DevOpsDays Chicago 2020
2020-09-01
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Inclusive Leadership: Authentic Conversations | Lani Phillips | 09m |
A concise method for starting workplace race and bias conversations: a built virtual forum that grows from small meetings into sustained sharing, a clear set… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Sherlaender (Lani) Phillips | Sherlaender (Lani) Phillips | 25m |
Advocates building a brief check-in at the start of meetings, abandoning agendas when needed, and explicitly reminding staff about time-off and EAP benefits… | ||
| Building A DevOps Culture in a Remote World | Emily Freeman | 21m |
A cautionary case study: a 30‑day rush to integrate with a new market feature leaves one server running legacy code called Power Peg, a reused feature flag… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Emily Freeman | Emily Freeman | 20m |
Recommends concrete steps: roll out feature flags (mentions vendor launch sharkly), stop fragile manual deploys by building a CI/CD pipeline that runs tests… | ||
| Prevent Heroism: How to Work Today Reduce Work Tomorrow | Quintessence Anx | 26m |
Argues that shifting from reactive firefighting to upstream work (preventative fixes) reduces overtime, burnout and turnover; shows a practical process… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Quintessence Anx | Quintessence Anx | 19m |
Argues that hero culture causes burnout and higher turnover and gives concrete levers: measure turnover and feature release rate to link heroism to slower… | ||
| Mayday, Mayday: Starting a job w/ a production incident | Laura Santamaria | 05m |
Claims that starting a job by jumping into a live production incident accelerates onboarding, showing how components connect and how teams operate; practical… | ||
| Leading a Digital Transformation at the Speed of Government | Henry Quinn | 05m |
Scaled a legacy ColdFusion court app into containers and Kubernetes using Docker and OpenShift, turning a manual one‑week onboarding into an automated… | ||
| Cutting Cloud Costs in COVID-19! | Jeff Smith | 05m |
Claims a 30% cut in two weeks without buying reserved instances by combining three tactics: buy reserved instances cautiously, schedule shutdowns 7pm–7am… | ||
| DevOps before there was DevOps, 20yr old style | Jeremy Meiss | 06m |
1996 ISP network admin faces mapping roughly 75 new drops across two floors and instead of tone tracing spends ~22 hours unplugging patch panel ports and… | ||
| The Bone Talk: Resilience and resilience engineering | Richard I. Cook, MD | 26m |
Bone is presented as the archetype of resilience: the adult skeleton replaces every 10 years through continuous, energy‑consuming remodeling guided by… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Dr. Richard Cook | Dr. Richard Cook | 20m |
Argues that resilience is a continual, observable capacity distinct from reliability, not just fewer outages, and that COVID forced rapid adaptation at scale… | ||
| Computational Thinking | Sarah Aslanifar | 21m |
Computational thinking is defined as iterative generative reasoning that builds executable, falsifiable models you can run on a machine. Concrete examples: a… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Sarah Aslanifar | Sarah Aslanifar | 20m |
Argues that computational thinking is a practical cognitive tool not a CS-only skill and demonstrates it with two concrete experiments: built a model of a mosh… | ||
| How to grow a local devops community without funding | Rafael Gomes | 15m |
Starts in Brazil in 2016 with Porto Alegre and two events that year and grows to 11 events in 2018 and 14 in 2019, scaling from 140 attendees to a nationwide… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Rafael Gomes | Rafael Gomes | 19m |
Built a grassroots DevOpsDays network across Brazil that launches 16 groups by teaching locals to run no-budget events and a simple framework plus a vetted… | ||
| Chaos: breaking your systems to make them unbreakable | Jason Yee | 20m |
Company runs 30-minute mini game days with three roles: game master, responder, scribe to cut prep from 90–120 minutes to a half hour. Workflow uses Donut to… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Jason Yee | Jason Yee | 19m |
Chaos engineering advocates deliberately controlled failures to validate hypotheses about reliability not to cause harm: a lightning-strike outage reveals a… | ||
| What alt-rock band Cake has to say about DevOps. | Aaron Aldrich | 05m |
Argues that 90s band Cake already sings core DevOps lessons: specific claims include blameless postmortems as better than finger‑pointing, observability as… | ||
| A Serverless Monitoring Checklist | Amy Arambulo Negrette | 05m |
Provides a concrete checklist for monitoring serverless apps: watch for data gaps and sudden drops to zero that imply outages, track timeouts and memory issues… | ||
| All I need to know about DevOps I learned from XKCD | Brendan O'Leary | 05m |
Claims that XKCD maps recurring DevOps realities: expect failures like left-pad removal, prioritize developer productivity over maintaining tools, and plan for… | ||
| This Is Not a Pipeline | Renata Rocha | 05m |
An engineer compares AWS CodePipeline to other CI/CD tools for infrastructure, describing practical experience, strengths, and limitations of CodePipeline. The… | ||
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