FAUG October meetup
The reason I was excited for this event was because of the palce it was being held at - PolarSquad. I had applied for a position at this organisation and even though I did not get an interview, I had received a good email back - detailing the things I needed to concentrate on. I like that. A human touch!
So I’m excited for that. Update - I met the guy who had sent that email. We talked a little. I told him the story. We connected on Linkedin.
I walked from Vallila to here, around 2.7 kms in this crisp Helsinki weather. I enjoyed the walk. This office space is next door to the Irish bar. I don’t know why that was a surprising thing to me. I don’t know what I thought these building would host. As it turns out, tech companies.
This is a cool space, a little box, with exposed brick walls, black wooden raised floor/benches, in a little U around the presentation screen, like a little classroom.
In the middle of the U are a few bean bags. I am sitting a little to the left, now considering if I should have took a beanbag instead.
A place like this looks like it would be heavily in-use by the good folks at Polar Squad to demo/teach stuff internally. A dream.
And now, we go for the event.
Building self-service for subscription vending by Juuso Saranki
- Juuso started the talk with a discussion of Azure landing zones
- Then moved on to why subscription democratisation is a great idea and also why it stinks.
- Subscription vending provides user friendly interface and automated provisioning
- This has a few components - data collection (a static web app in the demo) which triggers an azure function which triggers a commit to a repo, which triggers a deployment pipeline (GitHub workflow in the demo) to create a subscription.
AI-Native SDLC: Building the Next Generation Organizations by Marko Klemetti
Marko gave a very interesting talk on how AI will change organisations and SDLC. It was captivating enough that I did not take any notes during the talk. The demo that Marko tried to do did not work - but that was OK.
The main takeaways were this -
- AI will surpass human capabilities soon, but rewiring societies will take time.
- Change is inevitable. Change before you have to.
- New features can be delivered in minutes using AI in different stages of software development.
- Major productivity gains after going to autonomous agents/software factory models.
The pizza was great. It was super spicy with a tinge of sweetness from the onion on top. I loved it! The best pizza I’ve had.
One other thing was the organisers giving shout-outs to other groups doing meetups in Finland.
