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DESCRIPTION: Welcome to the meetup for those who are currently (or soon to 
 be) leading and managing technical teams! \n\n ⏰ Schedule \n\n \n 6:00pm
  - Arrival\, refreshments\, networking \n 6:45pm - Welcome \n 6:50pm - Tal
 k: Maria Ntalla \n 7:20pm - Talk: Blanca Garcia Gil \n 7:40pm - Break \n 7
 :50pm - Talk: Nicky Wrightson \n 8:20pm - Networking \n 9:00pm - Close \n 
 \n\n 🌟 Speakers \n\n Host: Maria Gutierrez (Head of Engineering\, Inter
 com London) \n\n Speaker: Maria Ntalla (Engineering Manager\, Pivotal) \n\
 n Talk: Productise your project's technical quality \n\n We have successfu
 lly applied product principles to developing\, well\, products\; listening
  to users\, delivering the highest value features first\, measuring succes
 s. What if the same principles apply to the “non-user facing” aspects 
 of the software your team writes\; architecture\, codebase health and tech
 nical debt? In other words\, what if your product’s technical quality...
 is a product? \n\n In this talk\, I’ll go through a framework that you c
 an use as a reference when deciding what aspects of tech debt to address\,
  in what order\, and in what way. You can adjust that to match your team
 ’s special context and challenges\, but I’ll also take you through som
 e implementations that I’ve seen in engineering teams as examples. By th
 e end of the session\, you’ll have tools that will help you choose the m
 ost effective way towards engineering setup and decision making that works
  for your team\, but also grow your team’s muscles towards identifying t
 hese areas in the future. \n\n Speaker: Blanca Garcia Gil    (Principal Sy
 stems Engineer\, BBC) \n\n Talk: Getting excited about maintaining legacy 
 systems  \n\n In any big organisation\, there are a number of applications
  that have been running in production for many years but still need mainta
 ining. Sometimes those systems are in limp home mode and we can only make 
 small changes to help them across the finish line. This is not a very appe
 aling scenario to an engineer with a can-fix attitude\, but there are stil
 l many benefits to getting involved in troubleshooting live issues. \n\n I
  used to think that greenfield projects and new features are the most impo
 rtant areas that would give me opportunities for learning\, but I have rea
 lised looking back at my experience that digging into code that I had not 
 written or from a project I was not part of has given me many benefits: co
 nfidence in stepping into the unknown\, a better understanding of systems 
 that seemed to be a black box and also the ability to predict possible pit
 falls when implementing new systems and prevent failures! \n\n In this tal
 k\, I would like to share the steps I went through when I could no longer 
 avoid diving into the unknown\, some anecdotes of things I’ve learnt and
  how I have been trying to get my team excited about sharing the brunt of 
 helping production systems continue running. \n\n Speaker: Nicky Wrightson
  (Principal Engineer\, Skyscanner) \n\n Talk: An Engineer's Guide to a Goo
 d Night's Sleep \n\n As organisations look to empower engineers more\, and
  embrace DevOps practices\, we have seen the support role change quite a b
 it too. Developers are moving from being purely third line support\, to wo
 rking more collaboratively with engineers and operational staff. Also as w
 e move to cloud native microservice solutions\, the increased complexity a
 nd diversity of our production landscape means operational staff may well 
 rely more heavily on the engineers\, in particular out of hours. \n\n I ha
 ve spent the last 18 years working across a plethora of industries utilisi
 ng a myriad of technology and approaches. From working on everything from 
 trading applications to content enrichment APIs\, I have seen a lot of app
 roaches and processes try to help minimise operational support for develop
 ers. \n\n In this talk\, I will be exploring and discussing some of my top
  approaches and techniques to help reduce the risk of that dreaded 3am cal
 l! You will gain some practical insight into how to handle failure in toda
 y's more complex distributed microservice systems. This will include looki
 ng at approaches to resiliency\, understanding your system\, understanding
  the requirements for fault tolerance\, and the developers' mindset necess
 ary for this. I will be peppering this talk with real world examples\, and
  an occasional war story along the way too. \n\n \n\n The Lead Developer i
 s an international series of conferences and meetups for technical leaders
  in London\, Berlin\, Austin\,  New York and San Francisco. Find out more 
 and check out 100+ talk videos on imposter syndrome\, leading and scaling 
 technical teams\, and lots more at TheLeadDev.com. \n
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T104935
LOCATION:Skyscanner\, London
ORGANIZER:mailto:hello@whiteoctoberevents.co.uk
SUMMARY:Lead Dev Meetup - London - October 2019
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/the-lead-developer-meetup/london-october-2019
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/the-lead-developer-meetup/london-october-2019
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