DevOpsDays Boston 2019
2019-09-23..2019-09-24
Boston, United States
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who it's for
devops engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, backend developers
topics
CI/CD deployment pipeline; Kubernetes operators for stateful apps; containerizing legacy applications; serverless mindset for teams; automating security in DevOps; database bottleneck in DevOps; knowledge base architecture; test automation practices; chaotic engineering readiness; healthy on-call culture; developer experience improvements; infrastructure as data
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| All Tech is Debt | Dave Stanke | 24m |
Claim: all software is liability from the moment it ships, vulnerable and already out of date, and attempts to live debt free lose to change and users… | ||
| DevOps for the Startup | Doran Smestad | 25m |
Startup adopts infrastructure-as-code with terraform, runs CI in Bitbucket Cloud, and keeps master synonymous with production while delaying automated deploys… | ||
| A Monolith, a Microservices, and a Function Walk into a Bar | Ian Crosby | 33m |
Claims that no single architecture is ideal and that incremental evolution matters and then shows a concrete pipeline: a missing‑people image platform built as… | ||
| Imposter Syndrome Ain't Just a River in Egypt | Jesse Butler | 32m |
A self taught engineer recounts concrete beats: wrote four drivers shipping in Solaris, built a kernel test service to allocate hardware and run tests, and… | ||
| The Test Automation Firehose | Thomas Haver | 40m |
Argues for targeted automation: prioritize unit tests, then service, then UI, score candidates with an automation score (0–100) and use a checklist for… | ||
| Building a full CI/CD deployment pipeline | Richard Boyd | 01h 05m |
Starts from an empty repo and actually builds a working CI/CD pipeline for a serverless app using CloudFormation to create resources, SAM CLI to build/package… | ||
| Are you including...? | Taylor Anne Snook, JoAnn Becker | 34m |
Claims a conservative one in seven people have disabilities and demonstrates concrete failures: a TripAdvisor demo exposes 339 links, no form fields detected… | ||
| Let's Get Ready for Chaotic Engineering | Suzan Mahboob | 25m |
Argues that chaotic engineering only works after deliberate prep: map processes, prioritize system issues into standalone projects, define a steady state and… | ||
| Lightning Talk from Pete Cheslock | Pete Cheslock | 06m |
A LinkedIn anecdote about a late candidate who was smoking meat becomes a measurable social experiment: Slack edits and a double‑spaced post go viral… | ||
| Lightning Talk from Jirawat Uttayaya | Jirawat Uttayaya | 05m |
Five books get rapid, actionable claims: Peopleware argues Open Spaces sucks and recommends voluntary communal areas; Drive pushes Autonomy, mastery, purpose… | ||
| Lightning Talk from Jason Malstrom | Jason Malstrom | 04m |
Built a self‑service pipeline that spins up services into Kubernetes with attached RDS and S3 storage, wired through existing tooling. Automation uses JSON net… | ||
| Lightning Talk from Geri Jennings | Geri Jennings | 05m |
Argues developers can stop thinking about secrets by treating app credentials like user passwords and using password-manager-like tooling that injects secrets… | ||
| Lightning Talk from Brian Kelly | Brian Kelly | 06m |
A concrete claim: name the policy sustainable development and adopt three practices — managers and employees collectively define team expectations, write them… | ||
| Automating Stateful Apps with Kubernetes Operators | Jan Kleinert | 24m |
Shows an actual operator deployed: create CRD, deploy an etcd operator, instantiate an etcd cluster size 3 running version 3.1.0, verify with etcdctl put/get… | ||
| FOMO? Take Control of Your Career and Life! | David Fredricks | 26m |
Claims that a personal PDP actually stops FOMO by restoring control and preventing burnout, and lays out a concrete method: self-assess with DiSC/Myers‑Briggs… | ||
| Secure Your Logs Down to the Root | Quintessence Anx | 25m |
Includes a concrete description of forward-secure sealing and why per-interval keys prevent retroactive tampering, explains redaction/tokenization with… | ||
| Architecting a Better Knowledge Base | Joseph D. Marhee | 21m |
A process that turns raw interactions into repeatable outcomes: a 3-person support team services thousands of customers, builds an internal tracking tool to… | ||
| Growing a Learning Organization | Joel Tosi | 42m |
Argues that dojos — multiweek spaces where whole teams learn by building real features — beat one-off classes, with concrete practices: two-day sprints… | ||
| Creating a Culture of Inclusion | Jeremy Hayes | 20m |
Conference talk states concrete claims and steps: cites 66% of job seekers consider diversity important and that one to five adults in the U.S. experience… | ||
| Cooperative Economics for Engineers | James Meickle | 28m |
Claim: tech workers share more practical incentives with historical cooperatives and pirates than with managerial hierarchies. The talk traces concrete… | ||
| Apps, Stacks, and Frameworks | Angel Rivera | 24m |
A team replaces relational hacks with MongoDB to match a JSON model, deploys a five‑node cluster, and ships quickly; it works initially but three months later… | ||
| Infrastructure As Data | Tobias Macey | 30m |
Argues for treating infrastructure as data not just code and shows concrete results: uses Terraform Salt Stack Vault RDS and RabbitMQ, retrofits a domain model… | ||
| Seeing RED | Dave McAllister | 30m |
RED claims that monitoring focused on RED (Rates, Errors, Duration) plus logs and traces finds root causes faster; it recommends Prometheus/APM metrics… | ||
| How to Build a Healthy On-call Culture | Serhat Can | 31m |
Shows concrete wins and failures: an Elasticsearch incident that required disabling a cluster and a 2:00 a.m. data fix, survey data linking on-call to cortisol… | ||
| Building Meaningful Network Connections | Michael Miles | 25m |
Conference material breaks down networking into eight repeatable steps and three phases: prep, engagement, connection. Actionable points include set a single… | ||
| Developing Devopsers | Jonathan Maltz | 27m |
Claims a repeatable onboarding recipe: write an 90 day written plan, teach concrete skills (Terraform, Django, CI, Kubernetes), and script the first two weeks… | ||
| Double, Double, Toil and Trouble! | John Esser | 26m |
Claims concrete operational rules: an SRE model that enforces a 50% toil cap so half of engineers time is spent automating, clear SLIs and SLOs that feed SLAs… | ||
| Applying the Serverless Mindset to Any Tech Stack | Ben Kehoe | 28m |
Claim: serverless is a mindset not a specific runtime, and it applies inside any constraint. Uses AWS Lambda and ~30 AWS services with no VMs or containers… | ||
| Containerizing legacy applications | Andrew Kirkpatrick | 30m |
Legacy PHP forum (MyBB/phpBB style) is containerized using Docker Compose, Docker Swarm and eventually Kubernetes with Helm, moving config files into volumes… | ||
| DevOps and the Database Bottleneck | Dan Zentgraf | 27m |
Databases create a delivery bottleneck and the concrete routes out are automation and process, not buzzwords. The talk contrasts migration-based (change-first… | ||
| Built With Love - Why Developer Experience Matters | Arthur Maltson | 32m |
Claims that better developer experience saves money, mental energy and morale and offers concrete fixes: replace Pair Up with a CLI-first tool (Mob Up) that… | ||
| DevSecOps - Automating Security in DevOps | Anand Tiwari | 01h 18m |
A ready-to-run 13GB lab VM bundles Jenkins pipelines, OWASP Dependency-Check, FindSecBugs/FindBugs, OWASP ZAP, OpenVAS, Vault, Weave Scope, MailCatcher and… | ||
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