DevOpsDays Chicago 2017
2017-09-12..2017-09-13
Chicago, United States
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as the organisers put it
The group that brought you DevOpsDays Chicago 2014-2016 is back together and planning the 2017 event. We're encouraged by the feedback from previous year's events and are determined to bring an improved experience and continue the DevOps conversation for 2017 in Chicago.
who it's for
devops engineers, site reliability engineers, security engineers, platform engineers, database engineers, data engineers, engineering managers
topics
chaos engineering practices; continuous delivery pipelines; trunk-based development; container image security scanning; serverless on Azure; database migrations with Liquibase; infrastructure graphing with Neo4j; ELT pipelines to Redshift; continuous red teaming; failure analysis and incident postmortem
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Hacking Human Systems | Jeff Smith | 29m |
Argues that failures usually come from human systems not tech and defines concrete levers: identify measurable stocks (pain, backlog, known risks), map… | ||
| Security, Don't Fear the DevOps | Bill Weiss | 33m |
Uses State of DevOps Report 2017 data: high performers deploy 46× more frequently, have lead times minutes to under an hour vs weeks in low performers, recover… | ||
| Diversity is Not Just a Checklist | Rhea Ghosh | 24m |
Argues for concrete behaviors not platitudes and gives repeatable examples: mentorship that turns a business analyst into a DBA and later an SRE, using… | ||
| Getting Good At System Failure Analysis | Paul Hinze | 31m |
Failure analysis is a learnable craft: adopt a fix‑it posture, treat failures as data and opportunity, and scope problems with simple models like sequence and… | ||
| Serverless Architecture in Azure | Rob Richardson | 48m |
Clear claims and runnable examples: Functions billed per execution versus web jobs that run continuously as console apps with cron or queue triggers; an image… | ||
| Automating myself out of a job... | Jahmel Harris | 39m |
Argues that left‑shifting finds most low‑ to mid‑risk bugs early and claims automation can remove roughly 70% of issues before a pen test. Describes hooking… | ||
| Devaluing Hard Work | Katie Prizy | 33m |
A 15-month program converts 500+ enterprise apps to a standard methodology and push-button CI/CD pipelines with automated builds, code quality scans… | ||
| DevOps Practices for the Database Team | Pramod Sadalage | 31m |
Argues for putting all database artifacts in version control and running schema changes through CI/CD with migration frameworks like liquibase, flyway… | ||
| Graphs: The Fabric of DevOps | Ashley Sun | 29m |
Lending Club builds a central graph of infrastructure so teams can actually act on it: Mercator feeds a neo4j database that models 400+ microservices plus… | ||
| Burnout: Community Problem & Community Solution | Jason Yee | 34m |
Forty percent of U S tech folk regularly lose sleep 46 percent in Chicago and 82 percent are actively considering leaving the field so burnout is common and… | ||
| You Have A Data Lake, Now What? | Alison Stanton | 29m |
A practical roadmap: inventory sources, pick start with the easiest fastest use case (example: helpdesk ticket dashboard), ELT raw into a warehouse, then… | ||
| Delivering Continuous Security with Docker | Matthew Schlue | 34m |
Describes concrete steps: a CI step runs dpkg --list and pip freeze into a database keyed by image tag so queries map running ECS containers to exact package… | ||
| Ignites- How to DevOpsDays | Joe Nuspl | 05m |
Practical checklist: get on Twitter to crowdsource links and follow projects, ignore your co-workers during sessions so cross‑pollination happens, use the… | ||
| Ignites- Containers, Virtual Machines... | Nell Shamrell-Harrington | 06m |
Claim: pick infrastructure by state and isolation not hype. Containers run stateless → containers like web servers or ephemeral caches and remain portable… | ||
| Ignites- Title: Management or Technical? | Michael Stahnke | 06m |
Claim: you can lead and still write code. Cites Puppet experience, grew team from 1 to ~38 and keeps prioritize people over computers. Describes concrete… | ||
| Ignites- Don't be a Bystander, be an Incident Commander! | Rachael Byrne | 05m |
Claims that nontechnical staff can lead incidents, backed by a concrete training pipeline used at PagerDuty: define the incident commander as coordinator not… | ||
| Ignites- Your Body's Configuration is Important, too | Peter Piekarczyk | 05m |
Says developers face rising anxiety, stress and depression from nonstop cognitive work, and labels mental injury as as real as physical injury, with concrete… | ||
| Ignites- Escaping the Black Hole of Release Management | Jeffrey Sykes | 05m |
Manual release work consumes 65% of the team's time, spanning .NET, Java, front-end, PHP and Ruby across 10 different web CMS and 8 different databases. The… | ||
| Ignites- Lending Privilege | Anjuan Simmons | 06m |
Argues that credibility lending and access lending are concrete tools for inclusion and gives three actionable moves: invite someone to present to the… | ||
| Ignites- Why Are You So Angry?... | Soo Choi | 06m |
Recounts concrete 1990s risks and coping strategies: gave out itinerary flyers for safety, endured blatant harassment before codes of conduct existed, and lost… | ||
| Ignites- The Five Dirty Words of CI | J. Paul Reed | 06m |
Claim: post‑mortems framed as linear CI tools fail — root cause analysis often yields eight “root causes” and is misleading. Replace five whys with systemic… | ||
| Ignites- Devops Deeper Thoughts by Not Jack Handey | Joshua Zimmerman | 06m |
Parody delivers specific quips and practical warnings not platitudes most claims target tooling and ops habits for instance kubernetes allegedly has a secret… | ||
| Arrested DevOps - Arrested DevOps Live! | Matt Stratton, Katie Prizy, Bill Weiss, Sasha Czarkowski Rosenbaum | 40m |
Live, unscripted podcast recorded before an audience that claims hero culture rewards overtime and points to research (productivity drops after about 55… | ||
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