Containers and Cloud Native Roadshow - DC

The Container & Cloud-Native Roadshow is a unique hands-on experience for building, deploying, and managing containerized cloud-native applications using industry-standard open source technologies. Focused on educating and enabling attendees based on their role (Ops or Dev), you'll learn how Red Hat® OpenShift changes the way you run mission-critical applications.

What You'll Learn:

Ops Team Track:

OpenShift and container-native storage fundamentals
Introduction to OpenShift platform management
Introduction to application management on OpenShift
Application storage management with container-native storage

Dev Team Track:

Introduction to cloud-native applications
Building microservices with Wildfly Swarm, Spring Boot, and Eclipse Vert.x
Increasing developer productivity with containers
Resilient and fault-tolerant microservices' continuous integration and continuous delivery

Speaker and Presenter Information

SIAMAK SADEGHIANFAR

Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Open Shift

Red Hat

Siamak Sadeghianfar is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager for OpenShift Container Platform at Red Hat and is a frequent blogger, speaker, and an open-source enthusiast. Siamak has 15+ years of experience at web-scale companies and strives to educate IT professionals, customers and partners on how to utilise new technologies, architectures and processes to create and deploy large-scale applications, and how to be successful with distributed application design concepts, cloud-native applications, microservices, and DevOps.

ERIK JACOBS

Principal Technical Marketing Manger, OpenShift Enterprise

Red Hat

Erik Jacobs was a solutions architect at Red Hat for 6 years before transitioning to Principal Technical Marketing Manger for OpenShift Enterprise. Through his past work, he is well-versed in a wide range of high-tech arenas including satellite/broadcast, internet, and automotive. He speaks English and Japanese, and some German and Spanish. Erik received his degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and earned a Red Hat Certified Architect.