set the channel description: We would love to meet people face to face in the Platform Engineering Community in London & UK

Anyone from the North East on here?

big thanks to @Karolina Rachwal and crew for the roundtable this week! 🎉 it was lovely.

Hi everyone, We're hosting a platform engineering event at Codurance's offices on the 19th of April and have three speakers confirmed talking about different topics. Here's the info if you'd like to attend - https://www.meetup.com/host-community/events/292088036/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=announceModal_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

Given the move from #london 👉 #uk, worth seeing if there are any Glasweigen’s kicking around: https://www.meetup.com/cloudnativeglasgow/events/292064040/

This one is going to be awesome!

has renamed the channel from "uk" to "loc-uk"

Happy almost 4 day weekend! 🎉 🐇 :nest_with_eggs: Two things on my radar for next week around London: • For the morning 🐦, we have in person CoffeeOps: https://www.meetup.com/coffeeops-london/events/plbrbtyfcgbrb/ • And for the night 🦉, I think I may head to Kubeaster: https://www.meetup.com/Kubernetes-London/events/292149562

Hey look! There is an in person event associated with SLOConf this year 🎉 🙌 https://www.sloconf.com/register-for-london-event I am “hosting” but really all that means is I am in charge for the food and drink. The event will include a “fishbowl” style discussion which I hope will be a lot more engaging and fun than the typical just listen to speakers style of meetup 🤞 Shout if you have any other ideas or questions about the event and hope to see you there!

I'm looking for some advice, I'm looking to move into platform engineering/DevOps, I'm currently a systems engineer (coming up to a year's experience with a previous year in networking and another 2 years before that on help desk) I have a home lab where I have hashicorp nomad set up and I use saltstack for configuration management both at work and at home, I've deployed a couple of test applications to k8s and to a very basic level used cross plane to deploy a k8s cluster I'm wondering if I'm right in looking at junior roles or should I aim a little higher so to speak Any help would be much appreciated and if someone wants to look at my CV that would be very much appreciated

OMG didn’t realize this channel exists but holla from London and remotely from Kubecon! #WTFisSRE 🔥 is in London, May 4-5, and I’m a host and it is legit my fav event, this year with kickass tracks: Observability, Reliability, DevSecOps and DevEx 🎯 https://www.cloud-native-sre.wtf/ And always there be dragons 🐉

Ola from Bristol 😄

Greetings form Milton Keynes

hey @Dominik Zyla I am in Milton keynes also

Greetings from Weston-super-Mare

Hey folks! For those who love a bit of Kubernetes / cloud native stuff, we have opened the Call for Proposals for Kubernetes Community Days UK 🎉 The event itself is happening in CodeNode in London on 17th & 18th October. CFP is open now until 2nd July so get thinking about what to talk about: https://kcd.smapply.io/prog/kcd_uk_2023/

Hola from Poole, Dorset 👋

Greetings from Bideford, North Devon

Hello Team I am actively seeking cloud and DevOps job opportunities. If you have any leads or knows of any positions that may be a good fit for me, please don't hesitate to reach out. Additionally, I am in a tough financial situation at the moment and any kind of help or support would be greatly appreciated. I am an immediate joiner and eager to start working as soon as possible. Linkedin_profile: Krishnaraj R LinkedIn Github_Profile: https://github.com/krishnarajj/Terraform-project https://github.com/krishnarajj/containerproject https://github.com/krishnarajj/kubevproject

Hey hey here, 🙂 colossal announcement! Many people were longing for a physical location for this year's PlatformCon, so we decided, since the 🇬🇧 community is so lively and active, that together with our beloved sponsors from Syntasso and OpenCredo we were going to hold a watch party! 👉🏻 Register to participate and connect with fellow platform practitioners, learn from the best in the industry, and engage directly with the event speakers in London. https://lu.ma/london-watch-party

A bit of a long shot, but do we know someone (in the group or outside) who went to University Arts London for their studies? Someone I know has an admit from UAL on their newly floated Msc in Computer Science program. They are a career switcher and want to sharpen the rough edges by a formal degree. Wondering if anyone who went to UAL can tell about their experience. They are looking at the program to 1. give a sound background on CS topics. 2. Help in getting good career opportunities while based in London/UK. A brief background - They have worked in Mozilla, Postman as part of Google Summer of Code etc. So they are pretty good at programming in general but not so great in the foundations of computer science. (Self-taught hence...)

It's been a while since we had the roundtable. Any plans to organise another one, or are people busy with the upcoming PlatformCon?

Speaking of events / discussions…the monthly lunch time remote #CoffeeOps is on this week! We have people dial in from the Portsmouth, Sheffield, Scotland and a few from around Europe if you want to join! https://www.meetup.com/coffeeops-london/

Hi 👋 everyone, if anyone is interested in gathering to talk distributed systems / backend testing, and Autonomous Testing, please join us at our meet-up; we’re a fun loving group, and enjoy networking and talk through challenges in testing. Cheers 🍻 https://www.meetup.com/innovations-in-software-testing-uk/events/293635453

Hello all, anyone in London or will be attending the AWS summit on the 7th of June, please feel free to drop in for a happy hour from Snyk, CircleCI, Sysdig and Nuaware! https://circle.ci/LondonEvent

Hi from Norwich

Ooo was just out that way. Had a lovely Sunday roast in the broads 😋

Hi from Bristol 🐑 🍎

Hi from Morpeth

Bumping this up! Can't wait to see this happen! 😛latformcon23: