Join us this month for two of our in-house PHP developers DigitalOcean's Developer Advocate, Erika Heidi and Engineer, Phillip Baker talk about projects they are working on.

Meetup schedule:

6:30pm - Guests arrive. Enjoy food and beverages.

7:00pm - Erika Heidistreaming in live from Amsterdam
Title: Automation made simple with Ansible

Abstract:
Automation tools can save you a lot of time when dealing with server configuration and project deployments. However, some developers might feel slightly intimidated by the complexity present in tools like Puppet and Chef.

This talk will present you Ansible, a clean and straightforward automation tool created with focus on simplicity and efficiency. You will learn how to get started with Ansible and write your first playbooks to control one or hundreds of servers.

Bio:
Erika Heidi is a web developer / devOp working with PHP and Linux for over a decade. Author of the Vagrant Cookbook and open source projects like phansible.com and dev-human.org, she worked many years as an independent developer, experimenting with a large diversity of projects and tools. Erika is an active open source contributor, speaker and writer, working now as developer advocate for DigitalOcean.

8:00pm - Phillip Baker
Title: Containers Throughout your Environment

Abstract:
Containers, and Docker specifically, have exploded in popularity, but it is hard to know when and where to put them to use. Beyond understanding the basics of containerization and how it differs from other technologies, engineers and development teams should consider whether containers can solve problems at different levels of the stack - development, testing, staging or production. This talk will walk through the background of containers and dive into good uses of containers in different areas of a codebase's lifecycle.

Bio:
Phillip Baker is a software engineer at DigitalOcean, focused on web applications and scaling internal systems. Hes an active open source contributor on Github. Phillip has previously worked for New York City startups Hatch Labs and General Assembly. To relax, he's is an avid runner, backpacker and craft beer enthusiast.

8:30p - Get to know your fellow engineers!

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Note: Erika Heidi will be streamed in live. Don't be late.

This meetup will be recorded. Thank you to our venue hosts WeWork!!!

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