Elise McCallum | QCon San Francisco 2018

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Speaker: Elise McCallum

Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

As a senior software engineer on the Productivity Engineering team, Elise McCallum develops and supports the tools that enable continuous integration at Netflix. Elise has a deep interest in optimizing the development lifecycle and path to production to make delivering value as frictionless as possible. Prior to Netflix, Elise worked as a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks, helping companies to tackle challenges both technical and organizational.

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Talk : Evolving Continuous Integration: Applying CI to CI Strategy

Track : Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness

Location : Ballroom BC

Day of week : Wednesday

Duration : 11:50am - 12:40pm

Continuous integration as a practice has come to be virtually synonymous with the tools that enable it. As developer workflows grew increasingly diverse and complex, we saw the need to extend and support continuous integration beyond the commit/test/fix cycle. While our existing tooling generally worked for building commits and running suites of automated tests, we found that reliably building pull requests and simplifying the common cases while still supporting complex configurations still presented challenges.
Inspired by developer feedback and the friction we faced with our existing tooling, we began evolving our continuous integration strategy to focus on increasing velocity, simplifying builds, and providing a more integrated developer experience. This session will explore how we leveraged the best practices and opinions of other CI-first tools, fast feedback and requests from our engineers, and an iterative approach to begin building a new suite of tools to support a diverse set of workflows. We will also dive into the technical considerations and approach we are using to minimize configuration while enabling reliable, traceable builds integrated with our existing toolchain.

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Tracks

Monday, 5 November

Microservices / Serverless Patterns & Practices

Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking

Practical approaches using DevOps & Lean Thinking
JavaScript & Web Tech

Beyond JavaScript in the Browser. Exploring WebAssembly, Electron, & Modern Frameworks
Modern CS in the Real World

Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probabilistic programming
Modern Operating Systems

Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals

Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC

Tuesday, 6 November

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, & more
21st Century Languages

Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
Emerging Trends in Data Engineering

Showcasing DataEng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications.
Bare Knuckle Performance

Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
Socially Conscious Software

Building socially responsible software that protects users privacy & safety
Delivering on the Promise of Containers

Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices

Wednesday, 7 November

Applied AI & Machine Learning

Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more
Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems

More than just building software, building deployable production ready software
Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness

Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand.
Security: Lessons Attacking & Defending

Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
Future of Human Computer Interaction

IoT, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
Enterprise Languages

Workhorse languages found in modern enterprises. Expect Java, .NET, & Node in this track

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