Ciklum Odessa Speakers' Corners: 5 Dimensions of developing BIG REAL-WORLD CLOUD products

They say that Wednesday is a little Friday. And what could be better than “Little Friday” in Odessa, in the company of professionals and like-minded people who share their rich experience and knowledge? The Odessa office of Ciklum company prepared an unusual series of events in the Speakers' Corner format on Wednesdays , which is united by the general leitmotif of “5 Dimensions of developing BIG REAL-WORLD CLOUD products” .

4th Wednesday of October and 1st Wednesday of November, 5 topics, 5 pros will reveal topics on Dev, DevOps, Ops, QA, ALM !

All events are free of charge by prior registration.
Below is a calendar of events, names of speakers and a list of topics that will be presented to the public with a link to register for each event.


Dimension No. 1: Monitoring Cloud Applications with Application Insights
Description: Application monitoring is one of the most important components in DevOps. We will look at industry requirements for monitoring modern applications, as well as how to solve them with Application Insights.
Speaker: Anton Vidishchev, Program Manager at Edgar Online, Microsoft MVP, MCSD
Date: Wednesday, October 8
Time: 19.00-21.00 Registration
link: goo.gl/x1p5os

Dimension No. 2: Declarative management of virtual machines in Microsoft Azure using Powershell Desired State Configuration
Description: After listening to this report, you will learn about the modern way to declaratively manage Windows Server using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) technology and learn how DSC can be Used in conjunction with virtual machines in Microsoft Azure.
Speaker: Oleg Cherny, Operations lead at Edgar Online, Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCSE
Date: Wednesday, October 15,
Time: 19.00-21.00 Registration
link: goo.gl/xwB62p

Dimension No. 3: Working with data in the cloud - what, why and for what?
Description:As part of the report, let's talk about various cloud storage solutions.
On practical examples in the context of MS Azure and not only - we will consider what is better to use for and how to work with it, we will discuss possible problems and ways to solve them.
Speaker: Eugene Pavliy, RRD Edgar Online Dev & Team Lead, MCTS, MCSD.
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 19.00--21.00 Registration
link: goo.gl/hETR61

Dimension No. 4: Effective test design techniques
Date: Wednesday, October 29
Time: 19.00- 21.00
Description:The report is dedicated to test design techniques, which are designed to help the QA engineer correctly and most effectively develop test cases. Based on ISTQB Advanced Level materials.
Speaker: Stepan Maksimchuk, Manual QC Analyst, Edgar-Online,
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
Registration link: goo.gl/WhbkPb

Dimension No. 5: Agile-team: Team Foundation Server as the basis for continuous integration during product development and release
Description: The report will discuss the use of TFS as a build server using the example project Edgar Online.
It is planned to cover the following issues:
1. The basic model of source code branching during product development and release.
2. Farm assembly servers.
3. The format of the Agile team. Communication between developers, SDET and QC in the iteration process.
4. General description of typical assembly processes and standard assembly templates.
5. Configure load balancing using assembly definition tags.
6. Using Nuget to minimize the load on TFS.
7. Questions and answers.
Speaker: Alexey Antonov, SDPG Lead, Scrum Master, Configuration Manager
Date: Wednesday, November 5,
Time: 19.00- 21.00
Registration link: goo.gl/OKoOQW


All events will be held in the office of Ciklum at the following address: st. Lech Kaczynski, 7. 6th floor of the Rialto Business Center