This post is pinned as I will be updating this on the fly as and when I attend/discover or like/dislike events.
So which one next?
Let’s wait until the new year to see what’s in store.

| Conference | Description |
|---|---|
| AWS Summit | Regional events with dedicated security stream. |
| AWS reinforce | Conference focused on security, compliance, identity, and privacy. |
| DevOps Enterprise Summit | Takes place twice a year, one in EU and the other NA. Past talks can be found here. |
| DevOps Days | Multi regional events. |
| DevSecCon24 | 24 hours virtual event across three regions: NA, EMEA, APAC. YouTube Channel. |
| DevSecCon London | “Typically” an in person event held in the autumn. |
| KubeCon | Takes place twice a year, one in EU and the other NA. Past talks can be found here. |
| QCon | Multi-track software development event. YouTube Channel. |
| fwd:cloudsec | — |
| WeAreDevelopers | — |
| SEACON:Global | — |
| BlackHat | Events in Las Vegas and London. |
| DefCon | Takes place in Sin City - Las Vegas. |
| BSides | Plenty of local events. The London one. |
| 44Con | One of the largest UK security conference. |
| ADDO | All Day DevOps (ADDO) - 24 online virtual goodness. |
| Kubernetes Community Days UK 2022 | 2 Days of k8s in person event. |
| YOW! London 2022 | A wonder new (for me) 2 day conference covering best practices in the software industry. |
| Community Meetups | Description |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps - London Gathering | DSO-LG is a mix of virtual and in-person event taking place in London, UK. |
| Cloud Native London | The first Cloud Native meetup I attended |
| London DevOps | One of the original DevOps community. |
| OWASP London Chapter | My local OWASP chapter. |
| Podcasts | Description |
|---|---|
| DSO Overflow | Complimentary podcast to the monthly DSO-LG meetup. |
| C9K | My weekly all in one YouTube news reel. |
| Darknet Diaries | Very professionally done and great stories of real life security events. |
| Malicious Life | Very similiar to Darnet Diaries but in a different style. |
| The Secure Developer | One to one interviews with practioneers. |
| Application Security Podcast | — |
| Profound | — |
| Bucket | Of | Books |
|---|---|---|
| The Phoenix Project | The Unicorn Project | DevSecOps |
| The DevOps Handbook (2nd Edition) | Project to Product | Accelerate |
| The Lean Startup | Team Topologies | Cyber Defense Matrix |
| Continuous Delivery Pipeline | The Art of Software Security Assessment | Secure By Design |
| Cult of the Dead Cow | Agile Application Security | The Five Dysfunctions of a Team |
| Hacking Kubernetes | Securing DevOps | Monolith to Microservices |
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