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Upgrading the backend database of a £3 billion business website on a Friday Afternoon with Ansible #5

Closed jamesfreeman959 closed 5 years ago

jamesfreeman959 commented 6 years ago

Talk title

Upgrading the backend database of a £3 billion business website on a Friday Afternoon with Ansible

Talk Description

I am giving the following talk at AnsibleFest in Austin in October and would be happy to repeat it in London at the MeetUp if there is interest:

An unwritten rule in the world of IT Operations is that you never make changes on a Friday afternoon, especially not upgrading the backend database for a business e-commerce site contributing a £2 billion revenue. Ansible Tower makes the unthinkable thinkable by producing reliable, consistent, repeatable results, and removing the possibility of human error from activities. One major retailer of sportswear in the UK were so impressed with the performance of Ansible that they felt confident enough to do just this!

Estimated Duration

Can be tailored to suit - 15-30mins?

Shaps commented 6 years ago

This seems very interesting to me, and I think we should give it at least a 30 min slot, which I'm not sure we can accomodate for the Oct 15th meetup. Unless @gundalow says otherwise.

@jamesfreeman959 would this be ok with you?

gundalow commented 6 years ago

Hi, I agree that this would be a great topic, though I don't think 15 minutes could give it justice and allow suitable time for Q&A.

We will have another meetup in December, date to be confirmed, so maybe we can pencil you in for December?

gundalow commented 5 years ago

@jamesfreeman959 would you be available to present at the December meetup https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-London/events/254878934/

jamesfreeman959 commented 5 years ago

Yes absolutely - sorry for the late replies - for some reason I didn't get notification of these updates to my e-mail until yesterday evening. Anyway it would be a pleasure to come and present - thank you for the slot - I'll put it in the diary now. The talk went down well at AnsibleFest in Austin so hopefully in London it will be equally well received.

gundalow commented 5 years ago

@jamesfreeman959 Do you have a twitter handle, so I can @mention you?

jamesfreeman959 commented 5 years ago

Yes indeed - please use @jamesfreeman959 - I haven't used it a lot but you're welcome to mention me. Might prompt me to start using it again!

gundalow commented 5 years ago

@jamesfreeman959 Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday 12th December!

jamesfreeman959 commented 5 years ago

@gundalow Likewise!

gundalow commented 5 years ago

@jamesfreeman959 Just realised we hadn't confirmed duration, is 30 minutes OK?

jamesfreeman959 commented 5 years ago

Yes absolutely fine - I can always tailor it to suit anyway. Do you know roughly when you'll be putting me up to speak?

jamesfreeman959 commented 5 years ago

Hi @gundalow - my son is poorly and on antibiotics - I'm still coming tonight but I'd like to avoid too late a bed time for him and I need to get back for him (it's a long story...). Is there any chance of a late alteration to the running order please? Could I possibly go on first or second? I wouldn't normally ask for a late change and I know the agenda has gone out, but I hope we might be able to agree an exception here.

gundalow commented 5 years ago

@jamesfreeman959 sorry to hear that, I totally understand. 6:00pm people arrive 6:30pm my intro 6:45pm your presentation

Does that work for you?

jamesfreeman959 commented 5 years ago

Thank you so much @gundalow - that would be awesome. I'll hang around for as long as I am able but will discretely take my leave a little early. I'm more than happy to leave my contact details for attendees though so if I do miss out on any networking at the end, or there are follow on questions I'm very happy for those attending to contact me outside of the MeetUp. Perhaps I can leave some business cards just in case?

gundalow commented 5 years ago

Sure that would be great.

gundalow commented 5 years ago

@jamesfreeman959 Thank you once again for your presentation, it's been added to https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-london-meetup/tree/master/presentations/2018-12-12

Over the next week or so I'll get the video processed and linked to the above URL.