DevOps Enterprise Summit Amsterdam 2023
2023-05-15..2023-05-17
Amsterdam, Netherlands
who it's for
transformation leads, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, security engineers, developer experience leads, distinguished engineers, executive individual contributors
topics
central CI/CD platform (GitLab); devops culture change and coaching; serverless-first (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge); multivariate testing and feature flags; shift-left security with infrastructure as code; sre embedding and service level objectives; finops platform architecture; inner source and engineering excellence; prompt engineering and ChatGPT workflows; incident response and zero-day vulnerability handling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps Practices Are Easy, Changing the Culture is the Tricky Part! | Sascha Schärich, Örs Cseresnyés | 22m |
Deutsche Telekom IT explains how cultural change, not practices, blocks DevOps at scale and shows concrete fixes: set up a central CI/CD hub (GitLab), a DevOps… | ||
| Strengthening the Engineering Culture / The Distinguished Engineer Program | Jelena Laketić | 32m |
Joins Thomson Reuters in March 2022 as the first Distinguished Engineer (DE) and launches a program in May 2022 that formalizes a hands‑on career path with… | ||
| Go Faster, Break Less: DevOps Transformation at HSBC | David Keane | 21m |
Describes a bankwide DevSecOps program that defines one clear metric set, automates controls and measures release frequency with PD PD PD Y across roughly… | ||
| Capability Diamond | Fernando Cornago, Thomas Gieling | 23m |
Adidas uses the Capability Diamond to map and choose where to invest or divest, turning hundreds of microservices into ~20–25 package capabilities so teams can… | ||
| Transformed! A Musical DevOps Journey | Forrest Brazeal | 32m |
Shows a Cloud Resume Challenge spec of 16 steps (IaC, CI/CD, serverless API, auth, multi-language) and a real build deployed at dsresume.com that lands a… | ||
| Global SRE – Creating Digital Magic | Jason Cox | 23m |
Shared SREs embed into product teams, define service levels (MTTR, dollars‑per‑minute) and build architectures that shift security left and enable high release… | ||
| Making it Stick - Rewiring Organisations for Outcomes & Continuous Change | Sam Yeats | 24m |
Argues that rewiring large orgs for outcomes works by creating a shared cadence: a quarterly business review implemented as a one‑page Confluence artifact that… | ||
| Getting Started with Multi-variant Testing | Gábor Csomák | 24m |
Team reintroduces user testing by wiring LaunchDarkly feature flags into the registration flow as a quick front-end proof of concept, serving full JSON banner… | ||
| This is Not Just Any Transformation; This is a Transformation | Richard Day, Lee Wilson | 22m |
Marks & Spencer describes a pragmatic migration: they build an Onyx front-end framework using Next.js and TypeScript, add a GraphQL layer, and move one product… | ||
| Making the Grade with Agile Transformation in Higher Education | Sophie Harrison | 20m |
University College London reorganizes IT into 40 standing teams across eight portfolios, replaces project funding with long‑term product funding, and makes… | ||
| The Role of an Executive Individual Contributor in Large Transformations | Rosalind Radcliffe | 22m |
An executive individual contributor leads a 2‑year internal move from one data center to four, consolidating thousands of individually managed systems… | ||
| Accelerating Towards Serverless-First with the Value Flywheel Effect | David Anderson | 33m |
Argues that a Serverless First mindset plus Wardley Mapping speeds modernization by aligning business metrics with tech choices, using AWS managed services… | ||
| DevOps @ Fidelity - Investing in Inner Source and Engineering Excellence | Tapabrata "Topo" Pal | 20m |
Fidelity documents a push to standardize pipelines, automate onboarding and embed security as continuous compliance, forbids any persisted production access so… | ||
| Making the Case for Change | Maya Leibman | 20m |
Twenty concrete tactics and outcomes: start small, measure with DORA metrics and set a North Star such as double deployment frequency, tie that to a business… | ||
| Swim Don’t Sink: Why Training Matters to a SRE / DevOps Practice | Jennifer Petoff | 23m |
Argues that systematic training yields measurable gains: Google’s model supports thousands of SREs organized outside product teams, uses the ADDIE design cycle… | ||
| 7 Pillars to Invest in Developer Experience | Leo Kraan | 25m |
Booking.com defines seven concrete pillars for Developer Experience and shows what changed when those pillars guide action: a 60‑person DevEx team, a common… | ||
| The Path to Scaling a Digital Enterprise | Malte Ubl, Mayank Badola | 28m |
A news site moves from a crashing WordPress monolith to Next.js on Vercel, decouples publishing from presentation, and uses ISR, edge cache and a publish-event… | ||
| The New Era of Software Liability | Stephen Magill | 20m |
Automakers’ ignition-switch defect triggers 30 million recalls, $900M in fines, $600M+ in settlements as an analogy for software; regulators now push the same… | ||
| Architecting an Optimal FinOps Platform | Ajay Chankramath | 31m |
Claims a platform-first FinOps blueprint that moves beyond reports to automated remediation, showing typical orgs waste ~30% of cloud spend and that… | ||
| DevOps Insights for the Executable Digital Twin | Bernhard Sputh, Roland Pastorino | 26m |
Built an executable digital twin platform that runs simulation models alongside physical test benches in real time, started a DevOps program in 2018, and now… | ||
| Wrong Fit, Right Fit | André Martin | 23m |
Claims that $7.8 trillion in productivity is lost to disengagement and that 30% of hires quit within three months (with ~50% still job-seeking) come from a… | ||
| Dare to Do - Multi-disciplinary Digital Ecosystem and DevOps | Dinkar Gupta, Marcelo Ancelmo | 38m |
KPMG Switzerland rebrands IT as Digital Business Technology and pursues an identity-driven shift: product-oriented teams (multidisciplinary “product… | ||
| Our Journey to Shift-left Security with Infrastructure as Code | Romina Druta | 22m |
Audit of 22 Visma projects across GCP, AWS and Azure evaluates three IaC scanners (2 commercial, 1 open source) using ease of install, docs, interoperability… | ||
| DevOps in Regulated Industries: What to do when Internal Audit says ‘No!’ | Sara Steiert, Laura Schneider | 22m |
A study of 100+ cases shows adopters reporting a 20–25% revenue lift year‑on‑year when BizDevXOps is fully in place. The talk lays out three organizational… | ||
| Paving a Secure Road | Simon Skelton, Chris Rutter | 23m |
John Lewis & Partners moves from a monolith to 100 digital services and 7,000 deployments per year while cutting risk-assessment time by about 50%. Platform… | ||
| Organizing for Outcomes | Jon Smart | 28m |
Every organisation is currently delivering exactly the results its incentives and structure produce, so changing labels alone fails; top-down one‑size… | ||
| AI, Make It So - A Dive into the Universe of Prompt Engineering | Patrick Debois | 22m |
Generative tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT move from autocomplete to running code, plugins and web access, plus a ChatGPT code interpreter that executes… | ||
| The Agile Way to Add Sec, Dev & Ops into Waterfall | Xander Heemskerk | 33m |
Philips keeps a V‑model medical SDLC but adds targeted agility: automated SCA in CI/CD and an SBOM repository that lets teams trace vulnerable libraries fast… | ||
| Why DevOps is Like Firefighting at Sea | Danny Higler | 21m |
October 1993 a naval frigate hits a ventilation alarm and a small bearing overheat causes smoke; two crew in breathing apparatus and guided by a thermal camera… | ||
| Generative Value Streams: When Code is not a Constraint | Mik Kersten | 20m |
Claim: generative AI removes coding as the delivery constraint and delivers productivity far larger than open source. Evidence: code agents like GitHub Copilot… | ||
| Cybersecurity During Dark Times | George Proorocu, Mihai Roman | 27m |
Banks show a live DeepFake demo built from a single photo that can generate realtime audio/video to socially engineer a senior accountant into a €2M transfer… | ||
| How We Battled the Log4j Zero Day Vulnerability | Friso Schutte | 28m |
SurePay already runs 4 billion checks since 2017 with 80–83% matches, 12% close matches and 5% no matches, cutting misdirected payments by 67%. The incident… | ||
| DevOps Across a Largely Outsourced IT Ecosystem | Jagpal Jheeta | 22m |
FCA runs front‑office tech with roughly 80% outsourced staff (about 100 internal and 500 partner people) and is fully cloud/SaaS; a 2013 rush to deliver… | ||
| We Are ALL DevOps YouTubers Now | Olivier Jacques, Claude Ampigny | 30m |
Claim: short, live videos let DevOps leaders influence without authority. Workflow uses OBS for live mixing, PowerPoint + chroma key for transparent… | ||
| The Operationalism of DevSecOps | John Willis | 27m |
Argues that applying Bridgman/Deming operationalism fixes fuzzy DevSecOps metrics by forcing criteria, test, decision definitions; demonstrates using control… | ||
| ChatGPT Ignites | Stephen Magill, Ivan Krnic, Johannes Nicolai, Mitun Zavery | 27m |
Reported field results show 5x productivity gains at a company using ChatGPT across code generation, support and ideation; Sonatype researchers trace live… | ||
| From Telco to Techco: Striking a Balance Between Security, Innovation, and Productivity | Henry Tze, Stefania Chaplin | 31m |
Company migrates telco ops onto GCP with GitLab, Vault and OCTA, onboarding 40,000 users and supporting 13 departments from a 30-person security team. Core… | ||
| How a Culture of Freedom and Autonomy Became a Success Factor in Our DevOps Journey | David Rutter, Ronnie Hilmersson | 25m |
WirelessCar describes a concrete DevOps path: cloud adoption in 2014, Dev and Ops merge in 2016, SAFe flavor and crews for team development and devops… | ||
| Breaking the Trenches: Nurturing a Continuous Improvement Culture in DevOps | Bernie van Welt, Irene de Kok | 28m |
Four DevOps teams serving 20 customers stop burning out by mapping end-to-end processes to find true bottlenecks, running focused mitigation workshops… | ||
| Creating Conditions for the Enterprise’s Distributed Intelligence to Achieve Unparalleled Results | Gene Kim, Steven J. Spear | 23m |
Argues that changing work conditions, not people, drives performance using concrete vignettes: a hospital ED where 80% of patients are seen and sent home after… | ||
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