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Hi folks!

Welcome to our May Cloud Native London meetup! Join us to hear from our three great speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube or LinkedIn!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 The End of Handoffs: Build, Run, Own in One Flow (Alberto Pose, Pulumi)
7:15 You Can’t Patch Fast Enough: What AI-Driven Attacks Mean (Idan Elor, Oligo Security)
7:45 Break
8:00 From Zero to HyperPod: Distributed Model Training on AWS (Anton Nazaruk, Cloud Combinator)
8:30 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

The End of Handoffs: Build, Run, Own in One Flow (Alberto Pose, Pulumi)
AI is changing the shape of team structures. A similar shift to the one that brought dev and ops together into DevOps is now happening as product must also meet the accountability bar.
At the same time, tooling has not caught up with "throwing it to Claude/Codex". Engineers are confronted with a choice: trust code and actions they do not fully understand, or... move too slowly.
Are these problems fundamentally new, or are there lessons we can draw from the past to adapt and think about what comes next?

Alberto Pose is a software engineer with a soft spot for developer tooling and infrastructure. He is currently part of the team managing the CI/CD pipelines for Pulumi's open source projects. Before this, he spent nearly ten years at Prime Video and AWS. A major highlight of his time there was helping bootstrap the living room device automation team, taking it from a small group effort to a 30 person organisation that brought full automation to millions of streaming devices worldwide.

You Can’t Patch Fast Enough: What AI-Driven Attacks Mean (Idan Elor, Oligo Security)
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing announcement put the industry on notice. AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape and the risks facing organizations, and it’s happening faster than most security models can adapt.
AI-assisted attackers can now discover vulnerabilities, generate exploits, and launch attacks at rates never seen before, collapsing the window between disclosure and exploitation. In this environment, patching alone is no longer enough.
For cloud-native applications, where systems are dynamic and constantly evolving, this creates a new challenge: how do you stay protected when you can’t fix vulnerabilities fast enough?
This talk explores how the attacker model is shifting in the AI era, why traditional approaches are breaking down, and what it means to move from vulnerability-based security to real-time protection at runtime. We’ll cover how focusing on exploit techniques enables teams to stop attacks as they happen, including zero-days.

Idan Elor is Field CTO at Oligo Security, where he partners with large enterprises to solve complex application and cloud security challenges. He most recently served as Director of Solution Engineering & Tech-Alliances at Apiiro, where he empowered enterprises to secure their software supply chains. With over a decade of experience spanning application security, DevSecOps, and mobile security, Idan has also held leadership positions at companies like Snyk, Symantec, and HP. His unique background combines deep hands-on technical expertise. A passionate advocate for bridging the gap between security and development teams, Idan is known for his ability to translate complex security concepts into actionable strategies that organizations can actually implement.

From Zero to HyperPod: Distributed Model Training on AWS (Anton Nazaruk, Cloud Combinator)
You've got a model that works. You just need more GPUs. How hard can it be? That's where the pain starts.
GPU availability, infrastructure complexity, and cost are the three blockers that trip up even experienced teams when scaling from single-GPU training to serious distributed workloads.
This talk is a practical walkthrough of how to set up distributed model training on AWS - covering the capacity options (On-Demand, Spot, Capacity Blocks, SageMaker Training Plans), when to use each, and a repeatable infrastructure blueprint for compute, networking, storage, and observability. I'll demo provisioning a HyperPod cluster and running a distributed training job with automatic failure recovery, and share the cost levers that matter at scale.
Whether you're a platform engineer supporting ML teams or an ML engineer tired of fighting infrastructure, you'll leave with a decision framework and a blueprint you can implement.

Anton Nazaruk is CTO at Cloud Combinator, where he helps companies run GPU workloads on AWS - from early-stage startups to larger organisations doing distributed training at scale. He focuses on making ML infrastructure repeatable, resilient, and cost-efficient.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anton-nazaruk

Check out https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.

Data Engineers London is partnering once again with the London Snowflake User Group to bring you a data engineering event in the heart of the City of London this May 🎉 Sign up is either through this Meetup event or on LSUG's event. Agenda is as follows:

6:00pm: Doors Open & Networking at Kubrick

6:30pm: Talks Start

🗣️The Speakers🗣️

Lucie Gamby, Data Engineer at Entain (Lucie's LinkedIn)
Talk Title & Talk Abstract: TBD

Yomi Bazuaye, Data, Analytics and ML Engineering Leader (Yomi's LinkedIn)
Talk Title & Talk Abstract: TBD

See you all on the 26th May 🤩

Happy Networking 🍻

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By attending this event, you agree to the following conditions & rules of conduct:

• Admittance into event is as long as places last.
• Respect others' opinions which may differ from your own.
• Keep it appropriate - no harassment of fellow attendees will be tolerated.
• If you see something or have a complaint, please reach out to one of the organisers on LinkedIn or email events@dataengineerslondon.com.

Pollen's out! Come hide from it indoors, and meet like-minded people with a common interest in Linux in a lively pub at the at the May Linux London Meetup "Aren't the day's getting long, now" edition. Whether you are a complete neophyte or Linux warrior with decades of experience, come join the chat about distros, networks, open-source software, personal projects, ... or nothing related whatever.

The venue is the Hand & Racquet in Wimbledon (25-27 Wimbledon Hill Rd, SW19 7NE). https://www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/greater-london/hand-and-racquet

Chris and Gulraj will be sharing hosting duties with at least one of us present at each meetup. Whilst we realise that this venue is not as convenient for some people as our central London former haunts, the pub is only 2 minutes walk from the station, and Wimbledon is exceptionally well connected (only 17 minutes out of London Waterloo mainline, lies on the Sutton branch of the Thameslink, and is a terminus of both the District Line and the Croydon Tramlink).

The pub is on the flat, at street level, including the toilets, although the space reserved for us (presently, at least) is a raised mezzanine area up a small number of steps at the back of the pub. We aim to be inclusive, so if this presents an issue, we'll work with the pub to adjust the arrangements in the future.

Sign-ups are open. Please come join us.

Directions from the station:

Exit the station through the main concourse (near the District Line platforms), turn right along the main road, passing the taxi rank on Orinoco Lane. Cross Alexandra Road at the traffic lights, pass the gym on the corner, then continue past the chemist to reach the pub.

Dive into the latest tech trends and future innovations at Southall Future-Tech Expo 2026—see you there!

Get Ready for SOUTHALL FUTURE-TECH EXPO 2026!

Join us in person for an exciting dive into the latest tech innovations and futuristic gadgets. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, professional, or just curious, this expo is the place to be! Experience hands-on demos, meet cool startups, and connect with fellow tech lovers. Don't miss out on the future—right here in Southall!

Tech Ilford is a hands-on festival of creative tech! Mainly free and lots of fun for all the family.

Join us on Saturday 13 June for Tech Ilford 2026, our annual celebration of innovation, creativity, and hands-on discovery at Redbridge Central Library and SPACE Ilford! Our festival offers exciting and interactive experiences around STEAM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths) for families, young people, and the wider community.

✨ No experience needed—just bring your curiosity! All the activities are free and drop-in, unless otherwise stated and running from 11 am to 3 pm. You don't need a ticket to attend, but sign up here to get regular updates on the program.

Visit the Tech Ilford web page to find out more and see you there soon!