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7–9 Sept 2016
The Technical and Innovation Centre
Europe/London timezone

Oh f$*k I think I'm running a software company

8 Sept 2016, 16:30
30m
Main Auditorium (The Technical and Innovation Centre)

Main Auditorium

The Technical and Innovation Centre

University of Strathclyde 99 George Street Glasgow G1 1RD
Main Session

Speaker

Mr Colin Silcock (London Internet Exchange Ltd)

Description

Marc Andreessen famously quipped "Software is eating the world". This is absolutely true of networking companies today with a huge amount of excitement around tooling, automation, APIs and orchestration. Over the past two years LINX have built a software department from scratch and have gone from a fairly vast array of unmanaged scripts to carefully version-controlled code, automated tests and builds, and deployment to infrastructure managed with Ansible. We've learned a lot along the way, and wish to share our experiences, pain points, and plans for the future, including our approach to automating network configuration.

Primary author

Mr Colin Silcock (London Internet Exchange Ltd)

Presentation materials