🗞What's New: Local community chapters 🌐 Speakers wanted 🗣 Valentine Day discounts 💸

Discover also upcoming community webinars, tech conferences, some goodies and open cloud & devops positions.

Hi there! 👋

In this issue of the Cloud Study Weekly newsletter you’ll find:

1. 📢 Announcements

2. 🔜 Upcoming Community Events

3. ⌛ Past Community Events

4. 🤝 Conferences to Attend

5. 💸 Goodies & Discounts

6. 📰 Tech News

7. 💼 Jobs

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Announcements 📢

🗣 Speakers Wanted

We are constantly looking for new (and old) speakers to talk at our virtual meetups. Those take place usually on Thursdays at 4 PM GMT. If you are interested to speak at one of our meetups, then please use this form to submit your speaking proposal. We’ll get back to you per email to fix the date. Feel free to forward this message to your peers and colleagues.

🐱‍💻 Build-A-Thon Hackathon

Cloud Study Network is partnering with DataStax to promote their brand new “Build-A-Thon“ hackathon. It will begin on Feb. 21st and will go on for 3 months. A new set of challenge statements will be released each month and hackers can join 1 month or all 3 if they wish. The organizers have got a prize pot of $42k. Cloud Study Network will can form a few teams to participate at this hackathon. You can register by following the link https://go.buildathonhack.com/csn

🌐 Cloud Study Network Local Chapters

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 we are planning to have a kick-off call dedicated to the foundation of local Cloud Study network community chapters across the world. Find details and register at https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Study-Network/events/284000227/

Upcoming Community Events 🔜

• Apache Cassandra Certification Exam Preparation Workshop + FREE Exam Voucher!
  🗓️ Tuesday, February 15, 2022.

• Using Chaos Engineering To Ensure Kubernetes Reliability (free webinar)
  🗓️ Tuesday, February 15, 2022.

• Discussion & Kick-off of Local Cloud Study Network Chapters
  🗓️ Thursday, February 17, 2022.

• Cloud Community Call on Twitter Spaces

  🗓️ Sunday, February 20, 2022.

All upcoming community events can be found at CSN Meetup page. The best way to always stay up to date about the upcoming community events is to add our shared calendar 📅 to your Google Calendar app.

Past Community Events ⌛

• TARS: Towards Building A Microservices Ecosystem
  🗓️ Tuesday, February 8, 2022.

• Integrating Backup Into Your GitOps CI/CD Pipeline
  🗓️ Tuesday, February 8, 2022.

• Cloud Native Live - Building Stability (free webinar)
  🗓️ Wednesday, February 9, 2022.

• Cloud Community Call on Twitter Spaces

  🗓️ Sunday, February 13, 2022.

All past community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.

Conferences to Attend 🤝

• Open Confidential Computing Conference 2022 - Online・February 17. Topics: security.

• Node Congress - Online・February 17-18. Topics: javascript.

Find further conferences & summits in our tech events repository.

Goodies & Discounts 💸

💰 Whizlabs Valentine's Day SALE

The Whizlabs Valentine's Day SALE is now LIVE. During this exciting Sale of the Year, Whizlabs is offering the following deals:

• Flat 40% off on all Online Courses & Practice Tests, Coupon Code: WHIZ40VD

• Flat 30% off on all Premium Subscription plans, Coupon Code: WHIZ30VD

⏳ This sale ends on 15th February 2022.

Claim your Valentin’s Day discount 👉 here.

💰 Pluralsight - 33% Off SALE

Pluralsight along with Coursera are probably the most reputable learning platforms on the market to learn about technologies like cloud computing and and other tech topics.

For a limited time Pluralsight offers a 33% OFF discount to all personal annual standard and premium subscriptions.

⏳ The sale ends on February 15th.

Claim your Pluralsight discount 👉 here.

Tech News 📰

• Salesforce tells employees it's working on NFT cloud service

  Salesforce executives envision a way for creators to publish digital assets on OpenSea's marketplace, according to a meeting attendee.

• Alibaba's Joe Tsai Explains How Cloud Computing Is Making the Olympic Games More Inclusive

  A week ahead of the Winter Olympic Games, Alibaba Group’s Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai said that cloud computing is helping make the world’s largest sporting event more inclusive.

Jobs 💼

• 3x Azure Cloud Architects (Freelance/Contract) in Europe. Join our LinkedIn group to see the details for this position and receive future new openings from fellow community members.

• Engineer with Terraform/ARM+Azure+DevOps skills at KPMG. Find details in this telegram post by our member An. Join our telegram group if you are not there already.

• Find further jobs at our Job Search portal

If your organization is providing internships, looking for junior or senior candidates in cloud computing, you can let us know by submitting this form.

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