devopsdays Chicago 2016
2016-08-30..2016-08-31
Chicago, United States
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as the organisers put it
Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016 - Wednesday, Aug 31, 2016 Welcome! The group that brought you DevOpsDays Chicago 2015 is back together and planning the 2016 event. We’re encouraged by the feedback from last year’s event and are determined to bring an improved experience and continue the DevOps conversation this August in Chicago. Dates Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016 - Wednesday, Aug 31, 2016 Location Summit West in downtown Chicago Participants Register to attend the event!
who it's for
devops engineers, engineering managers, platform engineers, operations engineers, site reliability engineers, infrastructure architects, tech recruiters
topics
automation strategy and evolution; devops maturity models; evolving devops roles; IT risk and blame culture; inclusive devops practices; cloud inventory and governance; organizational resilience engineering; game mechanics for team cohesion; devops hiring and recruitment; container operations and lessons; refactoring infrastructure as code; enterprise migration to public cloud
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Evolution of Automation | Adam Jacob | 28m |
Argues that automation hits a production cliff where Docker or Chef work locally but fail at scale and human cost rises, and that the right answer is not… | ||
| The Five Phases of DevOps | Joel Vasallo | 27m |
Claims concrete wins: automation moves from 395 manual deployments to a CI/CD pipeline that pushes as many prod releases in one quarter as used to take a year… | ||
| How is the role of DevOps changing in a Serverless environment? | Jeremy Edberg | 29m |
Claims serverless doesn't eliminate DevOps but multiplies operational pain: the company migrates to AWS Lambda, uses kappa and apex, runs a Slack bot via ECS +… | ||
| Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT... | Angela Dugan | 25m |
Covers personal and team-level evidence: imposter feelings show up at big companies and in open source pull requests, fear kills collaboration, and… | ||
| Ways DevOps Could Be More Accessible | Alison Staton | 05m |
Finding "goat" in the DevOps Dictionary motivates a concrete claim: the main barrier is tribal knowledge and the cure is teaching. The evidence is an Amazon… | ||
| What's that creature living in my cloud? | Allie Richards | 05m |
Many attempts to "cattle-ize" systems stall and leave odd hybrids: a teacup pig — instances treated as replaceable but managed by hand via the cloud console… | ||
| Out of the Basement... | Jamesha Fisher | 05m |
Claims that common caricatures like Bastard Operator from Hell and stifling security engineers are misleading and harmful, backed by on-the-job anecdotes about… | ||
| Building resilience in our organizations... | Rebecca Miller-Webster | 05m |
Argues that resilience depends less on tech stacks and more on repairing trust after incidents, claiming deployment is an act of courage and failures mainly… | ||
| Dungeons and Dragons....and DevOps | Jeff Smith | 06m |
This draws a direct checklist: two essential roles — dungeon master and change agent — who build the party, keep momentum, and set the campaign story; start… | ||
| DevOps'ing Recruitment | Jill Jubinski | 30m |
Argues that recruitment improves when DevOps becomes DevOps = organizational effectiveness and lists concrete practices: involve recruiters in team meetings… | ||
| Lessons learnt from "Shipping" Containers | Àbéjídé Àyodélé | 29m |
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In Spring of 2016 Braintree decided to rebuild its CI system. At braintree we chose docker to… | ||
| Untangling Infrastructure Code... | Nell Shamrell-Harrington | 28m |
Shows how to refactor an actual terraform config that builds a Chef server plus Supermarket test cluster on AWS, using Test Kitchen, kitchen terraform and… | ||
| Leading an Enterprise to the Public Cloud | Brian Henerey | 29m |
Enterprise moves production of customer‑facing sites and NPI data in production onto AWS with a documented business case, NIST 853‑aligned controls, and a AWS… | ||
| Fear of the Bus | Heidi Waterhouse | 06m |
Argument: documenting ops reduces the bus factor by making knowledge discoverable. Method: force folks to add steps to one giant scrolling file, mark… | ||
| Presenting Nervously | Morgan Rhodes | 05m |
Advice lists concrete habits that reduce panic: outline during CFP so accepted talks already have a skeleton, practice over and over until timing and phrasing… | ||
| What I’ve learned interviewing more than 150 people face to face | Michael Stahnke | 06m |
Claims 150+ face to face interviews, growing Puppet from 35 to 450+ and a hiring process built on measurable practices: a shared scorecard, six to eight… | ||
| DevOps Deep Thoughts by Not Jack Handey | Joshua Zimmerman | 06m |
Rapid-fire one-liners assert tongue-in-cheek claims about Docker, VMware, DNS, containers, orchestration and serverless realities while mocking broken semver… | ||
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