London Platform User Group (LoPUG)

👉 New Year, New Meetup event 🎉 We're kicking off 2025 with a fantastic lineup of speakers for our next London Platform User Group (LoPUG) meetup on 29th January: - Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino of Diagrid will present "Platform Engineering: The Past, The Present and The Future (in the context of Kubernetes and CNCF)" - Simon Forster will present "Don't Let Me Down! Effective Solution Design for Critical Applications and Platforms" 🎉 We'll be back at the fabulous Accurx offices in Shoreditch so join us for amazing #PlatformEngineering chats, along with food and drink (and of course, the mandatory fun)! Spaces still available, sign up link in comments...

Kicking off LoPUG with Paula Kennedy and our first speaker Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino talking about platforms! 👷👷♀️ A big thanks to Atomico for sponsoring the venue and drinks, and the pizza is on us! 🍕

🚨 VENUE CHANGE FOR TONIGHT (WEDS 29TH JAN) MEETUP 🚨 😥 Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to change the venue for this evening's meetup. 📍 We will now be meeting at the Atomico offices, 29 Rathbone St, London W1T 1NJ.  🕰️ Timing will be the same (doors open at 6.30pm, meetup starts at 7pm) and we will be providing food and drinks as usual. 🙏 Apologies for the last minute change and any inconvenience, hope you can still make it.

🛏️ Only one more sleep until our next London Platform User Group (LoPUG)meetup (Wednesday 29th January)! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers: - Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino of Diagrid will present "Platform Engineering: The Past, The Present and The Future (in the context of Kubernetes and CNCF)" - Simon Forster will present "Don't Let Me Down! Effective Solution Design for Critical Applications and Platforms" 🎉 We're at the fabulous Accurx offices in Shoreditch so join us for amazing #PlatformEngineering chats, along with food and drink (and of course, the mandatory fun)! A few spaces are still available, sign up link in comments...

🤩 As the end of 2024 draws near, it's a great time to look back and thank all of the amazing speakers we've had this year at #LOPUG: January = Benedict Steele & Sarah Wells March = Engin Diri, Abby Bangser & Michel Murabito 🚀 April = Gregor Hohpe & Lesley Cordero May = ☁️Marcus Noble & Callum Daw July = Leena Mooneeram & Steven Hawkins September = Ettie Eyre & Nicki Watt November = Luke Hinds & Lian Li 😊 We've covered an amazing range of topics, from systems thinking to product mindset and much, much more. A huge THANK YOU to all of the speakers who gave up their time to provide such amazing talks. 🍕 Thanks also to our sponsors who have provided us with drinks and food throughout the year: Syntasso, Accurx, OpenCredo, Atomico, ClearBank & Mia-Platform. 👏 And thank you to all our #LOPUG attendees who have made the events so much fun. We're looking forward to 2025, registration for our January event is already open, with 2 fantastic speakers: Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino & Simon Forster (link in comments). 🙏 Wishing everyone in our community a happy holidays and Happy New Year 🎇

☺️ What a fantastic night we had for our last 2024 meetup 🥂 - Thanks to our amazing speakers Luke Hinds & Lian Li for sharing their talks with us. - Thanks to 🔍 Lauren Chancellor and the lovely folks at Accurx for hosting us and to Syntasso for the pizza (don’t forget both companies are hiring 😉) - And thanks to all the folks who joined us despite the cold. It was lovely to see some familiar faces and to meet some new folks. 📆 Our next meetup is planned for January 29th, see you in 2025!!

🎉Tonight is the night 🎉 Join us from 6.30pm to talk all things #PlatformEngineering, #Security and #SystemsThinking There are still a few spaces left: https://lnkd.in/enr9EJVg #LOPUG

📅 Join us on Wednesday night (27th November) for our final meetup of 2024. We're back at the awesome Accurx offices in Shoreditch and we have two super speakers lined up: - Luke Hinds of Stacklok will be presenting "Protecting your supply chain with Trusty and Minder" - Lian Li will be presenting "Systems Thinking for Dev Organisations" There are still some spaces available so click here to register: https://lnkd.in/eKqSqeBv 🍕 There'll also be pizza and drinks and fun, hope to see you there! #PlatformEngineering #LOPUG

🙏 Thank you to everyone who came out to London Platform User Group (LoPUG) tonight. 🍕We had a great turnout with lots of excellent questions and conversations, plus some tasty pizza and drinks (thanks to our generous sponsors OpenCredo & Syntasso). ❤️ Especially big THANKS to our amazing speakers Ettie Eyre and Nicki Watt for two fantastic talks. Our next meetup is 27th November, looking forward to seeing folks there for our end of year meetup 🎄 #PlatfromEngineering #PlatformAsProduct #LOPUG https://lnkd.in/euytn_zi

😴 Only one more sleep till our next meetup! For our September get-together tomorrow (Weds 18th Sept) we'll be at the OpenCredo offices in London where we'll have two fantastic speakers: - Ettie Eyre of Lloyds Banking Group will present "Platforms Riding the Wave of Changing Organisations" - Nicki Watt of OpenCredo will present "Maturing Your Platform Engineering Initiative" We still have a few spots available so click here to register: https://lnkd.in/eMnpa3K9 🍕 There'll also be pizza and drinks and fun, hope to see you there! #PlatformEngineering #LOPUG