About

Why this exists

Every senior engineer has lived through the same evolution of technical community events. The good local meetup in 2014 became the vendor-sponsored webinar in 2018 became the forty-five-minute product demo in 2022. Along the way, the content got worse, the rooms got more performative, and the good parts — the people, the conversation, the sense that you were learning from peers who actually did the work — mostly moved to Slack channels and Discord servers.

DevSecBeerOps is a deliberate attempt to rebuild the good version. Local. In person. Short. Practitioner-led. Sponsored, yes, because someone has to pay for the beer, but curated so that the sponsorship funds the event rather than drives the content.

How it works

We run events at breweries across the US and Canada. Each event is sponsored by a tech vendor — companies you'd recognize from the infrastructure, security, and DevOps space. The sponsor covers the venue and the happy-hour tab. We curate the speaker and the topic. You show up, listen to something useful for about half an hour, and then have a beer.

People subscribe on the site by topics, cities, and breweries they care about. When an event matches, we notify them. Their contact info goes to the sponsor of that event, which is how the sponsor gets ROI on paying for the tab. We're explicit about this up front so nobody's surprised.

Who runs it

DevSecBeerOps is an independent community. It's not owned by or affiliated with any single vendor or employer. It's designed to outlive any one person's day job.