Ready for Container Technologies?

As a creative agency you need to be ahead of the crowd to deliver best-in-class digital. Your Clients expect you to build high-performance, scalable creative technologies that deliver minimal latency, high availability and a consistent user experience. As the trusted agency partner, you’ll be turned to as the be-all, know-all expert on new and emerging technologies. And that’s where we can help.

In this workshop we’ll discuss how you can transform the capabilities of your agency, by adopting a polyglotic approach to application development through the use of container technologies. We’ll aim to give you the tools to mix and match technologies to come up with the best solution for building, deploying and managing projects for clients.

We’ll provide an overview of container technologies, and how they can contribute to flexible app development. Using real life examples, we’ll deep dive into how best to manage container-based projects, allowing you to determine workflows, tinker with the setup and deploy a sample project in production at scale.

Format: hands-on workshop
Audience: techies/scrummasters/creative tech leads working for digital agencies; the container beginner and the container intermediate tinkerer
Duration: 3 hours (18:00 - 21:00)

Workshop Agenda:
- Introduction and setup of laptops
- Presentation: how agencies use containers? The what, why & how
- Introduction to the hands-on session
- Break and hand out guide with step-by-step instruction for first half
- Hands-on Lab - part 1
- Break and hand out guide with step-by-step instruction for second half
- Hands-on Lab - part 2
- Wrap-up

About the Trainer:
Daniël van Gils is a polyglot developer advocate at Cloud 66. He helps other polyglot developers craft ruby (on rails) web applications and container based microservice architectures with ♥. An accomplished creative technologist, Daniel has vast and varied experience in application development, agile workflows and building container technologies at scale, gained working in the web development, creative technologies and gaming industries. In his spare time he experiments with strawberries in his backyard, likes to surf and practices improvisation theater.

As this is a tutorial, please bring your laptops with you, with the latest version of Docker natively installed. It’s highly recommended for participants to have a basic degree of practical familiarity with using Docker. This session is not suited for non-technical practitioners.

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