DevOps Days Toronto 2019
2019-05-29..2019-05-30
Toronto, Canada
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Drafting Success | Emily Freeman | 26m |
Claims that writing a book mirrors building software and maps its emotions onto the Gartner hype cycle, showing concrete phases: peak of inflated expectations… | ||
| How to Have an Operational Incident | Courtney Eckhardt | 20m |
Company adapts the National Incident Management System to define emergencies as customer-facing outages, uses a Slack bot \/pd page to summon an incident… | ||
| Short Cuts & Scenic Routes | Matthew Churn, Monti Ghai | 25m |
Gartner predicts 75% of DevOps initiatives fail by 2022, and Genesys (5,000+ employees) describes concrete fixes: build immutable artifacts (base images), use… | ||
| Just in Time Infrastructure | Austen Novis | 22m |
A data science platform is built by a team of five that ties application code and infrastructure code together, using a Python-based Particle Cloud Framework… | ||
| My Favourite Errors | Hany Fahim | 28m |
Starts with concrete diagnostics: use ping FQDN to catch expired domains, run traceroute loop between .56 and .51 to find TTL-exceeded routing loops, and… | ||
| Continuous Integration Testing | David Stanke | 31m |
Explains concrete CI integration options and tradeoffs: use docker‑compose with Cloud Build for fast ephemeral builds but lower fidelity; use a shared GKE… | ||
| Tales From the Serverless | Greg Szabo | 49m |
Migrates a $20/month Linode site to a serverless stack using AWS Lambda, S3 + CloudFront + ACM + Route 53 and DynamoDB, deployed from GitHub via Terraform and… | ||
| Making Connections Visible | Dominica DeGrandis | 29m |
Argues that visibility into integration points fixes hidden work and long lead times, showing complexity forces specialization which then raises coordination… | ||
| Inner Source | Wasim Hossain | 28m |
Company applies open-source practices internally to tame growth from ~60 to 435 people, creating a public reference architecture wiki and a shared global… | ||
| Sensory Friendly Monitoring | Quintessence Anx | 19m |
Explains concrete practices for quieting alert noise: categorize alerts by role, route infra alerts to PagerDuty, keep noisy tools out of general Slack… | ||
| Toil and Trouble | Bozhidar Lenchov, Jesse Malone | 28m |
Defines toil using Google SRE criteria (repetitive, manual, no enduring value, tactical) and shows concrete tooling and outcomes: platform runs on BOSH and… | ||
| Journey to the Promised Land | Jacquelyne Grindrod | 22m |
A concrete argument for planning operational work alongside features: a single typo once cost AWS $150M and downtime averages $5,600 per minute, so aiming for… | ||
| Containerizing Legacy Applications | Andrew Kirkpatrick | 46m |
Eight demos containerize a file‑backed PHP forum, moving from SQLite to MySQL, Docker Compose to Swarm and then Kubernetes with Helm, reusing existing… | ||
| Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure+Terraform | Jason Harley | 53m |
Live demo uses Terraform 0.12 to provision AWS: it looks up an Ubuntu AMI, creates a security group, spins up a t2.small EC2, then replaces the default VPC… | ||
| Slackbot Development Serverless Framework | Purvi Kanal | 04m |
Shows how to replace a local Node server and SSH-managed box with a Serverless workflow that deploys a Slack bot in minutes, using Serverless Framework with… | ||
| PagerDuty DevOps Service Ownership | Lilia Gutnik | 05m |
PagerDuty applies three Zen rules to service ownership: start where you are, evolve constantly, fail often. Concrete changes include building a reliable index… | ||
| Delivery-Transformation DevOps-Pipeline | Chaiti Banerjee | 05m |
Describes building an enterprise delivery pipeline (EDP) that moves CI/CD from dev to prod, onboarding about 16 applications with 5 already in production, and… | ||
| Scaling an Engineering Department | Mark Hopson | 05m |
An internal Heroku-like dashboard called Prime Radiant provides a self-serve dashboard that lets teams create and operate services and Kafka topics without… | ||
| Feedback Week | Denise Yu | 05m |
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Denise Yu, Senior Software Engineer, Pivotal
Feedback Week, An Experiment In Empathetic… | ||
| Preventative+Detective Control for Security | Zach Koncir | 04m |
Advocates a concrete balance: use pipeline-driven preventative controls for below-the-line fundamentals (SDN, routing, IAM) so misconfigured S3 buckets and… | ||
| Slacking Like a Boss | Max Timchenko | 05m |
Turn off all notifications and check Slack five minutes before meetings or between tasks so deep work stays uninterrupted; send true urgencies via phone… | ||
| Kubernetes Hype - Do you really need it? | Renata Rocha | 04m |
Kubernetes sees widespread hype but many teams don’t need it: Google open-sourced Kubernetes in 2014 and it scales for massive, cloud‑native fleets, yet… | ||
| Breaking Hero Behaviour | Chris Trotter | 05m |
Builds a quick prototype pipeline to replace legacy sneakernet deploys and shows it still runs years later as the company’s only gateway to production… | ||
| Continuous Stability Engineering | Suzan Mahboob | 05m |
Explains a four-step practice: define steady state, hypothesize how injected failures change it, run controlled experiments starting in lower environments, and… | ||
| On-Call in a World Full of Toil | Jay Gordon | 05m |
Ten years on call leads to a simple claim: most wakeups are manual, repetitive, automatable work that drains teams. Definition borrows Google SRE: toil is… | ||
| Recap | 03m | |
Argues that treating errors as data speeds recovery: technicians first ask what the error is and use the message to pinpoint the subsystem, cutting mean time… | ||
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