DevOpsDays Boston 2018
2018-09-24..2018-09-25
Boston, United States
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who it's for
devops engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, infrastructure engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, data engineers
topics
site reliability for serverless; Vault at scale; AWS account cryptojack response; centralizing Kubernetes operations; container operations and tooling; Jenkins provisioning and scaling; sensory friendly monitoring and alerting; progressive performance testing; feature management and flags; Layer 7 proxy and API gateways; privacy and data protection; surviving microservices architectures
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps For Data Teams | Tobias Macey | 30m |
Says that data scientists spend 80% of their time on collection and cleaning and that adopting DevOps practices reduces that overhead; shows concrete tooling… | ||
| Craft as in Beer: The Value of Community | Aaron Aldrich | 25m |
Argues that deliberate community building — meetups, shared tooling, partial open-sourcing and local philanthropy — produces measurable outcomes: Linux runs on… | ||
| Can you keep a secret? or Privacy in the Digital Age | Jane Prusakova | 23m |
Argues that surveillance as a business model drives design and gives concrete examples: Amazon Echo and Samsung TVs record ambient audio, the My Friend Cayla… | ||
| Lessons Learned from the Tech Community's... | Yulan Lin, Neeraj Tandon | 28m |
Organizers turn a hacked Google spreadsheet into a documented API backed by Postgres and a quick Ruby on Rails app after 130 simultaneous editors max out the… | ||
| Pick any Three: Good, Fast, and Safe. DevOps from Scratch | Pete Cheslock | 28m |
Argues teams get all three — good, fast, safe — by building concrete systems: a push-button deploy pipeline using Jenkins, Debian packages and apt repos… | ||
| Princess Leia and open source... | David Danzilio | 27m |
Claims that ~70% of people experience the imposter phenomenon and that contributing to open source is a practical cure: joining the Puppet ecosystem… | ||
| KEYNOTE: How to be happy being average | Katy Farmer | 25m |
Argues that big-company DevOps practices must be pared down to concrete steps for mid-size apps: instrumented a Rails app with in flux to get DB metrics and… | ||
| Anatomy of an AWS Account Cryptojack | Anton Gurov | 27m |
One CHT customer’s AWS development account gets hijacked and generates about $40k in EC2 charges as roughly 100 top-end Windows instances run at 100% CPU for… | ||
| Sensory Friendly Monitoring: Keeping the Noise Down | Quintessence Anx | 27m |
A startup-sized engineering org (~15-person team) chronicles a noisy monitoring stack that leads people to mute alerts, costing ~25 minutes of focused work per… | ||
| Site Reliability in the Serverless Age | Erik Peterson | 27m |
Defines serverless by concrete tradeoffs: AWS Lambda and other managed services reduce ops but introduce hidden limits and costs, for example Lambda has no… | ||
| Vault At Scale | Matt Surabian | 27m |
Manages 25 production environments, over 6,000 containerized applications and 12 geographically distributed HA Vault clusters across multiple clouds, using an… | ||
| Why we provisioned 37 Jenkins servers... | Alicia Davis | 27m |
A platform team provisions 37 Jenkins servers (one per team/environment) plus Artifactory and a ServiceNow-integrated portal, automates VM provisioning, and… | ||
| Tinkertoys, microservices, and feature management... | Heidi Waterhouse | 27m |
Claims: use feature flags to make containers stable and presentation dynamic, and to flip features on/off for cheap experiments; test channels and user flows… | ||
| The rise of Layer 7, microservices, and the proxy war... | Flynn | 29m |
History moves from smart RPC libraries to sidecar proxies (smartstack 2013) to Envoy (2016) and fast follow from NGINX and HAProxy; Datawire picks Envoy as the… | ||
| Everything Is A Product... | Matt Stratton | 30m |
Argues that internal tech offerings are actual products and shows concrete practices: treat service desk, software delivery pipeline and infrastructure as code… | ||
| Infrastructure in the New World of Containers... | Austen Novis | 27m |
Compares concrete options: Self managed kubernetes on the cloud, Amazon’s ECS and Fargate, Google’s GKE and orchestration alternatives (Docker Swarm, Nomad)… | ||
| Centralizing Kubernetes and Container Operations | Oleg Chunikhin | 33m |
A concrete operations layer emerges: a central control plane built from open source pieces (Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, registry and snapshot tooling)… | ||
| KEYNOTE: Beyond Burnout | James Meickle | 46m |
Keynote "Beyond Burnout" claims workplaces must drop sanity as a hiring requirement and uses concrete tools — Americans with Disabilities Act guidance, EEOC… | ||
| Change Management for Humans | Tiffany Longworth | 27m |
Describes using the ADKAR model to roll out practical changes: run stakeholder interviews, lead with the emotional tigers vs puppies case for urgency, build a… | ||
| Sustaining Engineering - life after devops? | Timothy Bonci | 26m |
Argues for a persistent sustaining engineering team that takes ownership of live services and handles incidents, long-term architecture, backups, DR, instance… | ||
| Expertise vs Experts | Yegor Bugayenko | 31m |
Claims that knowledge must live in artifacts not heads and reports a practice that converts experts into expertise providers: 100 people across 25 projects run… | ||
| Progressive Testing to Meet the Performance Imperative | Paul Bruce | 29m |
Claims that baking performance criteria into stories cuts production problems by about half as many problems, shows tooling used end to end with concrete wins… | ||
| How 'Up & Running' Culture is... | Sarah Zelechoski | 27m |
Claim: the prevalence of “easy start” pieces like up and running guides for Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and AWS actively lowers how non‑engineers value deep… | ||
| Surviving in a Microservices Environment | Steve Pember | 28m |
Checklist of concrete outcomes and tools: centralized logging is nonnegotiable—ELK self‑hosted fills disks so the team switches to Loggly and keeps logs… | ||
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