IIT-DU organises workshop on DevOps

Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka (IIT-DU) organised a workshop on DevOps on Aug 3-4, 2019. The workshop was conducted to inform and train students and industry aspirants on the application and adoption of DevOps in software projects.

The two day-long workshop consisted of six sessions, conducted by industry experts Mohammad Mizanur Rahman (Brainstation-23), Syedur Rahman (The Jaxara It Ltd.), Ratul Basak (Secure Link Services Ltd.) and Bazlur Rahman Rokon (bKash Limited).

Fifty participants joined the workshop, which included students of IIT-DU as well as 13 software engineering students from universities across the country, and 12 young industry professionals.

The event was live streamed via Zoom, supported by Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN). Secure Link Services Ltd. also assisted in organising the event. The institute’s DSSE (Distributed Systems & Software Engineering) Student Research Group initiated and managed the whole event.

As the first national training workshop on DevOps, this event works as a starting point to integrate DevOps in the national software engineering curriculum.