Devops, SRE, TechOps, System Administration and the rest have a common goal: stability and reliability. We will discuss how optimizations inSRE, observability, consistency, and training are vital for enhacning speed and operational excellence at scale. We will discuss the history of the competencies of DevOps as well as how we can work toward increasing the pipeline of new entities in the field.
Track: Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Location: Bayview AB
Day of week: Tuesday
Track Host: John Willis
Founder @botchagalupe
John Willis is the Founder of Botchagalupe Technologies. Before this, John was the Vice President of Devops and Digital Practices at SJ Technologies the Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in March 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, John was the Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the Enstratius acquisition in May 2013. He has also held past executive roles at Opscode/Chef and Canonical/Ubuntu. John is the author of 7 IBM Redbooks and is co-author of the “Devops Handbook” along with authors Gene Kim and Jez Humble.
10:35am - 11:25am
Balancing Priorities: Revenue Generation vs. Revenue Protection
Does the delivery of new features routinely take precedence over fixing technical debt at your company? Revenue protection work is like a poster child for the objectionable, “not in my project” response from project managers. An important constituent when it comes to maintaining a prosperous business, revenue protection work always seems to take a back seat to feature driven requests - especially when work is managed by project versus product. This talk explores the benefits of managing products through the lens of a value stream to better expose risks, examine priorities and reduce dependencies.
Dominica DeGrandis, Director of Digital Transformation @Tasktop
11:50am - 12:40pm
The System of Profound Knowledge
Dr. Deming, the famous American who taught the Japanese after WWII and empowered them to become a manufacturing power-house in the decades to follow, latter to be brought back to the US as "LEAN", summarized his teachings at the end of his long life in four simple ideas known as the System of Profound Knowledge. This system looks remarkably modern and sets forth a pattern of thinking that we, as a society, are still trying to fully implement. Stop trying to imitate LEAN Practices and instead learn from the underlying ideas themselves to improve the way you learn, lead, and operate.
Ben Rockwood, VP, Production Engineering @packethost
2:55pm - 3:45pm
Incident Management in the Age of DevOps & SRE
Responding to failure is an organization's most important operations capability. Despite advances in Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps, how most organizations handle incidents hasn't changed all that much in the past 20 years. This talk will take a look at the techniques that high-performing operations organizations are using to finally transform how they identify, mobilize, and respond to incidents.
Damon Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer @Rundeck
4:10pm - 5:00pm
Mapping the Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems
Is it any accident that devops was born at the same time cloud computing and platform as a service were exploding in popularity? Technology, process, and culture necessarily evolve together. Wouldn’t it be great to anticipate these critical shifts and changes, to be sensitized to the coevolution of technology, process, and culture? That would be a huge advantage!
Wardley Maps are increasingly becoming a key practice in a lean thinker’s toolbox. The Wardley Mapping practice can be used to examine trends and options in context rather than falling victim to the tempting allure of buzzwords. That’s right, no more making your blockchain AI totally serverless through the digital transformation of modernized hybrid-clouds. This session will use Wardley Maps to examine the evolution of computing and explore potential futures. Attendees will leave ready and excited to start mapping!
Cat Swetel, Agile Methods Coach & Advocate for Woman in Tech
Tracks
Monday, 11 November
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Building & Scaling High-Performing Teams
To have a high-performing team, everybody on it has to feel and act like an owner. Organizational health and psychological safety are foundational underpinnings to support ownership.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Ethics, Regulation, Risk, and Compliance
With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty.
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Software Supply Chain
Life of a software artifact from commit to deployment. Security, observability and provenance of the software supply chain.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Hard-earned lessons from names you know on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.
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Languages of Infrastructure
This track explores languages being used to code the infrastructure. Expect practices on toolkits and languages like Cloudformation, Terraform, Python, Go, Rust, Erlang.
Tuesday, 12 November
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Modern Data Architectures
Today’s systems move huge volumes of data. Hear how places like LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber and more built their systems and learn from their mistakes.
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Microservices Patterns & Practices
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on managing and operating Microservices at scale.
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Pushing the Web Forward: JavaScript, Frameworks, Transpilers, and WebAssembly
JavaScript is the language of the web. Latest practices for JavaScript development in and how transpilers are affecting the way we work. We’ll also look at the work being done with WebAssembly.
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Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using DevOps and a lean approach to delivering software.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods & probabilistic programming.
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Socially Conscious Software
Power of leadership, Engineering Metrics and strategies for shaping the org for velocity.
Wednesday, 13 November
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Machine Learning for Developers
AI/ML is more approachable than ever. Discover how deep learning and ML is being used in practice. Topics include: TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch & more. No PhD required.
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Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed systems clustering.
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Evolving the JVM
The JVM continues to evolve. We’ll look at how things are evolving. Covering Kotlin, Clojure, Java, OpenJDK, and Graal. Expect polyglot, multi-VM, performance, and more.
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Optimizing Yourself: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC.
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Living on the Edge: The World of Edge Compute From Device to Infrastructure Edge
IOT/IIOT, Federated Learning, Application Gateways, Serverless, Kubernetes, WASM/WASI all at the edge? This track explores what’s being done at the modern edge.
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Trust, Safety & Security
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines.