DevOpsDays Boston 2020
2020-09-29
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and MC Intros | Don Luchini, Michael D'Aniello | 08m |
Conference shifts to a one-day format on the hop-in platform, trading the Cyclorama for virtual rooms and a single track so every session runs on the main… | ||
| Keynote - Automated Governance | John Willis | 36m |
Joined Red Hat last year and describes a concrete DevOps automated governance reference: a seven‑stage pipeline of attestations tied to source control and… | ||
| Agile is also for Ops | Jason Malstrom | 32m |
Argues agile does work for Ops and shows what actually changes: move from chaotic Jira piles to a single pull queue, enforce work-in-progress limits, break… | ||
| Decentralized config management for the cloud | Greg Arnette, Matthew Conway | 34m |
Claims a recurring problem: decades of mixed tools (Terraform CloudFormation serverless Chef Puppet) cause configuration sprawl and inconsistent secrets and… | ||
| Updating the Edge | Kat Cosgrove | 31m |
Claim: edge devices update fast and safely if built with the right pipeline and tooling. A proof‑of‑concept uses a Raspberry Pi 3B+ strapped to an RC car and… | ||
| Job Fair Announcement | Cody Lazri | 04m |
Organizers announce a virtual job fair Nov 12 connecting hiring partners with Boston-based and fully remote roles, plus a persistent Discord job forum for… | ||
| Testing in Production | Talia Nassi | 35m |
Claim: test in production by default, not staging; staging often costs over $100k/year and still diverges from prod. Uses feature flags via Split.io to target… | ||
| How to work as a team, sleepy to strong pair programming | Stacy Cashmore | 32m |
Claim: pairing moves value faster and reduces silos when practiced with concrete habits. Removes distractions (phones out of reach), expands driver/navigator… | ||
| Breakout Session Update | Derek Buckley | 01m |
Breakout sessions report practical takeaways: an observability discussion that digs into real approaches, a session saying helm helps many companies but also… | ||
| Blending Product Thinking with Architecture | Joel Tosi | 30m |
Argues that architecture must be tied to concrete product assumptions and shows specific practices that change decisions: use story mapping and simple visual… | ||
| Book Club Update | Tom McGonagle | 02m |
Weekly book club meets every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and reads concrete books rather than abstract theory, currently kubernetes managing kubernetes, an… | ||
| Service Mess to Service Mesh | Rob Richardson | 34m |
Live demos with Istio and Linkerd show concrete tradeoffs: Linkerd installs in minutes and focuses on a fast, self-contained getting started while Istio offers… | ||
| Board and Event Involvement | Michael Thomas Clark | 04m |
Creates a non‑profit parent, Boston DevOps Network, to lock in funding and liability protection and to funnel surplus money to local tech‑learning charities… | ||
| Observability is More than Logs, Metrics & Traces | Philipp Krenn | 30m |
You know the drill: DevOps is using tool(s) X. So obviously, observability can be solved by throwing some tools together as well; generally logs, metrics, and… | ||
| BDO Meetup and Community Update | Paul Bruce | 03m |
The local BDO meetup is active and moves to monthly meetups on the last week of every month, fully virtual for the foreseeable future. Focus stays on culture… | ||
| Passing the Technical Interview | Ben Edmunds | 29m |
Shows working PHP solutions for FizzBuzz, 8 Queens and Quicksort with complexity discussion, maps the interview funnel from phone screen to a four-to-six-hour… | ||
| Organizer Wrap-up and Thanks | 06m | |
Organizers report this is the first virtual DevOpsDays Boston, drop swag and food from the checklist, and run all breakouts remotely; video streaming uses OBS… | ||
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