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  • Upcoming Event: DevOps India Summit 2020

    Upcoming Event: DevOps India Summit 2020

    DevOps experts and business leaders from across the globe will come together to share their thoughts on DevSecOps, security and governance in DevOps during the third edition of DevOps India Summit (DOIS). Presented in a virtual environment, DOIS20 will take place on Sept. 9, at 9 a.m. IST.

    At DOIS20, attendees will have the opportunity to interact with industry experts and learn how they have successfully implemented DevSecOps practices. The DevOps practitioners will share their experience and expertise, focusing on their company’s transformation to DevSecOps.

    DOIS20 features an exceptional lineup of more than 35 DevOps thought leaders, including:

    • Mark Miller, senior storyteller and DevOps advocate at Sonatype (keynote speaker)
    • Piotr Lewandowski, senior staff site reliability engineer at Google Cloud (keynote speaker)
    • Alan Shimel, founder and CEO at MediaOps (keynote speaker)
    • Mirco Hering, global DevOps practice lead at Accenture (keynote speaker)
    • Rosalind Radcliff, distinguished engineer and chief architect for DevOps at IBM
    • Dr. Niladri Choudhuri, founder and CEO at Xellentro
    • Hasan Yasar, technical director at Software Engineering Institute
    • Sanjeev Sharma, co-founder and principal analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group and author of “The DevOps Adoption Playbook” and “DevOps For Dummies”
    • Vandana Verma, Global Board of Directors at OWASP Foundation
    • Ramesh Pasapula, assistant vice president at Wells Fargo
    • Sailaja Vadlamudi, director of security and data privacy at SAP Labs and WiCSP founder

    The online environment at DOIS20 features a lobby, an expo hall lined with booths full of downloadable resources and an auditorium where attendees can watch sessions from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. IST. The expo hall will be open throughout the event, giving attendees the opportunity to chat with vendor sponsors and download information.

    All registered attendees will have the chance to participate in contests and win incredible prizes, attend Q&A sessions with the speakers and will also receive a link to access the virtual summit on-demand.

    For more information and to register, visit the DevOps India Summit 2020 website.

  • Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Jon Herlocker and Miroslav Malecha

    Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Jon Herlocker and Miroslav Malecha

    The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

    Miroslav Malecha
    Jon Herlocker

    Jon Herlocker, president and CEO at Tignis, is one of the speakers that will be presenting at the Time Series Virtual Summit.

    Jon invites anybody who has the responsibility to turn large quantities of sensor data from physical plants or manufacturing lines into business value to attend his session, “How an Analytics Platform Detects Reliability Threats and Eliminates Obstacles Impeding Results Using InfluxDB.”

    “Viewers will see Tignis’ unique physics-driven approach to machine learning for physical plants and manufacturing lines,” said Jon. “We’ll also share our approach to using InfluxDB to accelerate delivery of our solution to our customers.”

    Jon will discuss how Tignis uses IoT sensors to reduce unexpected downtime at manufacturing plants and school campuses. Attendees will learn how by using a time series database they can improve their competitive advantage and accelerate their go-to-market strategy.

    “Time series data from physical plants and manufacturing lines can be turned into significant business value, and we have proven that InfluxDB can be an effective component of that,” said Jon.

    Another time series specialist that will be sharing his knowledge and his experience with InfluxDB is Miroslav Malecha, director of product management at Bonitoo.

    In his session, “Using Time Series for Geo-Temporal Analysis,” Miroslav will discuss how to use InfluxDB’s Flux for Geo-Temporal analysis. He’ll briefly cover what Flux is, how to use specific Flux geo functions and finish with a quick demo of how to use InfluxDB.

    You can hear from Jon, Miroslav and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

  • Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Al Sargent and Samantha Wang

    Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Al Sargent and Samantha Wang

    The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

    Samantha Wang
    Al Sargent

    Al Sargent and Samantha Wang of InfluxData are on a mission to help developers understand how time series databases provide real-time observability and monitoring.

    “The best software engineering teams in the world understand that time series data is different; it can’t be managed using a traditional database, and requires a purpose-built database,” said Al Sargent, senior director of product marketing at InfluxData.

    Al will be the first speaker to take the virtual stage at the Time Series Virtual Summit. During his presentation, he will explore the unique challenges of managing time-series data, why time series data needs to be treated differently than other data types and what to look for in a time series database.

    Any developer that’s building applications using time series data (or planning to), such as data from IoT sensors, monitoring data or customer usage data will benefit from Al’s educational session.

    Another great session you must definitely attend is “Monitor your Cloud Metrics with Time Series” by Samantha Wang, product manager at InfluxData.

    Samantha will discuss the importance of time series data for cloud monitoring, and how you can view your metrics in real time with InfluxDB Cloud.

    “I will walk through how to write metrics into InfluxDB Cloud using Telegraf and how users can take their analysis one step further with Flux,” said Samantha. “Lastly, I will review InfluxDB Templates, one of our newest community InfluxDB products, that provides a packaged solution for various common monitoring use cases.”

    Join Al and Samantha to learn more about time series databases and understand how InfluxDB Cloud can be your end-to-end solution for writing data to monitoring and alerting — all optimized for time series data.

    You can hear from Al, Samantha and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

  • Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: John Gleeson and Benjamin Sirb

    Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: John Gleeson and Benjamin Sirb

    The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

    Benjamin Sirb
    John Gleeson

    John Gleeson and Benjamin Sirb of Storj Labs, will be at the Time Series Virtual Summit to discuss how the InfluxDB contributes to Stroj’s decentralized cloud storage platform.

    “Our team uses time series data to operate our decentralized cloud storage platform, which provides enterprise-grade object storage and is the largest of its kind,” said John Gleeson, vice president of operations at Storj Labs.

    Tardigrade, powered by Storj Labs, offers decentralized cloud storage that is automatically encrypted, easily implemented, highly performant, very economical and resilient. By equipping their customers with fast, secure and fully distributed storage, their users no longer need to manage their infrastructure. The Storj platform enables applications to store and share data across a distributed network with end-to-end encryption.

    In their talk, John and Ben will dive into:

    • Storj’s redefinition of a cloud object storage network.
    • How InfluxData fits into Storj’s Open Source Partner Program.
    • Collecting and managing high volume real-time telemetry data from a distributed network.

    “Attendees can expect a deep dive on how time series data allows for real-time analysis of a highly complex system, which operates in a low trust environment while maintaining industry standard SLA’s for data availability and durability,” said Benjamin Sirb, senior data scientist at Storj Labs.

    As vice president of operations, John is responsible for direct sales, partnerships, customer success, community, product management and data science as well as growing the international presence for the Storj decentralized and distributed cloud storage network. He is responsible for operationalizing core processes to ensure the business scales as the company and network grow.

    Ben joined Storj Labs in 2018, bringing six years of experience in academia, research and consulting to his role as senior data scientist. Drawing from his knowledge of probability theory, Ben has been instrumental in researching the theoretical foundations and practical applications of decentralized networks at Storj.

    If there is one thing they both would like the audience to keep in mind is that “the data science behind distributed and decentralized cloud storage is intense!”

    Join John and Ben to discover how InfluxDB is a component to Storj’s Tardigrade service and workflows.

    You can hear from Ben, John and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

  • Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: James Governor, Sameer Farooqui and Russ Savage

    Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: James Governor, Sameer Farooqui and Russ Savage

    The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

     

    Russ Savage
    Russ Savage
    Sameer Farooqui
    Sameer Farooqui
    James Governor
    James Governor

    The Time Series Virtual Summit features a stellar lineup of time series experts, including Sameer Farooqui, Russ Savage and keynote speaker James Governor.

    James Governor is an analyst and co-founder at RedMonk. James advises developers on technology strategies, open source and how to be more productive. During his keynote presentation, “Reframing and Retooling for Observability,” he will explain how observability is changing the way applications are built and managed. James will also discuss what this means for developers and how observability can be used to derive deep insights into system performance and user experience.

    Sameer Farooqui is a strategic cloud engineer at Google. Sameer focuses on Streaming Analytics and helps commercialize new streaming solutions such as time series forecasting and anomaly detection. In his session, “Analytics and ML on Time Series Data in Google Cloud,” Sameer will talk about the benefits of running time series databases in the Google Cloud Platform, and how to take advantage of Google Analytics tools.

    Russ Savage is a product manager at InfluxData, where he focuses on enabling DevOps for teams using InfluxDB and the TICK Stack. Russ will give the closing remarks, wrapping up the event with ways to get involved and learn more about the time series community.

    You can hear from James, Sameer, Russ and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

  • Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy

    Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy

    The Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy virtual event will explore the state of development and DevOps in the finance industry, and how organizations can digitally transform their strategy in order to release new, compliant applications and safely adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business. The virtual event will take place on July 9 at 2:30 p.m. CEST (8:30 a.m. ET).

    CloudBees is bringing together a stellar line-up of thought leaders to discuss the impact of digital transformation in financial services, including:

    • Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees
    • Jost Hoppermann, VP and principal analyst at Forrester
    • Chafin Bryant, software engineering manager at Capital One
    • Keith Blizard, SVP of public cloud services at Fidelity Investments

    The experts will discuss the challenges the financial services industry faces in adopting DevOps.

    At the Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy virtual event you will learn:

    • How to assure separation of duties and access controls without stifling innovation.
    • About Capital One’s DevOps success story and how they’ve tackled some of the unique challenges of CI/CD in the finance industry.
    • How to incorporate legacy and hybrid technology into your release trains and processes.
    • How to scale across geographies, teams, applications, regulations and environments – and still get the velocity and reliability expected by the business.
    • About Fidelity’s cloud transformation journey and CI/CD best practices.
    • How to build bridges across devs and ops; employees and contractors.

    Join the CloudBees community and learn how to future-proof your digital transformation strategy. To check out the agenda and to register, visit the Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy website.

  • Upcoming Event: Time Series Virtual Summit

    Upcoming Event: Time Series Virtual Summit

    The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT.

    This virtual event will focus on the impact of time series data and how it can be used to help build and optimize solutions for real-time visibility into stacks, sensors and systems.

    Here’s a preview of some of the speakers:

    • James Governor, analyst and co-founder at RedMonk
    • Al Sargent, senior director of product marketing at InfluxData
    • John Gleeson, VP of operations at Tardigrade.io
    • Jon Herlocker, president and CEO at Tignis
    • Michael Ellis, community manager at InfluxData

    Plus, speakers from companies such as AWS, Google, Microsoft and more.

    The industry leaders will share their thoughts on time series data, discuss the benefits of a time series database and the challenges of data management.

    At the Time Series Virtual Summit you will learn:

    • How to use a time series database to improve their competitive advantage and accelerate their go-to-market strategy.
    • How to manage risk in decentralized networks with time series.
    • How IoT can help manufacturers reduce downtime.
    • How to use observability to derive deep insights into system performance and user experience.

    The online environment features a lobby, an expo hall lined with booths full of downloadable resources, and an auditorium where attendees can watch the sessions. You can interact directly with time series experts and network with other attendees by joining the chat rooms.

    Discover what’s next from the InfluxData community and learn how you can get involved. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

  • 6 Virtual DevOps Conferences You Can’t Afford to Miss in June 2020

    6 Virtual DevOps Conferences You Can’t Afford to Miss in June 2020

    Conferences and events make up to a trillion-dollar industry and have been playing a major role in connecting people from different parts of the world and exchange ideas. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the first major tech conference that got canceled due to health and safety concerns was the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual gathering of electronics makers.

    Along the way, similarly, Facebook also canceled all physical conferences and events through June 2021, including the major F8 Developer Conference and the most awaited Oculus Connect 7 virtual reality event that was supposed to be held in San Jose, CA.

    Even Microsoft, the giant, has announced all of its events are going digital-only until July 2021, including its flagship Microsoft Build and the prestigious Microsoft Ignite 2020.

    At the beginning of April, more than 30,000 people were expected to attend the prestigious Google Cloud Next ’20 conference, all set to happen in San Francisco. But, as the coronavirus crisis intensified all over the world, keeping the attendees’ and employees’ safety in mind, Google decided to move the entire event online.

    Today, we will see six virtual DevOps conferences you can’t afford to miss in June.

    TechStrong Con

    Date: June 4

    Cost: Free

    TechStrong Con is a virtual summit dedicated to and celebrating all things tech. The event, hosted by MediaOps, brings together some of the most prestigious industry leaders for 12 hours of immersive learning and networking. The sessions are divided into three tracks: Emerging Technologies, Security/DevSecOps and Digital Transformation. Attendees will have access to downloadable resources and will have the chance to interact with tech leaders and fellow DevOps practitioners.

    You can also be a part of the #TechStrongCon Challenge, which consists in sharing a photo of your work-from-home space during COVID-19 on LinkedIn for a chance to win either an iPad Pro or a DJI Maxic Drone.

    A portion of the proceeds raised from the event will be donated to charities dedicated to fighting COVID-19. For more information on the event and the challenge visit the TechStrong Con website.

    Agile + DevOps

    Date: June 8–11

    Free Pass: $0

    Conference Pass: $499

    All-Access Pass: $999

    The theme of the event is “accelerating software delivery with the power of Agile and DevOps.” This is an event by TechWell, and this time it is happening fully virtual. From the comfort of your own digital device, sitting at your home, or wherever you are, you will have access to all of the great content and experts the Agile + DevOps conference is known for. This time, the event will be streaming over 90+ talks—including five keynotes, 25 tutorials, more than 50 sessions and 14+ Industry Technical Presentations. All this is happening over an engaging and interactive premium virtual atmosphere. You can select the conference package that fits your needs and your budget.

    DevSecCon 24 

    Date: June 15 -16

    Cost: Free

    This virtual conference focuses mainly on the security aspect in development and operations and tackles the impact of development operations and security “run by practitioners, for practitioners.” 

    The aim here is to show attendees how DevOps and security can work together seamlessly to make continuously secure development a reality.

    This virtual expo allows for interaction with different vendors and companies. Check their website for updated details.

    swampUP

    Date: June 23-24

    Cost: $20 (all goes to charity)

    swampUP is JFrog’s annual DevOps conference, and this time it is happening in a virtual format with two full days of action-packed DevOps talks and training. The conference has a remarkable set of visionary keynotes and thought‑provoking DevOps sessions delivered by industry experts. 

    Leap into DevOps, DevSecOps and cloud-native best practices with practical training by experts delivered virtually. Sessions are experimented and thoroughly designed for developers, administrators and managers. This is regarded as one of the industry-recognized conferences of all time.

    DevOps Enterprise Summit London

    Date: June 23-25

    Cost: $240 – $480

    Gene Kim’s IT Revolution hosts this event. DevOps Enterprise Summit has great speakers and exciting courses provided by experts. It is a place for exchanging DevOps success stories and best practices. 

    Some of the big brands such as Adidas, Walmart, John Deere, Capital One and many others are participating. Attendees will get three days of immersive learning and interaction with fellow technology leaders.

    Cloud Foundry Summit

    June 24-25

    Attendee Registration: $50

    Academic Registration: $35

    Cloud Foundry Summit is where developers, architects, operators, CIOs and other IT professionals meet to share the best software and IT practices and innovate together. Simplifying developer experience is the theme of the conference where both days are filled with interesting sessions and hands-on labs. 

    This is where you will learn how to automate, scale, and manage cloud apps throughout their lifecycle. 

    It looks like virtual is the new normal for the events industry and for the companies looking to host future events. The upsides of the virtual format of the conferences are many: It is easy to attend, saves a lot of money we used to spend on travel, stay, food, etc. and eliminates the effort and fatigue that used to happen while attending a physical conference happening in some other city or country. Well, thinking positively about any situation makes you feel good, and I hope we will get out of this COVID pandemic as soon as possible.

  • Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Celebrating the Tech Community

    Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Celebrating the Tech Community

    During these crazy times, I can’t help but wonder, how would I even survive being on lockdown for so long if it wasn’t for technology? It is the one thing that has kept most of us sane while stuck inside during this crisis.

    Apps like Instacart and Zoom have been a hit during the pandemic. Why leave the house to go grocery shopping and risk exposure to the virus when you can get your groceries delivered at your doorstep? And thanks to video conferencing services like Zoom, you can have face-to-face meetings with your boss and colleagues, or socialize with your friends and family during happy hour.

    Of course, it doesn’t stop there. Tech companies, such as Google and Facebook, have done a great job in providing information on COVID-19 from trusted sources, tips on how to take care of yourself and ways to deal with staying home.

    Let’s not forget all the entertaining dance moves we have learned from apps like TikTok, and all the nights we’ve spent binge watching our favorite shows on Netflix. According to Netflix’s quarterly earnings report, the streaming service gained more than 15 million subscribers between January and March.

    Technology has helped businesses to carry on working and it has helped all of us to stay strong during these hard and uncertain times.

    To celebrate the tech community, MediaOps is hosting the first-ever TechStrong Con, a virtual event that brings together some of the most prestigious industry leaders from companies including Microsoft, JFrog, Red Hat, IBM, GitLab and many more for 12 hours of immersive learning and networking.

    Taking place on June 4, starting at 9 a.m. EDT, the event will feature a wide range of tech-related topics, from hardware and applications to processes and business of tech. The sessions are divided into three tracks: Emerging Technologies, Security/DevSecOps and Digital Transformation.

    Become a part of the event, get downloadable resources and interact with tech leaders and other attendees. Registrants will also be able to participate in TechStrong raffles for a chance to win one of the following prizes:

    • An Xbox One X 1TB Console – Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Bundle
    • One set of Bose 700 Noise Cancelling Wireless Bluetooth Headphones 
    • One pair of Apple AirPods Pro
    • 10 Amazon gift cards (valued at $50 each)

    Strengthen your skills, improve your best practices, empower your teams and become stronger than yesterday. Together we are strong, together we are TechStrong!

  • Low-Code and RPA With Appian CTO Michael Beckley

    Low-Code and RPA With Appian CTO Michael Beckley

    On the eve of the first virtual Appian World, we caught up with Appian founder and CTO Michael Beckley. Michael spoke to us about low-code and RPA as well as AI and robotics, all being leveraged to help organizations during the COVID-19 crisis.

    Obviously, given the current situation, developing applications quickly with a minimum of coding while harnessing automation and AI would be a big premium. This is a situation that seems perfect for Appian.

    In fact, the whole low-code and RPA model seems tailor-made for a COVID-like situation. Michael shares with us several instances of healthcare and governmental agencies using Appian and RPA to deliver massively scalable applications to measure and gather data around COVID-19.

    Low-code and RPA are not just COVID-19 trends, either. Michael and I discussed why the new normal will reward organizations that use RPA and low-code, as well as harnessing AI and robotics to build apps that can scale massively quickly with minimal coding.

    If Michael is correct, Appian is in an enviable position to deliver a robust, proven platform that will allow organizations to harness the power of low-code and RPA.

    My discussion with Michael is below. While Appian World virtual kicks off today, Michael actually delivers the keynote for the second day of Appian World on Wednesday. If you get a moment, don’t miss Michael’s talk. He has some great insight into how low-code and RPA can be a benefit during the COVID-19 crisis.

    While you’re at it, I highly recommend attending as much of Appian World that you can. I had the pleasure of attending one in Miami two years ago and was very much looking forward to this year’s event in Ft. Lauderdale, before it was converted to a virtual event. Appian’s hackathon is usually a great event to check out at Appian World as well.