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Track: Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking

Location: Ballroom BC

Day of week: Monday

Devops, SRE, TechOps, System Administration and the rest have a common goal toward stability, and reliability of deployment and operation of production applications. We’ll discuss how mechanization of SRE tasks, observability, consistency, and training are vital for speed and operational excellence in a scalable production environment. We’ll discuss the history of the competencies of DevOps as well as how we can work toward increasing the pipeline of new folks in the field.

Track Host: Jessica Kerr

Polyglot Functional Developer @atomist

Jessica Kerr (unique ID: @jessitron) develops development automation at Atomist. After a dozen years in Java, she branched out to Scala and Clojure and Ruby and Elm and more. Nowadays she works in TypeScript, on tools to help developers automate more of our own work -- DevOps is only the beginning! Jessica lives in St. Louis, MO with four humans and two felines. Her Pokémon Go trainer code is 5431 5140 6916.

10:35am - 11:25am

DevOps For The Database

Baron Schwartz, CTO @VividCortex

11:50am - 12:40pm

Service Ownership @Slack

As recently as 2017, developers at Slack didn’t carry a pager. They deployed to production over a hundred times a day, and a centralized operations team took the calls in the night. Most pages were not very actionable because they weren’t set up by the dev teams that knew their systems best. Heros and knowledge islands saved day over and over. Post-incident postmortems were poorly attended and did not encourage learning.     
Slowly, then quickly, all that changed. Slack moved to teams of empowered developers on-call, with embedded SREs, safer production deployments, and actionable alerts. Postmortems focus on learning, and meaningful analysis of incident patterns is done at all levels of the company.     
In this talk you’ll hear all about the bumps and scrapes, triumphs and pitfalls of our journey from a centralized ops team to development teams that own the full lifecycle of their systems. It wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t impossible. Hopefully, it will inspire you to try something radically different at your company too.

Holly Allen, Service Engineering @SlackHQ

1:40pm - 2:30pm

Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals

J. Paul Reed, Build/Release Engineering, DevOps, and Human Factors Consultant

2:55pm - 3:45pm

Full Cycle Developers @Netflix

Greg Burrell, Sr SRE @Netflix, member of the Edge Developer Productivity Team

4:10pm - 5:00pm

DevOps & Lean Thinking Panel

Jessica Kerr, Polyglot Functional Developer @atomist
Matt Stratton, DevOps Advocate @pagerduty
Bridget Kromhout, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate @Microsoft
J. Paul Reed, Build/Release Engineering, DevOps, and Human Factors Consultant
Greg Burrell, Sr SRE @Netflix, member of the Edge Developer Productivity Team
Holly Allen, Service Engineering @SlackHQ

5:25pm - 6:15pm

Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability

Bridget Kromhout, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate @Microsoft

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