DevOpsDays Boston 2024
2024-10-21..2024-10-22
Boston, United States
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who it's for
site reliability engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, devops engineers, data engineers, tech leads, security engineers
topics
ephemeral Kubernetes clusters; Terraform on Google Cloud; Prometheus and Grafana monitoring; CircleCI backed CI/CD pipelines; chaos engineering frameworks (Chaos Monkey Litmus Gremlin); blue/green and canary rollouts; active-active multi-region clusters; SQL linting with git pull-request checks; dynamic secrets with Vault; JWT expiry strategies for offline clients; measuring LLM answer correctness; fast Docker build optimizations
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Reflecting on the Promise of Meritocracy in Tech: Ladders of Opportunity & Ceilings... | Sara Gerion | 31m |
Claims that meritocracy perpetuates bias get backed by concrete evidence and fixes: a documented relative age effect in early selection, a cited 20% median… | ||
| Does how you give feedback matter? | Whitney Lovelace | 27m |
Argues that feedback changes careers and products, then gives a five‑part script—intent fear when what impact—plus concrete do/don’t rules: be prompt, ask… | ||
| How We Went From Two Major Outages to 99.98% Reliability in 6 Months | Eran Kampf | 31m |
Company pauses product engineering for a quarter and focuses on reliability, then hits 99.98% to 99.99% within months by practical changes. Stack uses… | ||
| Organizational Stability through Reliable Software through Testing | Natalie Lunbeck | 28m |
Argues that reliable testing is the foundation of organizational stability, with concrete practices: unit E2E integration and smoke tests, CI/CD pipelines that… | ||
| Bridging the DevOps Gap in Modern Data Teams | Elad Hirsch | 23m |
Argues that data must be treated as code and shows concrete patterns not platitudes: use provision databases with IaC and one‑writer multiple‑reader… | ||
| Exercising Influence and Direction from a Mid-Level Leadership Position | Sanjita Gupta | 29m |
Claims that mid-level leaders can change outcomes without formal authority: use watsonx Assistant casework, weekly office hours and explicit tech arguments to… | ||
| Unpaid maintainers: The Security Threat No One Is Talking About (yet) | Kanish Sharma | 29m |
Claim: most maintainers are unpaid and fragile — 60% unpaid maintainers and 60% have considered quitting or quit — so dependency risk is real. Evidence: the xz… | ||
| Building Resilient DevOps Pipelines: Strategies for Handling Unexpected Failures &... | Nikunj Doshi | 28m |
Promises concrete failure-handling patterns: redundant instances, automatic failover, replica databases, and capacity planning tied to RPO and RTO targets… | ||
| 5 Minutes to Failure: How finding your stake can help you | Oliver Herman | 05m |
Lightning format notes: systems often fail within five minutes so use stake positioning and a responsibility vs consequences curve plus a simple litmus test… | ||
| Measuring Generative AI Solutions | Grey Lovelace | 06m |
Describes concrete measurement: break ground truth into discrete claims and use an LLM as the judge to score answer correctness, e.g. an insurance-policy… | ||
| What SREs can learn from summer camp | Grant Cohoe | 06m |
A camp-to-SRE checklist claims six concrete takeaways: experiences, flexibility, attitude, debugging, presence, languages. Examples: DNS knowledge is rare, a… | ||
| Kubernetes clusters should be ephemeral | Timothy Bonci | 06m |
Claim: make Kubernetes clusters disposable and replace them regularly instead of in-place upgrades. Automation uses software-defined manifests… | ||
| 3 Weird Tricks to Make Docker Builds Go Vroom | Bryan Weber | 05m |
Three concrete tricks: enable GitHub Actions Docker build action caching so build layers persist in the Actions cache, cutting a small image from 44 seconds to… | ||
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