DevOps Oxford - October 25

Devops Oxford is back this month with not one but two talks!

Talk #1

Ebru was due to talk at our last DevOps event but unfortunately couldn't attend. She is now available and really wanted to deliver her fantsatic talk! Please do come along.

Would be great to see regular faces and new ones too.

Ebru Cucen: Founder @ Bridgelabs

The AI-Augmented Engineer:What LLMs *Really* Mean for DevOps

Bio: Ebru is currently working on her startup to develop intelligence for small language models so that we can get smart results without burning resources.

She is an architect and strategist with over 20 years of experience designing resilient, scalable, cross-platform systems and multi-cloud transformation projects, sometimes for billion-dollar valued startups, like Kidsloop, or multinational banks DeutscheBank, LloydsBank.

She bumped into devops space without knowing, dramatically cut test environment deployments at BUPA by 98% (from 2 weeks to 2 hours) in 2009, and working on AI-related topics for the last couple of years. She is a proud member of the winning team of Oxford AI Hackathon, with vibe coding and conversational-AI.

She was also an editor of Beginning DevOps book covers Azure, Docker, Kubernetes and author of the book Connecting the Dots: Harness the Power of Graphs & ML. ‎

The Talk: The rise of Large Language Models is more than just a productivity boost—it's a fundamental shift in the DevOps landscape. In this session, Ebru will guide you through the new era of intelligent automation, moving beyond simple prompt engineering to the world of autonomous AI agents.

We'll explore how these most recent developments and tools that can interact with your systems, and the role of Model Context Protocol (MCP).

She will walk through the use cases from generating Infrastructure as Code to automating incident response, you'll gain a clear, practical understanding of how this technology works. More importantly, you will see how it transforms the role of the DevOps engineer from a tactical implementer to a strategic orchestrator of intelligent systems.

Talk #2 Tom Winchester & Alex Lillistone

DevOps in Quantum Computing

DevOps has long be central to classical computing - from general purpose cloud services to high performance computing, these practices have been used to streamline software development and delivery. But how do they translate into the emerging world of qubits and quantum physics?

In this talk we discuss how Oxford Quantum Circuits have applied DevOps principles to meet the challenges of building and operating quantum computers. We'll look at what carries over from the classical world, what needs to change and how DevOps enables scientists and software developers to deliver one of the most advanced computing paradigms of the 21st Century.

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