GitLab<\/a> brought a wave of sunny American warmth to a cold October day as it conducted its very first UK conference. It’s safe to say the conference was\u00a0 welcoming, insightful and even came with its very own freshly barista made coffee.<\/p>\nWith GitLab being a Cloud-native CI company, the day was all about DevOps, end users, developers and security, with professionals all discussing how this company has helped their working lives.<\/p>\n
Talks and discussions<\/h4>\n
Welcoming the audience to their day ahead was a keynote speech from Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder of the cloud-native CI company, who discussed cycle time compression and the affect that software is having in the world. \u201cCycle time is the time between deciding to do something and getting feedback from users using that thing in production\u201d He announced in the speech he titled,\u00a0 \u2018The Power of Gitlab\u2019. Adding, \u201cCycle time compression is reducing that time and reducing the time it takes to ship software off to users and we agree it\u2019s the key to business success because software is leading the world. Any improvement in business has to be implemented in software.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next to speak in a talk titled \u2018Establishing a DevOps Culture @Porsche\u2019, was two software engineers from the high end car company who spoke of how GitLab had enabled their progression with building up a portfolio in digital services and how this has enabled the progression of the automation world.<\/p>\n
Alberto Gisberty, a representative of Porsche said, \u201cComing to an open source company takes time\u2026 We wanted to have a single source of truth, we didn\u2019t want to go to different tools to check things\u2026.With the features we have, we wanted make sure that we had a fit, which is basically why we chose Gitlab.\u201d<\/p>\n
Break- off sessions<\/h4>\n
Other talks included speeches named \u2018Flying from Base to Native within the Cloud\u2019 and \u2018Closing the SDLC Loop\u2019. Afternoon break-off sessions ranged from further, more in-depth thoughts on cloud-native and DevOps to more specific GitLab focused talks like, \u201cWhat Not to do whilst Using GitLab\u2019 and \u2018From Zero to Production with Rust, Python and GitLab\u2019.<\/p>\n
A quote from representatives at Siemens perfectly summed up what working with GitLab as part of a DevOps culture is about when they said \u201cIt\u2019s all about people\u2026 have the technical skills and the people skills to bring that transaction into the company. You have to walk the walk and look after your customers\u201d.<\/p>\n
The conference came after GitLab announced last month<\/a> that it had managed to raise a massive $268 million to help expand the firm. The aim of the investment was to use the money to extend its DevSecOps and monitoring platforms<\/a>. Adding to this, the cloud-native organisation also released a product they are calling \u2018Enterprise\u2019, which can now be used on VMware Cloud Marketplace.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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