This month we’re going back to the early days of the web and getting all set up for a good night’s sleep ! Plus we've got free food and drinks provided at the event thanks to our sponsors.
Everyone is welcome and there are no tickets required. Just turn up - it's free!
Walk There Together
We know it can be intimidating walking into a tech event, so a member of the Tech Nottingham team will be meeting any nervous or first-time attendees outside the Theatre Royal at 18:00 before the event so you can all head down there together.
Read more about what to expect at Tech Notts here.
How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days
by Jeremy Keith and Remy Sharp
The World Wide Web turned 30 years old this year. To mark the occasion, a motley group of web nerds gathered at CERN, the birthplace of the web, to build a time machine. The first ever web browser was, confusingly, called WorldWideWeb. What if we could recreate the experience of using it ...but within a modern browser! Join (Je)Remy on a journey through time and space and code as they excavate the foundations of Tim Berners-Lee's gloriously ambitious and hacky hypertext system that went on to conquer the world.
Jeremy Keith
About Jeremy
Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft. You may know him from such books as DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, HTML5 For Web Designers, Resilient Web Design, and most recently, Going Offline.
Remy Sharp
About Remy
Remy is the founder and curator of ffconf, the UK based JavaScript conference. He also ran ‘jQuery for Designers’ website, co-authored Introducing HTML5 and runs a video course on the command line.
An Engineer's Guide to a Good Night's Sleep
As organisations look to empower engineers more, and embrace devops practices, we have seen the support role change quite a bit too. Developers are moving from being purely third line support, to working more collaboratively with engineers and operational staff. Also as we move to cloud native microservice solutions, the increased complexity and diversity of our production landscape means operational staff may well rely more heavily on the engineers, in particular out of hours.
I have spent the last 18 years working across a plethora of industries utilising a myriad of technology and approaches. From working on everything from trading applications to content enrichment APIs, I have seen a lot of approaches and processes try to help minimise operational support for developers.
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 call! You will gain some practical insight into how to handle failure in today's more complex distributed microservice systems. This will include looking at approaches to resiliency, understanding your system, understanding the requirements for fault tolerance, and the developers’ mindset necessary for this. I will be peppering this talk with real world examples, and an occasional war story along the way too.
Nicky Wrightson
About Nicky
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.
Win Stuff at Tech Nottingham!
We have some great prizes to give away at this month’s event, you know the drill: attend and tweet on the #TechNott hashtag to be in with a chance to win!
Book One: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Book Two: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
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