Internet as an everyday necessity for many of us, we browse through many websites from social medias, search engines, to breaking news on the internet. One minute of website downtime can cost companies of example Apple to lose tens of thousands of dollars during the release of newest MacBook, have you ever thought about what goes behind maintaining functionality of websites when high volumes of internet traffic wanting to funnel in at the same time? What are the precautions to maintain a website's functionally when it is struck by massive loads?

Today we are joined by Ricky Blacker he is a self taught web professional from WP Engine. Ricky has been active in co-hosting Sunshine Coast & Brisbane WordPress Meetup Groups, and loves sharing his knowledge about Word Press to help out the new learners. Find out more in this episode of The Router!

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In this episode of the router, we welcome David Gwynne to share some insights into making contributions to open source products. David is an Infrastructure Architect here at UQ, and has co-authored changes to the OpenBSD kernel. OpenBSD is a completely open source operating system that aims to provide transparency with the software that runs on your computer. At 25 years old it has seen many contributors, but still making that first step can be daunting! David talks about how he got started, and what you can do to contribute to open source projects like OpenBSD!

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Today, Rachel has a chat with Graham Cummins from KJR, all about consultancy, KJR’s graduate opportunities, community in KJR, and their latest projects.

Graham is a general regional manager at KJR. KJR is a Software Quality Engineering consultancy, and one of UQCS’s silver sponsors this year, with over 25 years of experience in tech consulting, software testing and IT solutions. They provide services like software quality and assurance to DevSecOps for a range of industries across both public and private sectors in Australia. Apart from that he’s also involved as a QLD Council Member for the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).

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