisation: From Neural Weights to Edge Deployment This session builds a working understanding of neural network weights using simple perceptrons, then explains how quantisation reduces model size and computation. Ben will walk through the practical steps of deploying a quantised model to a Raspberry Pi, demonstrating how these techniques make neural networks viable on constrained hardware.

Please RSVP to book your spot. Space is limited, so it’s first come, first served! We look forward to seeing you all there.

Ben & Vytas – Co-organisers.

A collaboration between DevOps Society and AutoTrader brings a Manchester-based meetup at the incredible AutoTrader offices. This meetup has talks about an AWS Migration via Matt Houghton, and FinOps with Adedeji Awolesi.

Our sponsors for this event are of course AutoTrader, who are hosting and providing food & drinks!

Format of the meetup event will be as follows:

6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with food and drinks provided by AutoTrader. 6:30pm – 7pm – First speaker will take to the stage. 7pm – 7:10pm – Break for refreshments and trips to the toilet. 7:10pm – 7:40pm – Second speaker will take to the stage. 8pm onwards – Networking at event space and the Mother Mary's Irish Bar (7-9 New Wakefield St, Manchester M1 5NP)

#1 – Matt Houghton – Data Architect @ CDL Matt is an Architect at CDL Software where he spends his time undertaking R&D and working with customers and CDL teams on their most challenging and complex AI, Data and Analytics problems. Matt is an AWS Ambassador, Community Builder and holds all AWS certifications. In 2021 Qlik named Matt one of their 50 Global Luminaries for driving measurable impacts from data and sharing with the community. @mattdevdba, https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-houghton-06b59010a/

Title: The AWS Cloud Migration Journey

In this session, Matt will walk through the entire journey of a real-life large-scale database migration from Oracle on premise to PostgreSQL in AWS. He will cover the process and share unique details, hits and tips covering zero downtime database migration, change data capture and schema conversion. Matt will show how his team made the databases not only cheaper by removing licence costs but also how they sped up our development teams by proving self-service features and made the applications run faster.

Finally, he will share the extra features built for PostgreSQL with the AWS Database Freedom team that were missing and how they open sourced these.

#2 – Adedeji Awolesi - Cloud Engineer @ SS&C Blue Prism Adedeji is a highly skilled & seasoned tech professional with a decade of experience in digital transformation, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and FinOps. His career journey has been marked by a deep commitment to excellence, continuous learning and a passion for leveraging cloud technologies to drive business innovation and efficiency.

Title: DevOps through a FinOps lense In this talk, Adedeji will talking a deep insight into the world of FinOps, how engineers can profit from it and give a highlight from the FinOps XE Conference in Barcelona. He will explore the intersection of DevOps and FinOps, demonstrating how financial accountability and operational excellence can go hand-in-hand. Attendees will learn practical strategies for managing cloud costs, optimizing resource usage, and driving financial transparency within their DevOps teams. Whether you’re a DevOps practitioner, a financial analyst, or a tech enthusiast, this session will provide valuable insights into creating a cost-effective and efficient DevOps environment.

P.S. Please provide full name and email address for access to the AutoTrader offices.

Address:

Auto Trader Group plc 4th Floor, 1 Tony Wilson Place Manchester M15 4FN

Please register now to book your spot for this exciting event!

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