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005_JulyMeetup.md

OUR THIRD MEETUP Thursday, July 5th, 6pm at DevOpsGroup offices, Cardiff. One again held at the offices of DevOpsGroup on the 22nd floor overlooking Cardiff, the Meetup was kicked off by Lewis with a brief introduction to CloudNativeWales and its Code of Conduct. Talk: Cloud Native Logging: “Turning it up to XI.” Greg Simons First to speak was Greg Simons, who discussed logging, the 11th factor in the Twelve-Factor App methodology.
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004_JuneMeetup.md

OUR SECOND MEETUP Wednesday, June 20th, 6pm at DevOpsGroup offices, Cardiff. At the offices of the (newly-rebranded) DevOpsGroup, on the 22nd floor overlooking Cardiff Castle, the Meetup was kicked off by Lewis and Salman, with a brief reminder of what CloudNativeWales is, and the community’s Code of Conduct. Then it was time for the first talk! Talk: Hassle-free, scalable Machine Learning with Kubeflow Basia Fusinska Basia works at Google in London as a Strategic Cloud Engineer and has a strong background in both software development and Machine Learning algorithms.
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003_SINCEKUBECON.md

SINCE KUBECON We’re sending out tweets and emails to people we’ve met in KubeCon. Being personal is a core value for us, but there is some content cross-over. Rather than send you several links, we thought we could host a blog post instead to direct you around. Here’s a clip of what we got up to at KubeCon: When @SoulmanIqbal & @denhamparry went to @CloudNativeFdn #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon! Sound On, make it loud 🔊 #Copenhagen pic.
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002_LIGHTNINGTALK.md

Lightning Talk: Book Club Lewis (https://twitter.com/denhamparry) presented a lightning talk at Swansea Software Development Meetup (SSDM) about the new Cloud Native Wales (CNW) Book Club initiative. The venue that SSDM have at TechHub, Swansea is fantastic. Its a 2 minute walk from the train station and a really comfortable area to watch and give talks. The lightning talk was based on the Ignite format of 15 seconds per slide with a total of 20 slides.
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001_OURFIRSTMEETUP.md

OUR FIRST MEETUP The date is 10th May 2018, you wake up in the morning, thinking it is going to be just like any other day. A yawn and a couple of stretches later it dawns on you that today is the day of the first ever Cloud Native Wales meetup! The one, that Lewis and Salman have been planning for months. Mild panic sets in, to calm your nerves you the following thoughts go through your head:
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000_CNWSETUP.md

Inception It’s a common start to a meetup story, it started in a bar after a couple of beers. I (@denhamparry) attended NDC London at the start of the year (2018) and was booked in for a Kubernetes Workshop with Ben Hall. Speaking with Ben after the workshop I mentioned that I was trying to get into speaking at events and meetups, to which he said “Well, I don’t think anyone has set up Cloud Native Wales…”.
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