Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tools

George Smith has spent more than 25 years in the IT industry. During this time he has held a variety of positions, starting with web UI development and business analysis, progressing with system administration and infrastructure, then switching to core systems programming, technical consulting, and finally becoming an E-Commerce Architect and Subject Matter Expert. He is well versed in modern trends like Containerization, Infrastructure as Code, Serverless computing models, and more. George demo... morenstrates a passion for cutting-edge system design leveraging the latest in tech to help enterprises achieve their desired business results. He has recently published "IT Career Paths: Take the Helicopter" on Amazon KDP. George holds a Master in IT degree from Bentley University (Boston, MA) and Master in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He ... morelives in Kennedale, TX with his wife and children.

Subhasish is a DevOps, SecOps and Cloud engineer, trainer, and a part-time economist. He has been working as a DevOps and cloud engineer since 2015. In his free time, he trains people in DevOps and cloud technologies. Subhasish has designed the cloud infrastructure of many clients and has helped them set up their CI-CD, monitoring, logging, and alerting pipelines. He is experienced in designing both 2 tier and 3 tier architecture on both AWS and GCP clouds. He is also interested in containerizat... moreion and orchestration technologies. He has been working on Docker and Kubernetes since 2017 and helping people understand the benefits of containerization, orchestration, and continuous delivery on software delivery and the overall profitability of an organization. He has designed many production-grade k8s clusters using Kops and Rancher. For the past one-year Subhasish has been exploring Security aspects of the software operations.

Floyd is, through and through, a programmer at heart. He began programming at age 9 drawing pictures with the Logo programming language, and has been in love with programming ever since. His development background includes both native and web UIs, high-performance server logic, intricate multithreaded network I/O, and big data processing. Floyd has created software for many industries: precision agriculture, GIS, finance, commodities trading, oil & gas, digital imaging, document intelligence, an... mored more. The software he has built has expanded his employers' market penetration, earned millions in sales, revolutionized user experience, and crushed competitors. A passionate teacher, Floyd frequently presents at Tulsa area user groups and conferences, and is among Tulsa's strongest advocates for the craft of software development.