Fusion Meetup - June 12th

Fusion is a relaxed social meet-up with a key focus on Technology (mainly Software). Join us along with our amazing sponsors and speakers for a great evening of informative talks, some of the best street food Birmingham has to offer, and a warm social environment to meet other like-minded people.

Our next event will be on June 12th at Studio venues.

And we'll be joined by…

Max Woolf, Staff Backend Engineer @ GitLab
Talk - Junior to Senior and beyond!
Coding is the easy part, but now you're in your first role you are the captain of your own career. We'll talk about the skills, techniques and mindset required to grow your software engineering career; either as a technical specialist or as a people manager. I'll talk about how GitLab and other similar companies grow their engineers, what to look out for and how you can avoid making some of the same mistakes I have.

Tejas Kumar, Developer Relations Engineer @ Datastax
Talk - You Are an AI Engineer!
In this talk, we will dive deeper into AI engineering, what it is, and how developers—particularly with a web focus—can get involved building with AI. We'll explore modern technologies like vector stores and techniques like retrieval augmented generation (or RAG) to create truly intelligent AI-native applications.

Reiss Jarvis, Technical Lead / Squad Lead @ BJSS
Talk - From 0 knowledge to 10k Messages a Second
From being thrown into GO bootcamp, sent to the frontlines of development, realising we were surrounded by feeds of messages on all sides and how we dealt with that to create defensive lines to keep it performant and reliable.

Becky Pauley & David Collom, Solutions Engineer and Staff Solutions Engineer @ Jetstack
Talk - Cost Confessions: Tales of Overspending and Redemption
The Cloud can be an amazing - and expensive - place. In a world of tightening budgets and optimising costs, how do we stay in control?

This talk gives a vendor-agnostic view on taking control of your Kubernetes cloud spend, with the best practices and open-source tools to get you there.

We’ll talk about:
- Visibility - understanding your cloud (and Kubernetes) spend
- Right-sizing all the things
- Everyone loves a discount!
- Gotchas to avoid - and how to save yourself from future pain