ScaleConf – Cape Town Tech Conference 16 January 2012 | 0 Comments

The ScaleConf is a two-day conference taking place in Cape Town at the famous, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on the 26 and 27 January 2012. Being the first conference of its kind to hit our shores, expectations are high; although with a fantastic local and international line up it seems they are ready for the challenge.  

The creative duo behind this venture is Jonathan Hitchcock and Duncan Phillips. These two had a vision to bring a world-class DevOps culture to South Africa and they made it happen. Jonathan explains, “While in the US I had attended some great technical conferences, and I wanted to bring that level of quality to South Africa.”

Focus Area

The focus will be around the issues companies and individuals are having with building and running services on the internet and the methods used to develop the strong foundations that are needed to operate websites and services. A few of the areas being covered at the event will include Configuration Management, Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring and Metrics, Continuous Deployment and Virtualisation.

Speaker Line-up

The line-up includes some the top names in the international and national market. You can look forward to talks by, Coda Hale (Infrastructure Architect at Yammer Inc.) Miles Ward (Amazon Web Services Technology Solutions Architect), Jonathan Hitchcock (Operations Lead at Yola.com), Craig Raw (Founding CTO, Quirk), Zach Holman (Github) and Wesley Lynch (Founder and CEO of Realmdigital).

The conference is supported by Amazon Web Services, Riak and 2go.

Who should attend?

Members of technical teams dealing with a large or growing customer base as well as business and product people.

Reserve your place

The ticket price is R1250 via EFT or $160 via any other payment method. A percentage of the ticket price will be going to charity. The price of the ticket includes entrance, lunch for both days (a delicious picnic lunch you can enjoy in the gardens), a fantastic line up and great networking opportunities.

Don’t forget there are only 300 spaces available so don’t delay and we hope to see you there. 

Register and get more information at http://scaleconf.org.