18:30 Wed 1 Apr 2026, BCS London & online: The Promise of the Cloud is Broken - So, I've built a new one
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Immo Hüneke
Mar 3, 2026, 3:22:52 PM (11 days ago) Mar 3
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BCS Software Practice Advancement specialist group
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Reminder: There's still just time to register for Nick Stylianou's tutorial "Introduction to OR" on 4th March: https://spa04032026.eventbrite.co.uk/
SPA-411: The Promise of the Cloud is Broken - So, I've built a new one
Speaker: Sean Tracey, Mitchell Software
When: Wednesday 1st April 2026, 18:00 for 18:30 - 20:00 GMT
Where: BCS London, 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP and also online
Price: Free
Booking Link: https://SPA010426.eventbrite.co.uk
Your confirmation email will provide the next step to enable you to access the webinar. 48 hours and 1 hour prior to the event reminder emails will be sent to those registered, with the non-transferable URL needed to gain access. The session will be recorded. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please keep your microphone muted.
AGENDA
* 6:00pm - networking in BCS London over refreshments
* 6:30pm - presentation and demo begins
* 8:00pm - networking in BCS London (pizza & refreshments)
* 8:45pm at the latest: everyone off the premises (reconvene at The Old Doctor Butler's Head for more drinks & networking)
SYNOPSIS
It's been 20 years since the term "Cloud" Computing first entered our collective minds - and given the size of the main cloud platforms these days, you'd be forgiven for thinking that building out cloud services is the exclusive purview of huge, multinational enterprises beyond the scope or capability of us mere mortals... But, I disagree - and I think that almost every cloud platform consumer is now being taken for a ride with arbitrary price hikes, artificial scarcity, and the false notion that if you're not shipping huge infrastructures, you're not doing it right.
So, what can you do about that? Well, I've built my own Cloud Platform - fledgling.cloud - to show that Cloud Computing can still be Cheap, Fast, and Good.
In this talk, I'll walk people through the entire fledgling.cloud stack: from compute providers, to isolation layers, to the pricing model, and more!
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Sean Tracey describes himself simply as a “technologist” - a deliberately broad title that reflects both his curiosity and his refusal to be confined to a single discipline. Rather than following a conventional career path, he has built a professional life around exploring the many possibilities of technology, creating products, experimenting with ideas, and working across diverse technical domains. He is currently building his own products at Mitchell Technologies.
Over the course of his career, Tracey has held senior developer advocacy and developer relations roles at several major organisations. He has served as Head of Developer Relations at Expanso, working on Bacalhau, Developer Relations Manager at Moneyhub, Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services, Developer Advocate at IBM, Developer in the Labs department at Financial Times, and Creative Technologist at Redweb.
His core technical skills include JavaScript, Go, Python, and embedded programming with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. In addition to his development work, Tracey is an accomplished technical writer. Since 2013, he has published three books and 49 articles across three internationally distributed magazines. His writing primarily focuses on practical tutorials covering JavaScript, Python, and Arduino programming, though he has also authored feature pieces.
Much of his work is available online, along with open-source code shared via his GitHub profile. Tracey’s projects have received industry recognition and award nominations over the years.
Since 2012, he has won a BIMA award and been a finalist twice more. His work has also earned a Wirehive 100 Award for Best Use of Tech and a Media Innovation Award for Creative Craft. In 2018, he received the IBM Developer Ecosystems Group Innovation Award for developing W3ID middleware that simplified SSO integration for Node.js Express applications. In 2020, he was part of the team behind “Choirless,” an application built during lockdown that enabled remote group singing; the project won the IBM UK Labs Internal Call for Code Contest and placed second globally among 6,500 participants in IBM’s Call for Code Internal Challenge.
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BCS SPA Home Page - http://bcs-spa.org/
Meetings Schedules
London - http://bcs-spa.org/index.php?page=london-meeting-programme
Cambridge - see http://http://softwareast.ning.com/events
Presentation materials from previous talks are available from the BCS SPA resources site: http://bcs-spa.org/resources.html
Also see YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-
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SPA London Meetings Programme Organiser - Immo Huneke, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. [mailto:Im...@Huneke.Co.UK]
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Forthcoming meetings: We're looking for volunteers to present or lead workshops on topics of interest to software practitioners. Please come forward with suggestions!
5 May 2026: SPA-411 Mark Collins-Cope: Stop BASHing your head against the wall!
========================================
Reminder: There's still just time to register for Nick Stylianou's tutorial "Introduction to OR" on 4th March: https://spa04032026.eventbrite.co.uk/
SPA-411: The Promise of the Cloud is Broken - So, I've built a new one
Speaker: Sean Tracey, Mitchell Software
When: Wednesday 1st April 2026, 18:00 for 18:30 - 20:00 GMT
Where: BCS London, 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP and also online
Price: Free
Booking Link: https://SPA010426.eventbrite.co.uk
Your confirmation email will provide the next step to enable you to access the webinar. 48 hours and 1 hour prior to the event reminder emails will be sent to those registered, with the non-transferable URL needed to gain access. The session will be recorded. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please keep your microphone muted.
AGENDA
* 6:00pm - networking in BCS London over refreshments
* 6:30pm - presentation and demo begins
* 8:00pm - networking in BCS London (pizza & refreshments)
* 8:45pm at the latest: everyone off the premises (reconvene at The Old Doctor Butler's Head for more drinks & networking)
SYNOPSIS
It's been 20 years since the term "Cloud" Computing first entered our collective minds - and given the size of the main cloud platforms these days, you'd be forgiven for thinking that building out cloud services is the exclusive purview of huge, multinational enterprises beyond the scope or capability of us mere mortals... But, I disagree - and I think that almost every cloud platform consumer is now being taken for a ride with arbitrary price hikes, artificial scarcity, and the false notion that if you're not shipping huge infrastructures, you're not doing it right.
So, what can you do about that? Well, I've built my own Cloud Platform - fledgling.cloud - to show that Cloud Computing can still be Cheap, Fast, and Good.
In this talk, I'll walk people through the entire fledgling.cloud stack: from compute providers, to isolation layers, to the pricing model, and more!
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Sean Tracey describes himself simply as a “technologist” - a deliberately broad title that reflects both his curiosity and his refusal to be confined to a single discipline. Rather than following a conventional career path, he has built a professional life around exploring the many possibilities of technology, creating products, experimenting with ideas, and working across diverse technical domains. He is currently building his own products at Mitchell Technologies.
Over the course of his career, Tracey has held senior developer advocacy and developer relations roles at several major organisations. He has served as Head of Developer Relations at Expanso, working on Bacalhau, Developer Relations Manager at Moneyhub, Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services, Developer Advocate at IBM, Developer in the Labs department at Financial Times, and Creative Technologist at Redweb.
His core technical skills include JavaScript, Go, Python, and embedded programming with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. In addition to his development work, Tracey is an accomplished technical writer. Since 2013, he has published three books and 49 articles across three internationally distributed magazines. His writing primarily focuses on practical tutorials covering JavaScript, Python, and Arduino programming, though he has also authored feature pieces.
Much of his work is available online, along with open-source code shared via his GitHub profile. Tracey’s projects have received industry recognition and award nominations over the years.
Since 2012, he has won a BIMA award and been a finalist twice more. His work has also earned a Wirehive 100 Award for Best Use of Tech and a Media Innovation Award for Creative Craft. In 2018, he received the IBM Developer Ecosystems Group Innovation Award for developing W3ID middleware that simplified SSO integration for Node.js Express applications. In 2020, he was part of the team behind “Choirless,” an application built during lockdown that enabled remote group singing; the project won the IBM UK Labs Internal Call for Code Contest and placed second globally among 6,500 participants in IBM’s Call for Code Internal Challenge.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BCS SPA Home Page - http://bcs-spa.org/
Meetings Schedules
London - http://bcs-spa.org/index.php?page=london-meeting-programme
Cambridge - see http://http://softwareast.ning.com/events
Presentation materials from previous talks are available from the BCS SPA resources site: http://bcs-spa.org/resources.html
Also see YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
SPA London Meetings Programme Organiser - Immo Huneke, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. [mailto:Im...@Huneke.Co.UK]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forthcoming meetings: We're looking for volunteers to present or lead workshops on topics of interest to software practitioners. Please come forward with suggestions!
5 May 2026: SPA-411 Mark Collins-Cope: Stop BASHing your head against the wall!
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