umBristol Talks - April 2026

Hello fellow Umbracians,

In the greatest redemption story of all time Carl Sargunar will be sharing his demo from Umbraco Spark, hosted by Gibe at their offices in Paintworks, Bristol with the usual food and drink provided.

The talks for the evening will be:

• "DDoS My Desk: Load Balancing Live and Uncut!" by Carl Sargunar
  Bringing the cloud to the conference, I'll replicate in miniature a scalable, load-balanced environment to host containers and demonstrate concepts around Load Balancing in a fun and interactive way!
  Using a cluster of mini-computers, a router and some networking magic (and with a healthy sacrifice to the demo gods), we'll re-create a cloud in a mini-cluster and see how it copes with scaling, load-balancing, outages and downtime. There will be audience participation, there will be live demos, there will almost certainly be chaos but you'll learn key concepts needed to understand how load balancing will help you build resilient and scalable apps while having fun at the same time!

Agenda:

• 🚪 18:00 - Doors open
• 🍕 18:15 - Food and drinks
• 🗞️ 18:30 - Welcome/news
• 🗣️ 18:45 - Talks commence
• 🏠 21:00 - Home-time

Hope to see you there!

The umBristol Team