DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015
2015-11-03..2015-11-05
San Francisco, United States
[DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, DevOps Enterprise Summit 2022]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Pain Is Over, If You Want It | Mike Bland | 34m |
Recounts how a grassroots push at Google makes automated testing a default: a GS policy of no changes without tests, continuous builds, coverage monitoring and… | ||
| (Re)building an Engineering Culture: DevOps at Target | Heather Mickman, Ross Clanton | 34m |
Hybrid bottoms-up and tops-down change drives a working platform: a 90+ API catalog serving 17 billion monthly API calls with more than 80 deployments per… | ||
| How DevOps is Enabling Lean Application Development | Carmen DeArdo | 30m |
Nationwide reports scaling from a handful to 200 agile teams handling 70% of work via agile, then hitting diminishing returns from wait states and tool… | ||
| Architecting for Continuous Delivery | Jez Humble | 34m |
Jez Humble, Author
DevOps and Continuous Delivery represent a new paradigm for IT service delivery that promises higher quality and stability as well as… | ||
| Systems for Innovation | Adrian Cockcroft | 32m |
Netflix uses a lean system: the freedom and responsibility culture deck becomes a screening filter (it gets millions of views) and the compensation design… | ||
| DevOps in the Enterprise: A Transformation Journey | Jody Mulkey | 28m |
Ticketmaster commits to re-architecting a 39‑year platform after the Live Nation merger, scales developers +230% while ops grow +12%, and moves from 2% to 100%… | ||
| The Cultural Battle To Remove Windows from Windows Server | Jeffrey Snover | 25m |
16-year engineering and cultural effort replaces GUI-first Windows Server management with automation and command-line tooling, shipping PowerShell… | ||
| Mindsets and Metrics and Mainframes... Oh My! | Courtney Kissler, Jason Josephy | 26m |
Nordstrom pursues a 20% cycle-time reduction across customer-facing teams using value stream mapping, coaching kata and continuous delivery practices. A… | ||
| Metrics that Matter | Mark Michaelis | 28m |
Argues that metrics reduce subjectivity and create predictability, claiming velocity stabilizes after three sprints for predictability (example: ~23 points)… | ||
| Creating High Velocity Organizations | Steve Spear | 46m |
Certain organizations learn so much faster that they outcompete peers: Toyota moves from 1/8 to 2x world productivity by 1968 and sells ~7 million hybrids… | ||
| Banking on Innovation & DevOps | Tapabrata "Topo" Pal | 33m |
Capital One describes moving from 48-hour builds and quarterly releases to builds in minutes and hundreds of commits per day, with deployments moving from… | ||
| Test Automation For Mainframe Applications | Rosalind Radcliffe | 31m |
z/OS can run on Intel Linux via RD&T so teams instantiate disposable zOS images, deploy data, run tests and tear them down without MIPS charges; unit testing… | ||
| Building an Enterprise DevOps Community | Pauly Comtois | 30m |
Builds a cross-company DevOps community across 10 business units at Hearst by combining practical rituals and tools: regular AMA sessions to surface fears… | ||
| DevOps Kaizen Practical Steps to Start & Sustain a Transformation | Damon Edwards | 26m |
Applies Kaizen to DevOps at enterprise scale with specific practices: track service-delivery metrics (lead time vs processing time, mean time to… | ||
| Its All About Feedback | Elisabeth Hendrickson | 35m |
Quality gets worse when long feedback latency lets speculation accumulate and QA work disincentivizes developer testing, so the concrete fix is to shorten and… | ||
| Security as Code A SecDevOps Use Case | Ed Bellis | 24m |
Kenna documents security policy as executable cookbooks (Chef) and auto-tests them in CI (CircleCI) while feeding alerts into Slack/ELK and PagerDuty; open… | ||
| Three Steps to Change: Lessons from Battling Bureaucracy | Paula Thrasher | 35m |
Fifteen years of federal work reduces to three actions: create desire, target specific workflow waste, and let teams own fixes. Example program goes from 32… | ||
| Accelerating Customer Experience Innovation Through DevOps | Chivas Nambiar | 27m |
Verizon restructures a sprawling CRM stack into a web‑first, service‑based platform using .NET, software‑defined infrastructure and automated pipelines… | ||
| DevOps Enterprise Closing Remarks | Gene Kim, Steve Brodie | 06m |
Announces that session videos will be available after roughly two weeks of transcoding, asks for up to five top obstacles emailed to help@itrevolution.com, and… | ||
| Breaking Traditional IT Paradigms to... | Ralph Loura, Olivier Jacques, Rafael Garcia | 31m |
HP IT restructures DevOps as a parallel program across a 300,000‑person company, starting with pilots and a self-authored manifesto, a DevOps Academy for… | ||
| Steve Bower interview at DOES15 | Steve Bower | 03m |
Cisco moves most unit tests into developers' hands to cut wait time, claiming faster feedback and fewer handoffs. QA retains responsibility for system-scale… | ||
| Ten (Hard-Won) Lessons of the DevOps Transition | Randy Shoup | 26m |
Ten concrete lessons on reorganizing teams for end-to-end ownership, replacing gatekeeper approvals with embedded tools, and treating internal platforms like… | ||
| “The Yahoo! Story” How Yahoo! Embraced Automated Testing to... | Neil Manvar | 32m |
Yahoo Mail replaces biweekly, manual whiteboard testing and a fragile Java Selenium/TestNG VM grid with a pull request build that enforces unit and functional… | ||
| Organizational Design Forum Report Out | Ross Clanton, Mark Peterson | 07m |
Satirical report enumerates concrete anti patterns and real examples from retail tech teams and a Portland workshop: it lists keeping functional silos and… | ||
| Intel’s Journey to Large Scale DevOps Transformation | Sherry Chang | 26m |
Intel shrinks an eight‑week path to production by building a Common Continuous Delivery Service and running communities, hackathons and an internal open‑source… | ||
| Rise of the Machines Security Automation at Twitter | Justin Collins | 26m |
Company faces an FTC order requiring a 20 year information security program after account compromises; by 2012 traffic hits ~300 million tweets/day and a tiny… | ||
| DevOps Enterprise Day 1 Opening Remarks | Gene Kim, Steve Brodie | 15m |
Conference opening states that DevOps delivers measurable business value: benchmarking across 20,000 organizations shows high performers deploy far more… | ||
| Prove it! The Last Mile for DevOps in Regulated Organizations | Bill Shinn | 30m |
Shows how regulated teams turn requirements into runnable proof: capture every API call with CloudTrail JSON → CloudWatch → Kinesis → ELK, index and keep… | ||
| Radical Ideas Enterprises Can Learn From The Cloud | Tom Limoncelli | 31m |
Argues enterprises get reliability by software not expensive hardware: Google moves error handling into software and buys factory-reject RAM for pennies… | ||
| Beyond the Culture Deck What You Don’t Already Know About Netflix | Mike McGarr | 26m |
Claims that Netflix runs on Freedom and responsibility with engineers owning services and pagers, using tools like Asgard then Spinnaker for AWS deployments… | ||
| DevOps and Innovation at USAA and IBM | Dibbe Edwards, Michael Bueche | 34m |
USAA describes cutting time to market from 158 to ~90 days with agile and now aims to drop releases from 28 to 7 days using layered fixes: a self-service test… | ||
| ITIL and DevOps Can Be Friends | Jan-Joost Bouwman, Ingrid Algra | 29m |
ING describes concrete steps to merge ITIL with DevOps: 500 dev teams, Scrum since 2011, Spotify model by 2015, and rolling out 30% sprint capacity reserved… | ||
| How Continuous Delivery and Lean Management Make your DevOps Amazeballs | Nicole Forsgren | 26m |
Research shows continuous delivery—built from test/deploy automation, CI, and version control for production artifacts—predicts better IT and business… | ||
| Immutable Awesomeness? | Joshua Corman, John Willis | 34m |
Argues that pairing containers with software supply‑chain practices reduces unplanned work by improving traceability and hygiene: shows apps average 106… | ||
| Visual Studio Online: The Inside Story from COTS to Cloud | Sam Guckenheimer | 59m |
A migration from Team Foundation Server to Visual Studio Online runs as a live SaaS with three-week sprints, Monday ringed deployments and feature flags… | ||
| Turning Around the Containership | Evelijn Van Leeuwen, Kris Buytaert | 30m |
Four-year transformation inside a bank documents concrete wins and failures: initial focus on the wrong teams and the wrong toolset slows progress, then teams… | ||
| DevOps for Telegraph Companies – Our Non-Unicorn Evolution | Charles Nelles | 29m |
Shared IT operations in a 160‑year‑old, highly regulated finance company automates deployments with CA Release Automation as a beachhead, cutting a specific… | ||
| Best Practices for Accelerating Continuous Testing | Marc Hornbeek | 30m |
Seven concrete practices: make tools topology-aware and available as RESTful microservices, orchestrate physical and virtual resources, use self‑healing test… | ||
| Metrics and Modeling – Helping Teams See How to Improve | Troy Magennis, Julia Wester | 26m |
Argues that simple, balanced dashboards beat vanity metrics and gives concrete examples: a public naughty list of developers with 10+ bugs leads to gaming and… | ||
| Adopting DevOps Practices for Systems of Record – An Experience Report | Mirco Hering | 23m |
Systems of record like Siebel and mainframe get treated like regular code: source extracted into Git, Jenkins used for CI, Selenium/OpenUI for UI tests, a… | ||
| The Shape of Uncertainty | Dominica DeGrandis | 23m |
Uses LeanKit and a Kanban Flow method to turn lead times into probabilities by plotting flow times and percentiles, not guesses. She shows a 10-item sample… | ||
| How Adobe Scaled DevOps in the Enterprise | Rohit Antao, John Pritchard, Toni Vanwinkle, Stuart Wong | 53m |
Rohit Antao, Partner, IT Function Transformation Leader, PwC
John Pritchard, Director, Engineering Service Platform, Adobe
Toni Vanwinkle, Senior Director… | ||
| DevOps Insured By Blue Shield of California | Michael Hrenko | 42m |
Blue Shield of California describes a Greenfield then Brownfield DevOps push that automates a full stack (WebSphere, Oracle, Red Hat on VMware) with Puppet… | ||
| Breaking the 2 Pizza Paradox with Platform Applications | Mark Rendell | 25m |
A team running 100–180 people supports tens of engagements with thousands of Git repos and tens of thousands of Jenkins jobs and builds a managed devops… | ||
| From Teams to Tribes:Creating a “One Team” Culture | Em Campbell-Pretty | 28m |
Claim: moving from isolated teams to a “tribe” raises trust, speed and retention by changing rituals and leadership behaviour. Implements small teams (7±2)… | ||
| Docker for Managers | John Willis | 29m |
Container tech provisions in hundreds of milliseconds instead of minutes, yielding 10x–40x density versus VMs and enabling immutable delivery with identical… | ||
| Conway & Taylor Meet the Strangler (v2.0) | Scott Prugh, Erica Morrison | 30m |
Company reduces release incidents from 201 (2013) to 18 (Aug) — a 90% reduction to 18 incidents — and shortens release cadence from 28 to 14 weeks. CI/CD and… | ||
| The Blameless Cloud: Bringing Actionable Retrospectives to Salesforce | J. Paul Reed, Kevina Finn-Braun | 31m |
Salesforce rewires incident learning by replacing a heavyweight Wednesday meeting with weekly service reliability review sessions, coaching cloud teams, and… | ||
| DevOps Transformations At National Instruments and... | Ernest Mueller | 34m |
Series of four real transformations: rescued a website that suffered 200 on-call pages/week and Friday-night big bang releases by automating restarts and… | ||
| The Art and Economics of Enterprise R&D Decision Making | David Rosen, Edward Pershwitz | 27m |
Huawei frames R&D as two decision types — what to build and how to build — and claims improving decisions at scale could yield tens to hundreds of millions in… | ||
| My Great Awakening: Top “Aha” Moments As Former Dev Manager | Cornelia Davis | 32m |
A monthlong rotation on the production ops team yields concrete practices and failures: a Sundance ticket spike reveals dropped logs that are scaled logging… | ||
| Getting Faster Answers at Yahoo Answers | Jim Stoneham | 29m |
Moves Yahoo Answers from monthly 4–6 week deploys to daily releases by rearchitecting in place: a MySQL read cache for 95% reads, a new data-access layer… | ||
| Learnings from a DevOps Organization in the Making | Vineet Banga, Jacob Johnson | 32m |
GE builds a hosted Predix platform on Cloud Foundry to let developers push services from commit to prod without VM or DNS work and the platform team enforces a… | ||
| Continuous Delivery at Cisco IT | Ramona Jackson, Aji Rajappan | 25m |
Cisco IT describes a 15‑month push to deliver Software Delivery as a Service (SDaaS) across ~80 services and 600+ applications using IaaS/PaaS foundations and… | ||
| Busting Silos & Red Tape: DevOps in Federal Government | Aaron Volkmann | 29m |
A Carnegie Mellon SEI team turns a prototype-turned-production mess into repeatable delivery: CI/CD runs on an internal network while production parity relied… | ||
| Launching MSN on Azure: A Story of the 76 Point Checklist | Eric Passmore | 24m |
MSN moves 450 million monthly users and ~18 billion pageviews to Azure using a 76 checklist items approach (pre-release 13, monitoring 29, deployment 11… | ||
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