devopsdays Amsterdam 2023
2023-06-21..2023-06-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[devopsdays Amsterdam 2020, devopsdays Amsterdam 2022, devopsdays Amsterdam 2023, devopsdays Amsterdam 2024, DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Learn Sociotechnical Systems The Hard Way | Andrew Clay Shafer | 28m |
Walks the history from 1950s British coal mines to modern serverless and argues shortwall vs longwall shows autonomous cross‑functional teams beat narrow task… | ||
| The Art of Turning Incidents into Opportunities | Busra Koken | 31m |
An SRE at Datadog describes accidentally upgrading a Mesos cluster that breaks scheduling, a production outage fixed in about one to two hours, and a response… | ||
| Security vs Dev Experience Threat … or Opportunity | Christoph Hartmann | 22m |
Argues that friction comes from tooling not people and shows a working open source CLI that runs live scans against container images, Terraform, GCP… | ||
| SOS, please someone help me! | Daniel Bodky | 05m |
Claims that shiny object syndrome causes decision paralysis and that the observability slice of the CNCF landscape contains 85 observability projects, of which… | ||
| Developing a pipeline is like raising chickens | Hans Broeckx | 05m |
Claim that a CI/CD pipeline maps to chicken farming with concrete numbers and practices: assume three build agents for parallel output because one hen yields… | ||
| Accessibility for everyone | Laura Kalbag | 05m |
Accessibility centers on disabled people who make up 1 in 5 of the population and can be temporary or permanent. Concrete fixes include sufficient color… | ||
| Planet Earth as our Stakeholder | Marjolein Pilon | 29m |
Asks teams whether the planet is a stakeholder, runs a planet retrospective and applies green software patterns and simple process changes like adding carbon… | ||
| DevOps Meditation, maybe | Daniel phrawzty Maher | 06m |
A four‑and‑a‑half minute session mixes a mock guided meditation with practical DevOps reality checks, using 4:30 guided meditation structure and counted… | ||
| Red Risk Experiment | John Willis | 32m |
A live reworking of the red bead experiment runs through 4,000 beads (3,200 white, 800 red) to show that random variation yields about ten defects per draw and… | ||
| Three value inhibiting dysfunctions of enterprise software development | Stefan Holdermans | 30m |
Large enterprises stall on three concrete dysfunctions: struggling with staffing — heavy reliance on contractors creates two-year contractor churn that leaks… | ||
| Circling back to the foundation from CALMS to KALMS | Thiago de Faria | 05m |
Argues for swapping the C in CALMS for KALMS to make kindness an explicit value, backed by concrete practices: blameless postmortems, joint ownership, active… | ||
| The Next Generation of IT Harnessing the Potential of Trainees | Iris de Haas | 25m |
ING runs six external trainees so far, five convert to internal hires and retention is 100% after the placement period with an average promotion every three… | ||
| How To Get Nothing Done | Ben Madley | 06m |
Advice: pick work immediately and never stop so tasks pile up, switch constantly and extend completion times; a 2009 Microsoft analysis finds only one third of… | ||
| Home Lab for fun & profit | Carlos Leon | 07m |
Built a €1,800–2,000 AMD desktop to replace a dying MacBook and turn it into a home lab that actually pays: boots Arch Linux for work (bash, tmux, Docker… | ||
| AKS unlighted, but what about Compliancy, cost and Multi ten | Dinant Paardenkooper, Jurgen Allewijn | 25m |
City of Amsterdam runs four AKS clusters with per-team subscriptions, per-team agent-pool multi-tenancy and one shared ACR; teams get a namespaced service… | ||
| Psychologically Safe Reliability Management | Lesley Cordero | 32m |
Argues that psychological safety is essential for reliability work and that persistent failures are the biggest threat, offering concrete practices: create… | ||
| Nijntje Doet DevOps | Jason Yee | 05m |
Light, performative set that mixes Dutch interludes with a few concrete notes about platform work: mentions platform devops, a Ninja design team, and building… | ||
| The common fallacies on platform building | Derik Evangelista, Winna Bridgewater | 26m |
Platform discussions focus on concrete tradeoffs not slogans: one company reports 30% faster delivery after a single platform team for hundreds of apps, but… | ||
| Giving for your own good How volunteering improves your career and well being | Ivan Milchev | 24m |
Volunteering to build the Postgraphy platform produces concrete returns: a live donation site handling €180,000 from 3,500+ donations and 3,000 benefactors, 18… | ||
| Alert Analytics | Monika Singh | 18m |
Cloudflare runs over 1,000 Prometheus servers across 285 PoPs and routes alerts into a pipeline that uses vector.dev pipeline to ingest webhooks and poll… | ||
| How we use Data to Ignite Action | Julie Starling | 24m |
Argues that probabilistic forecasting replaces wasteful estimates by using actual cycle time and flow metrics to trigger actions: collect 10 work items from… | ||
| Flying Blind Accessibility in Monitoring | Feu Mourek | 05m |
Claims that visual impairment affects 285 million people globally and that common color deficiencies (red/green and blue) break typical red/green alerting… | ||
| Stop Chasing Unicorns and Rainbows The Dangers of Survivorship Bias in Tech | Louella Creemers | 27m |
Argument: survivorship bias skews expectations by highlighting winners and hiding failures. Evidence: 9 out of 10 startups fail within five years and only 1%… | ||
| There are no soft skills making empathy actionable | Sharon Steed | 38m |
A LinkedIn training production initially fails when reading from a teleprompter with a full crew but succeeds after switching to a solo camera setup, resulting… | ||
| Aftermovie | 03m | |
Short recap of the event that proves the conference is about community not product demos: the aftermovie shows daily scenes of networking, sessions, and food… | ||
| Long live the imposter syndrome! | Julia Sullivan | 39m |
Claim: feeling like an imposter is normal and universal, not a minority problem; 99% of people prefer the discomfort of their comfort zone over change. Uses… | ||
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