Fusion Meetup
Studio Venues, 7 Cannon Street
Birmingham, B2 5EP
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Fusion is back for the final event of 2024! You should expect incredible speakers, tasty food from our fellow brummie foodies, and those delicious cupcakes!
Join us at Studio Venues, Cannon Street, Birmingham on Thursday 21st November at 6pm for another evening of Fusion goodness.
We have a strict Code of Conduct at Fusion and we ask that you read it before purchasing a ticket to attend Fusion Meetup – About (thefusionhub.co.uk). In short - be kind and respectful of others.
So who will be joining us???
Talks
Making Monzo Magic
A talk about the care we put into tooling and a deep drive on how we scaled that to build a new system for handling cron jobs
Joe Rowe
Production Engineer @ Monzo
What your browser can teach you about building secure software
We take browsers for granted; they’re ubiquitous and they’ve been around for ages…But have you ever stopped to think about what they do?
They execute arbitrary code, from untrusted sources on the Internet…by design. And we’re supposed to be OK with that? Unsurprisingly, how they do this provides some useful lessons in how we can design and build secure systems. This talk, from a security engineer (and a recovering browser engineer) takes you through some of those lessons
Mark Goodwin
Senior Staff Security Engineer @ Causaly
Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software
I've always been interested in the composition of Open Source and internal dependencies that my projects use, and after years of wanting some way to query the data, I went ahead and built it!
Having access to this data has allowed me and my team to get a view of what our most popular languages or frameworks are, which packages we didn't realise we so heavily rely on, determine how many dependencies are using end-of-life software, or just understand the way that internally-built libraries are used across the organisation.
This data has given my company's developers, leadership and the security team a better view of the landscape of our ever growing dependencies on Open Source, so we can appropriately upgrade, migrate, and support projects.
In this talk, you'll learn that it's straightforward to do this yourself with Free and Open Source Software, as well as looking at some examples of the data that you can get out of this tooling for your own purposes.
Jamie Tanna
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Magic Notes: transforming Casework
Kirsty Thomas-Brown
Senior Pathway Coach @ Beam
The mazy web she whirls: starting Open Web Advocacy
There is an organisation called OWA. There is a muse called the Lady of Shalott. They’re both believers in opening the web. And both of them need your help. If you’ve ever wondered (while you’re looking angrily at caniuse) why you are half-sick of drop-shadow(), or why the web is cracked from side to side… your loyal knight and true is here.
Stuart Langridge
Stuart is a consultant CTO, software architect, and developer to startups and small firms on strategy, custom development, and how to best work with the dev team, and a founder member of Open Web Advocacy. Code and writings are to be found at kryogenix.org and @sil@mastodon.social; Stuart himself is mostly to be found playing D&D or trying to find the best sandwich in town.
Sponsors
Fusion is made possible with the help of our awesome sponsors!
Jadu
Jadu is a provider of Web Experience Management software, specialising in Web CMS, Forms, Portal and Customer Case Management tools for the enterprise.
Bluetel
Bluetel is engineering-led technical agency, expert at delivering business value through cloud technology.
If you're interested in either supporting Fusion meetup in 2024, or interested in offering a talk...please contact us here: Fusion Meetup – Contact the Fusion Team (thefusionhub.co.uk)