DevOps Society - The Human API Workshop

Steve Wade takes over the DevOps Society's Birmingham evening at AND Digital on Brindley Place, 18:00 to 21:00 - three acts rather than a speaker line-up.

It opens with a 15-minute keynote on what is changing across Kubernetes, AI and platform engineering. The main talk, The Human API, asks why engineers who communicate fluently with machines struggle to explain an architectural decision to the person next to them; it is participatory, so you practise on the people around you. The last hour is a presenting workshop in small groups, closing with PowerPoint Karaoke. Wade founded Platform Fix, is a Kubernetes Ambassador, a former Flux maintainer and Istio contributor, and has trained over 6,000 engineers. Free.

Why go: communication training for engineers is usually corporate and generic; this one is run by someone with 15 years in production infrastructure and KubeCon talks behind him. Best for DevOps, SRE and platform engineers.