DevOpsDays Boston 2017
2017-09-18..2017-09-19
Boston, United States
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who it's for
site reliability engineers, devops engineers, platform engineers, kubernetes operators, engineering managers, security engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
continuous delivery pipeline rollout; error budgets and service SLAs; blameless postmortems practice; incident commander role and runbooks; Kubernetes manifests and Deployments; canary deployments and rolling updates; service mesh with Envoy and Ambassador; telepresence local-to-cluster debugging; secrets management without Vault; serverless Lambda limits and pitfalls; developer-first workflows on Kubernetes; DevSecOps pipeline automation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| KEYNOTE: Settlers of DevOps... | Rob Cummings | 26m |
Argues that Simon Wardley’s pioneers settlers town planners model lets large orgs achieve velocity by a theft based pull model rather than mandates, showing a… | ||
| There is No Root Cause... | Matthew Boeckman | 30m |
Argues that outages rarely have a single cause and proposes replacing RCA with the "can even" framework (four quadrants: simple complicated complex chaotic)… | ||
| SRE: Lessons from a Parallel Universe | David N. Blank-Edelman | 13m |
Explains concrete SRE practices: adopt service SLAs and error budgets and gate releases when budgets are exhausted; create a common staffing pool and cap… | ||
| Lost Art of Troubleshooting | Leon Fayer | 38m |
Cloud’s “destroy and rebuild” fails for production incidents so the talk argues for concrete troubleshooting: replicate isolate understand fix rather than… | ||
| Don’t be a bystander, be an Incident Commander! | Rachael Byrne | 33m |
Claims that non-technical people can reliably serve as Incident Commanders, with success at PagerDuty and open-sourced runbooks at response.pagerduty.com… | ||
| With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility... | Michael Sacks | 31m |
Argues that everyday apps become dozens of Skinner boxes, cites variable reinforcement as the mechanism, and points to concrete data: Deloitte finds 46 checks… | ||
| Crayons, Glue, and Stickers | Adam Kaufman | 35m |
A concrete playbook emerges: pick a daily-relevant GitLab seed, host a public Slack forum that supports threading and notifications, and write self-service… | ||
| Your Emotional API | John Sawers | 38m |
Claims that emotions behave like an emotional API with hardwired endpoints that get overloaded by legacy aliases and that rewriting those aliases improves work… | ||
| Real-World Kubernetes For DevOps | Phil Lombardi | 57m |
Explains how to go from images to running services with concrete recipes: writes a Kubernetes manifest, wires Docker images into Deployments and Services, and… | ||
| Terrible Ideas In Lambda | Corey Quinn | 30m |
Calls out concrete limits and outcomes: Lambda fails for big stateful bundles above 75 MB, times out at 500 seconds, and can produce explosive concurrency (one… | ||
| Iterative Security... | Tom McLaughlin | 33m |
Claims a practical path from bad to better for secrets management using lightweight tools not full Vault and gives timeboxed actions that actually get done… | ||
| How to make a Unicorn... | Franklin Mosley | 31m |
Claim: demand outstrips supply with 3.5 million unfilled jobs by 2021 and attacks still hit web apps so 40% of data breaches stem from web applications… | ||
| Open Sourcing Your Infrastructure | Tobias Macey | 27m |
Argues for releasing production configuration and reference implementations instead of abstract examples, citing open-sourcing most department infra while… | ||
| Why You Need to Stop Using 'THE' Staging Server | Chloe Condon | 36m |
Argument: stop treating a single shared staging server as the first real test. The concrete claim is to spin up one-off pre-staging environments per feature… | ||
| Service Mesh: What, Why, And How? | Flynn | 53m |
Claims that a service mesh provides application‑level resilience, observability, and security, and then shows it working: an Envoy sidecar mesh managed by… | ||
| Why your next QA job might be in Ops | Ed Rousseau | 29m |
Argument: traditional manual QA roles are disappearing as delivery pipelines and infrastructure become code and automation eats rote checks. The talk claims… | ||
| Developer-first Workflows on Kubernetes | Richard Li | 42m |
Claims a developer-first workflow that makes teams self-sufficient by combining Docker, Kubernetes, Envoy with simple scripts and CI/CD. Provides concrete… | ||
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