Merge pull request #21 from margaretvaltie/checkpoint

Checkpoint

Author: margaretvaltie

content/events/2019-belo-horizonte/registration.md

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 Description = "Registre-se e adquira o ingresso para o DevOpsDays Belo Horizonte 2019"
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-Em breve!

content/events/2019-dallas/program/ross-clanton.md

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 Talk_date = ""
 Talk_start_time = ""
 Talk_end_time = ""
-Title = "TBA"
+Title = "Enterprise Transformation Lessons Learned"
 Type = "talk"
 Speakers = ["ross-clanton"]
 Youtube = ""
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 ##### KEYNOTE TALK ABSTRACT
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+In this talk, Ross will provide real world examples of the challenges impacting large-scale DevOps transformations and advice on how to overcome them. This is based on his first hand experience leading transformation in two Fortune 50 companies and through his direct collaboration and research with many other leaders driving transformation in F500 companies.
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+This talk will be a story telling format of real failures that happened at different companies and what the impact of those failures were.  Additionally, a new narrative will be shared for these stories to help drive home key learnings on how to successfully navigate complex enterprise environments to achieve transformation success.
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+These stories will hit home for many in the audience.  So much so that they will likely feel like the story is about their company.  Attendees will walk away with a greater appreciation for what it takes to drive change in large enterprises, guidance on how to navigate these changes, and will hopefully be inspired to push harder for change within their respective organizations.

content/events/2019-london/program.md

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content/events/2019-london/program/abdulbasit-kabir.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Moving to Kubernetes, or not?"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["abdulbasit-kabir"]
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+Kubernetes has become quite a popular tool as adoption has been growing giving rise to developers "DevOps"  exploring while pushing for adoption within their organisations. This talk is one such story; giving an account of our experience in moving (or not) to Kubernetes.

content/events/2019-london/program/aditya-vadaganadam.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Zagility - we need to talk about mainframes and modern engineering practices!"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["aditya-vadaganadam"]
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+
+In my talk I focus on the exciting things happening in the space of mainframes and modern engineering and share my experiences with the community. My objective is to change the perspective of the DevOps community in London and encourage more engineers to look at mainframes as a viable career alternative. Or, at least remove the negative bias that I have seen towards the mainframe stack. 
+Consider the fact that all 25 of the world's top banks still use mainframes. The reason is the mainframes are so core and intertwined in our core IT systems 
+However, something exciting has been happening over the last couple of years. Many of the engineering practices we take for granted in the open systems world - CI/CD, Test automation, code coverage, virtualisation etc are all being implemented in the mainframe world
+Mainframes are often the under-appreciated workhorses and it is time to rediscover them!

content/events/2019-london/program/carolina-gilabert.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Panic Driven Development"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["carolina-gilabert"]
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+
+We often think of our automated testing and build pipelines as something important to our stakeholders, to assert the stability of our system. Some developers think of testing as a chore, or something that slows you down.
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+This short talk is a story from earlier in my career, a cautionary tale even. I then make the argument that quality gates and automated processes can be invaluable for junior engineers, as they provide the freedom to contribute without fear.

content/events/2019-london/program/david-mckay.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "The DShell Pattern"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["david-mckay"]
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+
+Docker isn't the answer. Docker is a means to an end.
+
+Learn how to integrate Docker into your development workflow without ever knowing it's there.

content/events/2019-london/program/dominique-top-margo-gantner.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "All aboard, Meetup Mates! How we’ve set sail towards making the Meetup scene in London fun for everyone."
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["dominique-top", "margo-gantner"]
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+
+Keeping up with the rate of change in the technology landscape is hard and even though there are all-day conferences, boot-camps and workshops you can attend, attending local Meetups are an easier accessible and more cost-effective way to learn and interact with people who are trying to solve the same problems as you are, or if you want to socialize with people with similar interests. 
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+Going to these events however can be a daunting ordeal, for example when you’ve just moved to the city, don’t have anyone to go with or feel like you don’t belong at a certain group because you haven’t used a certain technology yet. 
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+Dominique and Margo founded Meetup Mates to do what we can to give back to the community, because we believe everyone should be able to enjoy these events as much as we do. With over 80 sign-ups in the first month, the goal is to make attending Meetups a fun and more inclusive experience for everyone. This ignite will provide you a platform to confidently go to your first Meetup or be able to (find your) mentor tomorrow!
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content/events/2019-london/program/edward-thomson.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Git Top Tips"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["edward-thomson"]
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+
+Git is universal, used by nearly every developer and software team. Despite its
+ubiquity, it's a complex system with more than a few sharp edges. Line endings?
+Binary files? Lost data? Edward Thomson shows tips and tricks to help make sure
+that you're avoiding the pitfalls and instead using Git to its full potential.
+

content/events/2019-london/program/emanuil-tolev.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "YAML Considered Harmful"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["emanuil-tolev"]
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+We have all become YAML engineers, because everybody loves it, right?! Sometimes it can also burn you pretty badly and this is what this talk is about.

content/events/2019-london/program/helen-joy.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Digital inclusion: designing for everyone"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["helen-joy"]
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+
+As creators of products and services, we’re pretty good at thinking we’ve got it all sussed. We map user journeys, we create roadmaps, we write user stories. We know what we want people to do; what actions we want them to take. But do we really know who these people are? Do we really know what they need? Do we take the time to find out, or are we building products and services based on our own assumptions and biases?

content/events/2019-london/program/jon-vines.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Unleash your DevOps with Serverless"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["jon-vines"]
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+
+When looking at the principles and practices of DevOps as well as the opportunity of adopting Serverless, we can be left thinking if these two approaches to delivering software compatible? The original premise of DevOps was to bring developers and operations closer together. Serverless architectures attempt to remove the operational burden as much as possible. Framed this way, you’d think they were incompatible, but DevOps has come along way since those early beginnings. We’ll use the three ways to look at how using Serverless takes us closer to operating with a DevOps mindset.

content/events/2019-london/program/nayana-shetty.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Monitoring Decoded, Why What and How? in 5 Ignite minutes"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["nayana-shetty"]
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+
+Some of the common question engineers have around monitoring are, “Why should
+I monitor my service?”, “How do I monitor my service?” and “What tools do I use
+to do this?”. In this talk we will go through some of the key reasons for us to
+monitor our services and systems. We will then see some methods like the
+USE(Utilisation, Saturation and Error) and RED(Rate Error Duration) methods
+that help us identify what to monitor in a consistent manner. Lastly, we will
+cover some broad classification of tools that help us achieve this including
+some real examples of monitoring some systems and services at the Financial
+Times.

content/events/2019-london/program/nik-knight.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Using Coaching Skills to Grow Compassion, Empathy and Kindness in DevOps"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["nik-knight"]
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+
+An increasing number of people within tech are talking about compassion, empathy and kindness as being necessary to build great DevOps teams and solutions - and yet not everyone seems to view these as things that can be learned or taught. As a discipline, coaching uses all three to great advantage - and the good news is that basic coaching skills can be learned by anyone. Not only that, but they can be applied to a wide variety of contexts.
+
+In this talk, I will describe the GROW model for holding coaching-style conversations, with the aim of giving the audience some practical tools to take away with them. I will also show how I have applied this framework to help everyone in a DevOps environment work together more effectively - with compassion, empathy and kindness.
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content/events/2019-london/speakers.md

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 Title = "Speakers"
 Type = "speakers"
-Description = "Speakers for devopsdays london 2019"
+Description = "Speakers for devopsdays London 2019"
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content/events/2019-london/speakers/abdulbasit-kabir.md

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+Title = "AbdulBasit Kabir"
+Twitter = "abulkay"
+image = "abdulbasit-kabir.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "abdulbasit-kabir"
+
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+
+AbdulBasit Kabir is a creative problem solver looking for the next challenge. He is always thinking of how to innovatively improve systems and processes. AbdulBasit has spearheaded DevOps for several teams, setting up and automating software processes. He has also been part of the infrastructure team designing scalable deployment architectures which power over 500 tenants and thousands of users across multiple software spanning several locations in Africa. He enjoys writing code and about code, building software and is passionate about improving himself, teams and process.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/aditya-vadaganadam.md

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+Title = "Aditya Vadaganadam"
+Twitter = "adihere"
+image = "aditya-vadaganadam.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "aditya-vadaganadam"
+
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+
+I live in South London and a new local presenter to DevOpsdays London. I started my career in open systems and due to a HR error (no kidding) I was parachuted into a mainframe project where I was a developer for a while before getting back into the open systems. More recently  over the last few years, I have started focusing more on enabling mainframe teams to adopt modern ways of working and this time out of my own interest.
+I help ​technology teams transform into simpler, smarter and safer delivery​ units by adopting agile principles and methods, DevOps approaches, modern engineering practices, lean process improvements and newer operating models. My career since 2000 has spanned the spectrum of software life cycle from development to deployment across modern digital and legacy technology stacks and diverse cultural contexts across Asia, Africa and Europe.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/carolina-gilabert.md

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+Title = "Carolina Gilabert"
+Twitter = "CarolSaysThings"
+image = "carolina-gilabert.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "carolina-gilabert"
+
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+Carol is a software engineer at Capital One, working with React and Node.js. She is passionate about empathy and DevOps, and loves learning new things.
+
+When not buying pink things, Carol can be found doing cartwheels in a nearby Capoeira roda.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/david-mckay.md

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+Title = "David McKay"
+Twitter = "rawkode"
+# image = "david-mckay.png"
+image = ""
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "david-mckay"
+
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+David is a Developer Advocate 🥑 for InfluxData, the company behind InfluxDB. As a serial user group organiser, Cloud Native advocate, and lover of esoteric programming languages, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/dominique-top.md

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+Title = "Dominique Top"
+Twitter = "devopsdom"
+image = ""
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "dominique-top"
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+As Co-Founder of Meetup Mates, DevOps Community Advocate and London’s Docker Community Leader (of the year!) Dominique has been a passionate part of the DevOps Community for the past few years and has attended many meetups and events. She runs the Docker London Meetup, Co-runs the Cloud Native London Meetup, on the committee for DevOpsDays London this year and is involved with a few of the other larger Meetup groups in London. When she’s not at tech events, Dominique geeks out over music - She’s a Techno DJ and a singer and very much a performer at heart.
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content/events/2019-london/speakers/edward-thomson.md

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+Title = "Edward Thomson"
+Twitter = "ethomson"
+image = "edward-thomson.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "edward-thomson"
+
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+Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Azure DevOps, where he focuses on Git
+and CI/CD pipelines. Edward is a writer and frequent speaker about DevOps,
+developer tools, and version control, and how teams can be successful with
+faster software delivery. Previously, he was a software engineer, building
+version control tools at Microsoft and GitHub.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/emanuil-tolev.md

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+Title = "Emanuil Tolev"
+Twitter = "emanuil_tolev"
+image = "emanuil-tolev.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "emanuil-tolev"
+
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+Emanuil is a Community Engineer with Elastic, the company behind the open source Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, APM, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). He's based in London. He used to be a freelance web developer + ops lead and ran a small open science web dev consultancy with partners for several years. Interested in mentorship, inclusion, small businesses, archery and always curious about how the world works in detail.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/helen-joy.md

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+Title = "Helen Joy"
+Twitter = "littlehelli"
+image = "helen-joy.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "helen-joy"
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+Helen Joy is a UX consultant and user researcher at SPARCK, working predominantly within Government organisations. Her focus is on universal and inclusive design practices. She’s an organiser of Women in Tech Nottingham, working to promote inclusivity within the tech industry and raise the profile of talented female and gender minority speakers. When not consulting or speaking at events, Helen is an avid coffee drinker and hot yoga fan.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/jon-vines.md

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+Title = "Jon Vines"
+Twitter = "_jonvines"
+image = "jon-vines.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "jon-vines"
+
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+Jon is a software engineer and team lead at AO.com. Jon has been building, deploying and operating systems for over ten years and is interested in serverless, event-driven architectures and the application of DevOps principles and practices. Jon loves reading, bring recommendations.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/margo-gantner.md

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+Title = "Margo Gantner"
+Twitter = "margo_gantner"
+image = "margo-gantner.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "margo-gantner"
+
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+From learning to code in python to an all-mountain pro, Margo is passionate
+about everything that involves tech, digital and mountains. Being an active
+participant in London’s Tech Community over a past year, Margo co-founded
+Meetup Mates community to help everyone participate in meetups together.
+

content/events/2019-london/speakers/nayana-shetty.md

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+Title = "Nayana Shetty"
+Twitter = "shettyny"
+image = "nayana-shetty.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "nayana-shetty"
+
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+Nayana Shetty is a Tech Lead at the Financial Times for the Infrastructure Delivery team. Her team provides two major capabilities within FT Technology. They are, hardening Linux operating systems which includes both Amazon Linux and Redhat and providing monitoring as a service to other teams in the FT which includes building and maintaining of monitoring tools like Graphite, Grafana and a few others. Starting her career as a Quality Engineer she is passionate about building quality into products from the start rather than an afterthought.

content/events/2019-london/speakers/nicky-wrightson.md

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-TBD
+Nicky is a principal engineer working at  Skyscanner and formerly of the Financial Times and has been leading teams for more than 15 years, across a wide range of industries: travel, banking, media and telecommunications. She passionately drives forward cloud native architectures and approaches that allow engineers to deliver deliver business value quickly whilst also reducing the support overhead needed for complex distributed systems.
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content/events/2019-london/speakers/nik-knight.md

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+Title = "Nik Knight"
+Twitter = "kninki"
+image = "nik-knight.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "nik-knight"
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+Nik Knight is not entirely sure how, as an English Lit and Philosophy graduate, she ended up in tech. However, having served time on first-line support, led multi-discipline Delivery Teams, and spent most of the past 20 years wrangling software releases into Production, she's here to stay.
+
+A firm believer that technology is all about solving "people" problems, she has a keen enthusiasm for DevOps culture and mindset. She also holds an EMCC Foundation Award in Coaching, and likes nothing more than bringing these two strands together to help teams achieve more than they think is possible.
+
+Outside of work, she unwinds by applying the 'fail fast' principle to yoga, child-rearing and occasionally, karaoke.

content/events/2019-london/welcome.md

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           <a class="btn btn-secondary btn-block" href="/events/2019-london/sponsor"> <i class="fa fa-money fa-lg"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sponsor the Conference</a>
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-          <a class="btn btn-secondary btn-block" href="/events/2019-london/propose" rel="noopener"> <i class="fa fa-microphone fa-lg"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Speak</a>
+          <a class="btn btn-secondary btn-block" href="/events/2019-london/program" rel="noopener"> <i class="fa fa-file-o fa-lg"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Program</a>
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content/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome.md

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-Ticket sales have ended, but you can watch our <a href="https://youtu.be/x6SheZjzmsU">livestream</a>! 
+Ticket sales have ended, but you can watch our <a href="https://youtu.be/TxSX_uXDSR8">livestream</a>! 
 
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content/events/2019-philadelphia/program/zero-to-hero.md

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 Talk_date = ""
 Talk_start_time = ""
 Talk_end_time = ""
-Title = "Zero to Hero"
+Title = "Zero to Hero: Start Test automation with Cypress"
 Type = "talk"
 Speakers = ["karoline-leite", "daniela-vieira"]
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-(Coming Soon)
+In DevOps world, test automation is a must have. But start coding could be challenging for people novice in tech and also for the ones working in manual testing (because someone said that testers don't need technical skills)! In this "right to the point" workshop you'll start your automation test project - easy and painlessly. It'll give you knowledge to continue learning and practicing after.