DevOpsDays Chicago 2019
2019-08-27..2019-08-28
Chicago, IL, United States
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as the organisers put it
DevOpsDays Chicago is coming back in 2019! The group that brought you DevOpsDays Chicago 2014-2018 is back together and planning the 2019 event. We
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, application developers, engineering managers, security engineers, developer experience engineers, database engineers
topics
feature flags and dark launches; test in production practices; trunk-based development workflows; Kubernetes migrations to EKS; Terraform state and secrets management; SLI/SLO error budget construction; blameless postmortem practices; observability with Honeycomb-style tooling; database migrations and ownership; ethics in computing and privacy; gradual rollout and release democratization; service ownership and team charters
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Ethics in Computing: When Right and Wrong Stop Being Obvious Ethics in computing sounds like a fairly straight forward proposition at first glance | Jeff Smith | 27m |
A series of concrete examples drives the argument: a missing teen’s phone is pinged only after 36 hours because police and the telecom delay a court-ordered… | ||
| All The World’s A Staging Server | Heidi Waterhouse | 31m |
Claim: staging is a lie because production is unknowable; duplication is expensive and brittle so the alternative is to deploy widely but hide exposure using… | ||
| An Evolutionary Approach to DevOps | Kevin Harriss | 30m |
A Chicago finance company (Enova) avoids a big‑bang rewrite and instead splits work into small platform teams (≈7–8 engineers), publishes public roadmaps and… | ||
| Devops without a Million Dollar Investment | Lakshmi Baskaran | 29m |
Begins with a failed, expensive rollout that spent $500,000 converting waterfall to agile and hiring consultants; adoption proves slower for legacy teams —… | ||
| To #comment or not? A data-driven look at... | Veronica Hanus | 05m |
Data-driven claim: a survey of 170 respondents (scraped/web survey) finds surprising practices and contradictions—60% use inline comments despite norms against… | ||
| What I Learned From A Dress, an On-Call Nightmare | Jay Gordon | 06m |
BuzzFeed sees 670,000 active visitors hit a viral post and a NoSQL-backed vote collector trips the backend so front-end servers can no longer serve new… | ||
| Yea, But... | Adam Shake | 05m |
Claim: resistance comes from habit not logic and the way to win is relationships and tiny experiments. Go talk to people, uncover pain points, pick one fix… | ||
| Attempting to Bring Blamelessness to Traffic Court | J. Paul Reed | 06m |
Claims that blameless incident analysis maps to traffic court, supported by concrete evidence: field photos, the California manual of traffic signs, DMV… | ||
| Migrating from VMs to K8s | Nick Petrovits, Allen Nelson | 46m |
A small startup migrates incrementally from long‑running EC2 VMs to Docker containers on EKS, starting with a low‑risk service then moving a memory‑hungry… | ||
| Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and... | Jennifer Petoff, Nathen Harvey | 31m |
Workshop teaches building error budget constructs with concrete mechanics: SLIs as good events / valid events ×100, measured at the load balancer, and SLO… | ||
| Using Terraform Safely | Martez Reed | 05m |
Terraform has 4,300 modules on GitHub and consuming public modules introduces real risk — an example registry vault module exposes SSH to the world — so… | ||
| The Princess Bride and Devops | Joshua Zimmerman | 06m |
The session lists 10 lessons drawn from The Princess Bride and makes concrete claims: cross‑functional teams need brains brawn and sword skills to storm the… | ||
| Failure and the Third Way | Aaron Blythe | 05m |
Argues that the Third Way yields continual experimentation by making failure safe and learnable, not punishable; cites Netflix keeps an engineer after two… | ||
| Deploying Radically, Democratizing Release | Heidi Waterhouse | 06m |
Claims that release gets democratized by shipping everything and using runtime controls to decide exposure, with concrete practices: feature flags, CI/CD… | ||
| How to shave a yak | Jason Yee | 06m |
Explains that yak shaving is literal and metaphorical: use an undercoat rake to separate soft down from coarse guard hair, record each animal by farm code name… | ||
| Document Like a Scientist | Karissa Peth | 24m |
Promises of broad advice or examples mean nothing; watch if the talk gives exact, reusable artifacts: a materials list with part numbers, dated procedures… | ||
| Bringing DevOps To The Database | Baron Schwartz | 33m |
Argues databases resist DevOps because they are stateful and legacy, and offers concrete, repeatable steps drawn from a decade of study and many case studies… | ||
| Service Ownership @Slack | Holly Allen | 30m |
Slack moves from a centralized ops team to dev teams that own the full lifecycle, with embedded SREs mentoring teams, service-level criteria, and one afternoon… | ||
| How to find (and retain) your hardest to hire positions | Pete Cheslock | 32m |
Practical hiring and retention advice: recruit key people years in advance, hire for intellectual curiosity and learning aptitude rather than checkbox skills… | ||
| Arrested Devops LIVE! | 29m | |
Live podcast records on a stage with a studio audience and announces distribution on iHeartRadio and Spotify. Panel argues engineers must own downstream harms… | ||
| Let's play a real life Dungeon and Dragons | Garima Sharma | 45m |
Roleplay of real incidents replaces lecturing: the method replays a past outage so the team replay incidents and practices queries that actually find problems… | ||
| Why Open Source Firmware is Important | Jessica Frazelle | 30m |
Argues that hidden privileged firmware causes real outages and security failures, backed by survey anecdotes and concrete incidents: a firmware flash affecting… | ||
| Devops Behavioral Economics: Displayed... | Michael Stahnke | 06m |
Dataset from CircleCI compares 1.5 million jobs a day across tens of thousands of orgs and reveals concrete behaviors: median build recoveries around minutes… | ||
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