Join us for a very special webinar with the author of SolidJS, Ryan Carniato. 

Ryan is a JavaScript performance enthusiast, fine-grained reactivity superfan and is a senior member of the team at eBay working on the Marko framework.

In this 1 hour special, we will discuss:

• Introducing the SolidJS framework

• Looking at its origins and development

• Exploring how its unique approach changes the way people think about developing web apps

Just about as much as we can cover in 60 minutes!

You will get the chance to ask Ryan questions about SolidJS LIVE! So don’t miss out and join us on the 7th April.

Host presents our first Cloud event of 2022

Google Cloud Data Demystified

Learn how to design a data ecosystem in 1 hour

This virtual talk will be diving into how a GCP data ecosystem can be designed and built. We'll be covering:

The tooling around it and some of the tools/services you can use.

Best practices, challenges and cost implications.

What kind of skillsets would be the best fit for each area and how to make sure it's scalable!

Sign up now

The Panel:

Richard Shenghua He

Independent GCP Data consultant with 4+ years’ experience designing and building GCP-based data platforms for the likes of Just Eat, Pearson and leading GCP Data & Analytics partner – Datatonic.

What to expect:

1. Free sign-up and access.

2. Presentation and live whiteboard session with Richard to cover the in's and out's of designing a data ecosystem.

3. Live audience Q&A with Richard.
   

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Welcome to Battle of The Frameworks 2022, our flagship front-end tech event.

The finance industry has long seen technology supporting innovation and banking evolutions.

For our 2022 edition of this annual event, we’ll be focusing on Front-End in FinTech.

FinTech is a term used for anything comprised of finance and technology, from money transferring platforms to budgeting apps. It is one of the fastest-growing and most in-demand technologies across the globe.

This is old school vs new school - We’re going to look at companies spanning the entire FS landscape, from start ups to huge tier 1 investment banks, offering an inside look at both traditional models and ways to effectively go against the status quo.

Historically, BOTF has seen React.js, Angular and Vue.js go head to head for top spot... This year, we’re shaking things up with a focus on leading winners, Angular and React.js, with one experienced tech leader representing each corner.

We are super excited to announce the speaker profiles soon...

Event plan and talk track:

> Presentations
> Panel Discussion
> Audience Q&A
> Final vote

Sign up now and save your spot for our favourite virtual get together.

See you there!

Join us for this panel discussion about the challenges of implementing SRE. Our expert panel will be looking at:

• The challenges of getting business buy-in to SRE

• Understanding how your business can adopt SRE disciplines which are viable for your business

• What concepts of SRE to introduce

• and more..!

Introducing our panel:

Vítek Urbanec - Engineering Manager @ Zapier

George Gkirtsou - Senior Platform Engineering Manager

Spyridon Maniotis - Head of DevOps @ Capco

Chris Denton - Cloud DevOps & SRE Tech Lead @ esure

Our partners:

We're hosting this event in collaboration with our community partners, The London SRE Group: An open group to collaborate on projects, share ideas, experience and opinions on implementing SRE. This group was set up with the intention for those interested in understanding more about the world of SRE.

Welcome to JVM Wars 2021! ⚡

We're proud to present our annual panel event. 

Harnessing the power of Data Streaming within the JVM - which language do our expert panel prefer? 

Learn the benefits of developing data streaming solutions with Java, Scala, Kotlin and Clojure as our 4 distinguished technologists discuss their favourite language and why.

Java | Scala | Kotlin | Clojure

It’s the ultimate showdown. 

We're going to battle it out and YOU can get involved.

We're going to look at each of the JVM languages. From their levels of productivity through to their best suited functions.

This event is free and online, everyone is welcome to join us!

⚡ Agenda:

6pm: Lightning talks representing Java, Scala, Kotlin & Clojure
6:30pm: Panel discussion, Q&A and Audience Voting

⚡ Fighting each corner we have a fantastic panel of speakers:

Scala: Jack Widman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackwidman/) 
Kotlin: Michele Sollecito (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelesollecito/)
Java: Ana-Maria Mihalceanu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-maria-mihalceanu-1508/)
Clojure: Igor Ges (https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoriges/)

Sign up and watch the event below 🤩

Orbis Connects presents Code & Create

In this workshop, our event host Joe Davies will be joined by Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen - Tech Writer, Tech Speaker, FOSS Maintainer, Microsoft MVP.

We will discuss how to build a basic WebAssembley application live using Blazor. We will also be discussing the trade-offs that Blazor brings for both its runtime modes.

Will it ever replace JavaScript when it comes to building interactive web UIs?

Join us live, get involved in the conversation and find out.

Sign up now below to save your spot!

Live Stream:

Welcome to Code & Create!

For this exciting episode, we’ll be taking part in The Global Tech Fest.

We’re going to look at some key React features. You’ll learn to code as our guest Borja Leiva takes us through a visual journey of the basics of React.

This workshop is suitable for all. We'll start with the basics and then gradually increase the difficulty of the challenge in front of us.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn more about real-life scenarios with using React.

• The fundamentals of building web applications.

• How to take advantage of 3rd party API's.

Orbis Connect presents our next connecting women in tech event, Challenging Implicit Bias.

Alex Ludwick will be hosting discussions around unconscious bias, supporting women in the workplace and effective allyship.

This is a topic that is relevant to everyone in the tech industry, whether they perpetuate the problem unknowingly or suffer from it. Everyone is welcome to join us.

- May we introduce our super awesome panel -

Annjana Ramesh - Engineering Manager at Twitter

Karina Celis – Senior Manager at Expedia

Claire Knight – Head of Engineering at Beacon

Alice Cheung – Engineering Manager at Ravelin Technology

Orbis Connect presents 1-hour of lightning panel talks to discuss the rise of GCP in data. 

Topics for our quick fire rounds: 

• Data Services on Google

• Data Architecture

• Available technologies

• The data offering in public Cloud

• Which industries are benefiting the most

• Data storage solutions

and finally... Can the other cloud providers catch up with google?

Introducing our expert panel

Anna-Maria Wykes - Senior Data Engineering Consultant @ Advancing Analytics

 Anna is a veteran software & data engineer, with over 15 years of experience. She’s tackled projects from real-time analytics with Scala & Kafka, building out Data Lakes with spark and applying engineering to Data Science. Anna is a senior consultant with Advancing Analytics, helping shape & evolve their data engineering practice. She has a real passion for data and strives to bring the worlds of Software Development and Data Science closer together. Other areas of interest include UX, Agile methodologies, and helping to organize/run local Code Clubs

- Connect with Anna - 

Twitter: @annawykes

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anna-maria-wykes-31939454

Mike Fowler - Chief Technology Officer @ Synalogik Innovative Solutions

Mike Fowler is Chief Technology Officer at Synalogik with over 16 years of experience building secure & reliable data-intensive distributed systems. He is a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) with 15 public cloud certifications including Google's Professional Cloud Architect & Data Engineer.

- Connect with Mike - 

Twitter: @mlfowler_

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlfowler/

Slide Share: https://www.slideshare.net/MikeFowler28

GitHub: https://github.com/gh-mlfowler

Web: www.mlfowler.com

Matt Penton - Head of Data & Analytics @ Appsbroker

Matt Penton is the Head of Data & Analytics at Appsbroker the largest Google Managed Service Partner in the UK.  He has over 20 years of experience in building analytics solutions and helping well known global organisations making the most out of their big data.

- Connect with Matt - 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattpenton

🗓  Join our expert panel on Thursday 15th April 2021 

 ⏱  8am EDT | 12pm BST | 1pm CEST

We all took part in the choose to challenge campaign, but do you choose to lead?

The team at Orbis have dedicated March to celebrating the international women of tech. For this exciting panel talk, we'll be sitting with some of the best USA Technology leaders across Engineering.

We're going to talk about - Progression for women in tech - How we can proactively make changes to achieve diverse leadership teams - The journey to leadership, the importance of mentorship and all the challenges women face in the workplace along the way.

This event will be hosted in USA. Join us at 6pm EDT live on Crowdcast.

#choosetochallenge #choosetolead

- Meet your panel of speakers -

Viji Natarajan - Software Engineering Director at Finra, Director at Women Who Code

A curious technologist who likes to learn, adopt new technologies as much as modernizing existing platforms. With a "people first" mindset, passionate about coaching and mentoring female engineers.

Iris Otano - Vice President in Global Technology & Operations at Bank of America

Iris' work as a Transformation Lead allows her to simplify and automate the processes and the tools currently used at the bank. Her strengths include learning new things to proposed strategic solutions and build the right relationships to get things done. She is passionate about helping women increase their confidence to combat the imposter syndrome she often sees. In her free time, she loves to travel, learn new things. She is currently residing and fixing a cabin in the Poconos PA with her fiancé until it's safer to return to Brooklyn NY.

Sarah Griffis - Director of Engineering at GoodRX

Sarah is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of building high output teams in organizations big and small across product, engineering and operations. She strives for diverse and inclusive teams. She is currently Director of Engineering at GoodRx which is a newly IPO-ed very large healthcare marketplace known for its prescription discounts available freely for the un and underinsured.

What can we do to help people with leadership qualities achieve their full potential?

We're going to sit down with an awesome panel of Engineering leaders to deep dive into the challenges and opportunities for women in tech. Navigating being a sole woman in an all-male tech team, battling imposter syndrome and how women can seek progression.

- Meet the panel -

Nina Buffi - CTO & Managing Director at OSPIN

Nina Buffi was born in Locarno, Switzerland, in 1985. She studied Microengineering at the Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and did her Master's thesis at the University of British Columbia. In 2013 she received a PhD from EPFL, with a thesis about a biosensor for the detection of arsenic in water. After a few years spent writing a novel (not published yet), she joined OSPIN, a Berlin-based company aiming to establish an open bioprocessing platform as the „operating system“ of modern biotechnology. Since January 2018 she is the OSPIN's CTO and since August 2019 OSPIN's Managing Director.

Maryam Bahrami - Engineering Manager/Tech Lead at samedi GmbH

Maryam is a Software Engineer from Iran, she left Iran almost 10 years ago to pursue her career in Malaysia which she spent 3 sunny years there. 6 years ago Maryam moved to Berlin, Germany with her husband and two cats. She describes herself as a programmer by day and a dreamer by night, however these days she has less time for coding. Currently she is an Engineering Manager and Tech Lead at samedi, working with the latest technologies and challenging herself on a daily basis. Maryam loves to work on projects that have a positive impact on people's lives. At samedi their goal is to improve the digital health world for doctors and patients which is a hot topic due to the current situation.

Irina Tsyganok - Director of Engineering at Vogue

Irina is a senior technology professional, helping define the engineering strategy for global brands as well as recruiting and leading distributed and diverse software engineering teams. She's passionate about solving complex engineering problems, and above all - about helping individuals reach their full potential.

Ayelen Chavez - Engineering Manager at OLX Group

Ayelen is an Engineering Manager based in Berlin, currently on full-time maternity leave, but coming back to work soon. She was and will be leading a full-stack team within the OLX Group’s Tech Hub. OLX Group is a global product and tech company of 20+ brands and 5,000 people, helping to fuel local economies by making it easy for anyone to buy or sell through their platforms.

Ayelen holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and has 15 years of experience developing solutions for different platforms. She moved to Germany 5 years ago and spends her free time with her family and friends, playing music, reading, working out, or in between her other hundred plus hobbies.

How can we proactively make a change to achieve equality and inclusion in tech? In tribute of International Women's Day, Orbis Connect are dedicating March to celebrating the womxn of Tech and Design.

For this imperative panel talk, we have invited a panel of community leaders to speak to us about the retention of womxn in tech and how businesses can create inclusive environments. We'll also be looking at why womxn are leaving the industry and the challenges womxn currently face within the workplace.

- Introducing your panel -

Joanna Jewitt - People Director @ Orbis

Jo manages the operations, talent acquisition and wellbeing at Orbis. With over 14 years of experience in the recruitment industry, Jo's passionate about supporting every member of the team reach their personal goals. Jo also leads our D&I strategy, drives internal awareness and education.

Belen Ripoll - Global Partnerships Business Manager @ Cloudreach & Founder of Wagora

Belen has over 14 years' experience working in fast-paced and growing technology and sports companies, where she has held roles within the operations, business management & recruitment areas.

Currently, Belen works at Cloudreach as their Global Partnerships Business Manager, having previously led their Talent Acquisition team globally, scaling both their technical and non-technical teams.

Belen is also the Founder of Wagora, a community to empower, connect and advance women working in or aspiring to work in the tech industry.

Anna Del Prete - Senior Software Engineer @ Zego & Co-Organizer of Ladies of Code: London

Anna Del Prete is a Senior Software Engineer with more than 9 years of experience, she started her career as backend engineer but she wore many hats as tester, lead, researcher and now a mobile engineer.

When she is not busy working she loves learning about machine learning, reading and running and, if you ask her son, sleeping and drinking coffee!

Sarah Coates - HR Manager @ iSoftBet

With over 10 years experience within Human Resources Generalist roles and experience of coaching senior C level management on employee relations, operational issues and strategy.

Welcome to our first IWD event in tribute of International Women's Day and women in tech!

In this very special UX edition, we have a panel of design industry leaders to talk about career progression for Designers.

Topics of discussion will include:
- Imposter syndrome
- Portfolio’s
- Where to find opportunities and finding companies who invest in their talent
- How to land that dream job in UX Design

Orbis Connect are hosting this event in partnership with our friends at General Assembly.

Everyone is welcome, attendance is free but we do ask that you register in advance.

Meet your panel:

Denise Chippindale
Marketeer by Day, Curator by Night! @ General Assembly & Anxious as Anything

Chip is the new kid to London. As a trained visual designer now in marketing she has wide experience in both the tech, design and marketing industry. Spending 3 years in design, she decided to make the switch to marketing and partnerships. Chip heads up the marketing team at General Assembly and has loads of insights in transitioning into a different career.

Amongst her 'normal role' she has hosted The Design Kids for a whopping 3 years has allowed her to meet some incredible creatives, students and work alongside Sydney's best agencies. She has now created a friendly hub of mental health resources called Anxious as Anything. Check it out!

Rodica Marvan-Harrison
Lead UX/UI Designer @ Onyx Capital Advisory

Rodica is a Lead UX/UI Designer at Onyx Capital Advisory, a cutting-edge trading and brokerage firm with the mission of digitising and democratising the oil swaps market. Rodica has extensive experience designing for Financial Services and takes a particular interest in products with complex data. Rodica has previously worked for a global investment bank and clients such as Aviva Investors.

Outside of her role, Rodica is a mentor for ADPList where she provides guidance to fellow designers as they navigate their careers.

Ashley Janelle
UX Coach, User Interface (UI) Designer @ Caterpillar Inc

As a seasoned User Experience and User Interface Designer, Ashley Janelle focuses on designing customer cantered experiences that target her users everyday challenges. At Caterpillar Inc., Ashley taps into user needs while designing solutions that allow them to save time, money, and increase their productivity.

As a UX coach and course creator, she’s developed an online course, “Learn UX Online in 16 Weeks” to help aspiring UX designers go from beginner to experienced UX Designers to land jobs at top companies. Using her UX expertise and passion for working with people, Ashley’s not only helped others land their dream roles but build the confidence to become successful UX Designers.

Ana Bernardo
Senior UX Designer @ Red Badger

Ana is a human-centred designer, with a passion for design education and design thinking. She has worked in small start-ups as a UX design team of one, as well as in big corporations part of a big design team. Some of the brands she has worked for are Barclays, BT, Kurt Geiger and Nando’s. Currently she is a design consultant, experimenting with Just in Time UX Design and understanding how you can add research and data driven decisions to fast paced digital product development projects. She is passionate about design education and the power of design - design is not only for designers!

Join us for this panel discussion about SRE: Designing For Failure

Introducing our panel:

Richard Jones - Engineering Lead - Deloitte. Richard has been involved in IT for 20+ years. He was a Unix system admin in Australia's largest ISP when the Internet first became a thing. In 1999 he founded a startup specialising in BMC Software monitoring technologies. He's been leading the thinking about availability, end-user experience, metrics and reporting for 20 years, he developed an SLA reporting application which was used in many Fortune 500 companies and which he sold to BMC Software in 2005. Richard currently consults across multiple teams and projects in Deloitte and leads in ensuring applications are instrumented with metrics and alerting to ensure business objectives are tracked and met. Richard will be speaking about SRE on a large scale asynchronous workflow orchestration platform.

Ioannis Georgoulas - SRE Team Lead - Paddle.com. Ioannis is currently working as SRE Team Lead at Paddle.com, he is Gopher and "SLO all the things" advocate with main focus on bringing reliability mindset to an organization. Ioannis will be speaking about incident management flow components that can fail during a lifecycle of an incident and how we can be prepared.

Lee Gardiner - DevOps Lead at Collinson. Experienced straight-talking DevOps and Infrastructure Lead with a love for all things tech. Lee will be speaking about the theme of the immutable dream. Delving into how he transformed their legacy server estate in 2 UK datacentres to handle sizeable global traffic and bringing the infrastructure ahead 20 years.

We're hosting this event in collaboration with our community partners, The London SRE Group. An open group to collaborate on projects, share ideas, experience and opinions on implementing SRE. This group was set up with the intention of those interested in understanding more about the world of SRE.

We're very excited to celebrate a new online coding challenge in collaboration with our partners Kodiri and Pusher. Celebrating the end of lockdown in the UK, Orbis Connect's Joe Davies will be joining our friends at Kodiri to try out their NEW interview quiz and other live coding challenges.

You can join us! No coding experience required, just pop online and enjoy this coding game.

Agenda:

6pm GMT: Welcome & presentation (https://youtu.be/1U_boTlMPL8)

6:10pm GMT: Kick off the challenges on Kodiri (JavaScript and React)

You can access the platform here:
- Web: www.kodiri.com
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kodiri
- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kodiri-all-you-need-is-code/id1497757436?ls=1

6:55pm GMT: Presentation of the results on each category

About Kodiri: Kodiri is a nonprofit, community-driven group for all tech enthusiasts based in London. Kodiri work with some of the largest tech companies globally on connecting like-minded people, with a special focus on underrepresented and underprivileged groups. You can join the Kodiri members community and play free today: http://www.kodiri.com

About Pusher: Pusher is an online community where you’ll find everything from tutorials about our realtime platform to talks from the developer community. Check out their carefully curated playlists and subscribe to their channel to get updated when we release new content.

Orbis Connect presents Code & Create - Facilitating Remote Workshops. Host Joe Davies will be speaking to Christian Jensen, Product Design Team Lead at SimpleSite to discuss the value of remote workshops and offer some practical examples on how to make the most out of them. Within the current global circumstances, learn from these concrete examples. See how the Design team at SimpleSite are adapting to working from home with remote workshops and the do's and don'ts they have picked up along the way. Christian is a Product Designer with a background in Service Design, currently Product Design Team Lead at SimpleSite. He covers the spectrum from the initial strategy, over UX research, through iterative prototyping and testing, to production-ready UI.

This Code & Create event is for all aspiring designers or anyone new to remote workshopping!

Orbis Connect are pleased to announce our second JVM Wars: Java | Scala | Kotlin | Clojure

It’s the ultimate showdown. We're going to battle it out and YOU can get involved. We're going to look at each of the JVM languages. From their levels of productivity through to their best suited functions. Has Java become rusty or does it remain the industry's favourite? We'll discuss recent updates and improvements amongst the JVM, plus an outlook of what our panel of industry leaders think of these.

Welcome to Code & Create by Orbis Connect  

This is a new trending topic explained in a non-opinionated way, an architectural solution that brings many organisational benefits to help mid to large companies to easily scale.

Micro Front-ends explained.

Joined by Marco Sanfilippo Frittola - Engineer, Software Solution Architect, Speaker and JS advocate. 

Welcome to Code & Create.

For this episode, look at the fundamentals to UX Design and creating a killer portfolio to begin your career in UX Design.

If you’re an aspiring UX Designer, there’s probably so much you’re currently thinking about. Things like how to learn UX, what a good portfolio looks like, what a portfolio is and why it’s important can be top of mind.

Let’s start at the beginning to make sure you’re as informed as you need to be on what a UX Designer is and what you need to do to get there. We’ll also be sharing some of the biggest mistakes new UX Designers make when breaking into the field that will save you time and potentially money!

Introducing Ashley Janelle:

As a seasoned User Experience and User Interface Designer, Ashley Janelle focuses on designing customer centered experiences that target her users everyday challenges. At Caterpillar Inc., Ashley taps into user needs while designing solutions that allow them to save time, money, and increase their productivity.

As a UX coach and course creator, she’s developed an online course, “Learn UX Online in 16 Weeks” to help aspiring UX designers go from beginner to experienced UX Designers to land jobs at top companies. Using her UX expertise and passion for working with people, Ashley’s not only helped others land their dream roles, but build the confidence to become successful UX Designers.

Welcome to Code & Create!

For this exciting Code & Create, we’ll be playing with JavaScript data structures. We will analyse how the different JavaScript constructions and types help us dealing with a series of use case scenarios.

You’ll learn to apply the most convenient data structure to efficiently solve real life algorithms.

This workshop is suitable for all. We'll start with the basics and then gradually increase the difficulty of the challenge in front of us.

Orbis Connect is back with another Code & Create. Within this virtual interactive live webinar, we'll be discussing Design Systems and Adobe XD.

Joe talks to Paul about how to improve communications between Designers and Developers, how Adobe XD can outperform other design systems such as Figma, plus the importance of building an effective design system within the current remote working environment.

Featuring Paul Cress at Adobe. Adobe XD is a powerful platform where you can design, prototype and share engaging user experiences. We'll be taking a deep dive into the platform.

What is XD?

Adobe XD is a powerful tool for your whole UI/UX design process. Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, animations, and more — no need to switch between multiple apps or worry about keeping designs in sync.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Within the second instalment of these special Code & Create workshops, we'll be looking at Apache Spark with guest speaker, Neeraj Bhadani - Data Scientist at Expedia Group.

Neeraj has more than a decade of experience building software, currently working in AI & Data Science team at Expedia Group. Prior to Expedia Group, he worked on various Big Data projects, dealt directly with clients as a Technical specialist, and migrated various ETL pipelines to Apache Spark. He also received a Gold Medal for securing first place in his batch during his undergraduate days.

During this workshop, we discuss the fundamentals of Apache Spark and how we can use spark DataFrames for Data Analysis.

Apache Spark is a General-purpose computing engine that has in-memory computing capabilities. It can be used for a variety of workloads like Batch processing, Iterative problems, stream processing, etc. It is designed to be highly scalable and provides various APIs like Scala, Python, R, Java, and SQL. It can be easily integrated with other BIG Data tools as well.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Within this workshop, we'll be looking at Apache Spark with guest speaker, Neeraj Bhadani - Data Scientist at Expedia Group.

Neeraj has more than a decade of experience building software, currently working in AI & Data Science team at Expedia Group. Prior to Expedia Group, he worked on various Big Data projects, dealt directly with clients as a Technical specialist, and migrated various ETL pipelines to Apache Spark. He also received a Gold Medal for securing first place in his batch during his undergraduate days.

Apache Spark is a General-purpose computing engine that has in-memory computing capabilities. It can be used for a variety of workloads like Batch processing, Iterative problems, stream processing, etc. It is designed to be highly scalable and provides various APIs like Scala, Python, R, Java, and SQL. It can be easily integrated with other BIG Data tools as well.

In this workshop, we cover the following topics:

• Introduction

• Architecture

• RDD: Resilient Distributed Dataset

• Demo

• Q & A

Welcome to Code & Create!

An introduction to building an open banking app using bank transaction data, through TrueLayer API.

TrueLayer is an open banking API that lets you build applications that securely access data and initiate payments in real-time. Guilherme is going to show us how we do this. 

Ft. Guilherme Maule - Principal Engineer at Chip 

Guilherme has a proven track record within the financial industry, B2B, outsourced services, technology & consultancy. Experienced at delivering business-aligned technical architecture, complex high volume and high availability systems and solutions through the innovative use of emerging technologies across software internationally.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Orbis Connect presents Season 2 of Code & Create, a series of webinars and learning sessions by experts in the industry.

In this episode, we discuss Kotlin. Delving into the advantages, features and pros vs cons of migrating to Kotlin.

Featuring guest speaker, Ben Kadel, Senior Software Engineer at The Very Group. Ben has several years of experience as a software developer in many different roles, both in the UK and Germany. He loves programming and spends a lot of his free time learning as much as he possibly can, so we thought it would be great for him to share some of his wisdom with our community. Recently he's been focusing on Android Development and helping to maintain and implement features to the My Very Android App.

You can connect with Ben over on Twitter - @Ben_Kadel
or Linkedin - linkedin.com/benkadel
Or check out his YouTube (it's pretty funny) - YouTube.com/BenKadel

Welcome to Code & Create!

For this episode, we have Pradeep Bhadani - GCP Google Expert - talking to us about GCP: Understanding Cloud IAM Roles and Service accounts. Access GCP services securely using service accounts and Cloud IAM Roles.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Shapeless in the real world: an introduction to generic programming

Shapeless is a powerful Scala library used behind many others, such as Circe or Doobie. This talk will show you how shapeless works, using it to solve a real problem.

Presented by Juliano Alves - Senior Software Engineer at TransferWise. Juliano is an open-source enthusiast, a firm believer that the future belongs to polyglot and functional programming. Hailing from Brazil, Juliano has been sharing his passion for technology here in London since 2016, previously working for Capital One and uSwitch.com prior to TransferWise. A practitioner of Agile methodologies delivering high-quality composable and testable code.

Welcome to Code & Create

We will have a look at how we can create lightweight React component libraries without over-engineering them. We'll also consider how we can use them in conjunction with a CMS to create new React Pages on the fly. By the end of this presentation, we will be able to build and scale a reusable react component library without too much effort.

Presented by George Georgiadis, Technical Lead at John Lewis.

Welcome to Code & Create!

Episode 1 of Code & Create focuses on Blameless Post Mortem's. Our guest speaker Jai shares a sample P1 scenario and runs through an example Blameless Post Mortem, a retrospective analysis of a technical failure.

Determining what can be done to prevent future failures, creating best practices, process improvements and mitigating future risks.

This session is presented by Jai Campbell, GCP DevOps Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group and Community Lead for SRE Site Reliability Engineering London Meetup Group. Expert in Site Reliability Engineering, GCP, DevSecOps, and Cloud-Native technologies.