devopsdays Amsterdam 2020
2020-07-09
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[devopsdays Amsterdam 2020, devopsdays Amsterdam 2022, devopsdays Amsterdam 2023, devopsdays Amsterdam 2024, DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025]
who it's for
engineering managers, devops engineers, security engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, product managers, business leaders
topics
CI/CD pipelines as a service; trunk-based builds and gitflow pitfalls; Kubernetes on GKE deployments; infrastructure as code with Terraform/ARM; secret management with Hashicorp Vault; dependabot and CodeQL scanning; locked-down developer environments (VS Code Spaces); GAEN exposure notification analysis; product-team funding and outcomes; security spikes and security champions; automated credential rotation and policy; low-code rapid prototyping (Power Apps, AppSheet)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Why Change Matters Now More Than Ever | Michael Ducy | 41m |
2020 forces urgent choices: COVID lockdowns expose that digital transformation often amplifies privilege while failing basic services — 40 million people lost… | ||
| From Waterfall to Agile | Abel Wang | 37m |
Microsoft shifts from 3-year releases to 3-week releases, running Azure DevOps Services (Azure Boards, Pipelines, Repos, Test Plans, Artifacts) as its single… | ||
| Securing Your DevOps Transformation | April Edwards | 25m |
Organizations get 95% of cloud breaches from human configuration mistakes and 85% of defects are introduced in code, so the talk shows concrete fixes: use… | ||
| BizDevOps | Henk van der Schuur | 24m |
Argues that DevOps must extend into business engagement by embedding business, development and ops together to avoid lost requirements and finger pointing… | ||
| Moving from Project to Product | Edward Pearson | 25m |
Organizations fail by front‑loading decisions, funding year‑ahead projects and rewarding handoffs; only 8% of companies expect to survive that way. Shift to… | ||
| COVID-19 Apps: Public Health or Hype? | Melanie Rieback | 29m |
Worked examples: audits and crypto testing on national apps including the Dutch CoronaMelder, analysis of GAEN (Google Apple Exposure Notifications) and server… | ||
| 5 ways to screw up your DevOps Transformation | Dave van Herpen | 29m |
Five concrete failure modes and how they play out: naming the program DevOps creates cargo‑culting around tools like Kubernetes and CI/CD; using a rigid… | ||
| Kubernetes won’t save you | Lian Li | 28m |
Argues that Kubernetes is mainstream but not a silver bullet, and that failed cloud moves are usually cultural not technical. Describes building a microservice… | ||
| Can you keep a secret? | Sarah Polan | 25m |
Demo shows a misconfigured Hashicorp Vault setup where a Kubernetes service account uses its JWT to get a Vault client token and an overly broad policy… | ||
| DevOps Journey at ABN AMRO | João Rosa | 17m |
ABN AMRO describes a DevOps journey that restructures delivery around a Grid with one or more service teams, introduces a security option plan and a CDI Vision… | ||
| Secure it yourself | Daphne Ma | 22m |
ABN AMRO embeds security into DevOps by requiring mandatory security spikes for engineers, running a Confluence playbook that links tasks to Jira, and staffing… | ||
| Business-IT relationship therapy | Mark Smalley | 26m |
Summary of findings from 21 workshops in 16 countries with over 500 participants: business-side groups ask for outcomes not solutions and must own risk… | ||
| Engineering under the watchful eyes of hackers | Karen Sijbrandij | 22m |
HackerOne protects a platform used by a community of ~700,000 hackers and that has paid out over $100M in bounties by embedding over 25 concrete methods into… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Nathen Harvey | 27m |
Demonstrates the Google devops quick check at cloud.google.com/devops and urges teams to answer its four DORA-style questions individually so results aren’t… | ||
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