devopsdays Eindhoven 2023
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, engineering managers, developer experience engineers, security engineers, devops coaches
topics
service level objectives and burn rate; ephemeral bastion access clusters; AWS account vending machine; Backstage developer portal; ephemeral GitHub Runners; chaos engineering and incident drills; compliance framework with terraform checks; platform engineering for sustainability; GitHub Copilot and developer tools; InnerSource at scale
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| From grey goo to grandma's napalm the ethics of AI and what you can't do with it | Ben Gamble | 25m |
Explains concrete risks and workarounds: generative models need many tries (often 7th or 8th prompt) to get usable images, attackers circumvent safeguards with… | ||
| The day I broke production and it was on national television | Robin Gilijamse | 25m |
A midnight maintenance to split a four-node cluster into two fails, triggering a split‑brain so neither half forwards multicast traffic; rollback also fails… | ||
| Platform engineering | Jelle Pelgrims | 14m |
NS runs apps across multiple clouds and creates one AWS account per team per environment, so engineering builds an account vending machine and an account… | ||
| InnerSource at scale Let's innovate together! | David Terol | 27m |
Philips builds an internal open‑source ecosystem on GitHub with ephemeral GitHub Runners serving 13–30k CI jobs/day, a Backstage developer portal for one‑click… | ||
| DevOps Adoption Patterns at ASML IT Stimulating a DevOps Mindset | Phani Bhushan, Tom Slenders | 21m |
ASML frames DevOps adoption as a pull‑then‑push pattern: build a clickable knowledge base, teach middle managers with value stream mapping and hand out The… | ||
| The DevOps Improv Session | Lian Li | 22m |
Live improv exercises teach practical communication for ops teams using two staged games: three-headed consultant (one-word sequencing) and… | ||
| a pint sized introduction to SLO | Bram Vogelaar | 06m |
Argues that reliability needs concrete SLOs tied to business metrics not vague dashboards, claiming internal SLO targets should be stricter than customer SLAs… | ||
| Scalable Infrastructure Access Management | Debarshi Basak | 02m |
Claims bastion hosts cause single-point-of-failure and get replaced by access clusters running on Kubernetes or ECS; those clusters run ephemeral bastion… | ||
| 5 ways to burnout your engineers | Suzanne Daniels | 05m |
Calls out five explicit anti-patterns and then flips to fixes: hires with 3‑month interview processes and zero onboarding, measures everything in one opaque… | ||
| The Stoic Engineer how a 2300 years old philosophy can help you thrive in your jo | Alessandro Vozza | 05m |
Argues that Stoicism gives concrete tools for engineers: four virtues (justice, temperance, courage, wisdom) and seven practical pillars such as premeditatio… | ||
| Compliance in the Driver’s Seat Is Your Cloud Car Stuck in the Carpark | Sevi Karakulak | 05m |
A banking client cannot deploy because security deems the cloud design noncompliant, so the team automates pipelines, enforces cloud policies, adds alerting… | ||
| Dealing with drag | Stefan Holdermans | 25m |
Argues that measuring team-level performance not individual productivity is the right move and that “drag” is concrete: manual deployments, flaky docs… | ||
| Organising a fast growing DevOps team a real life use case | Popoff Michka | 22m |
Company grows 20→120 employees and DevOps expands 2→15 people; central platform team and offshore Ops are replaced by local hires and embedded DevOps per… | ||
| How to Increase Developer Productivity and Happiness | Silvia Longo, Jeremy Hartley | 21m |
Companies with 2,000 engineers try measuring productivity and hit a Gartner‑style hype curve: pick one metric, buy tools like LinearB or Jellyfish or run… | ||
| Cultural Relativism a Prism for Constructing Communities | Claude Warren | 24m |
Argues that cultural relativism is a practical lens to find friction in cross‑cultural dev teams and gives concrete fixes: use ethnographic awareness, declare… | ||
| New Age Of Reality How To Use Your Imagination To Smash Your Goals | Lena Thompson | 25m |
Presents a practical model: energy, imagination, decisions as levers to hit big goals, backed by Human Design’s claim of five energy types — 5 Human Design… | ||
| Driving Sustainability with Platform Engineering | Lesley Cordero | 28m |
Claim: platform engineering reduces organizational churn by centralizing repeatable work and enabling sustainable software through socio-technical practices… | ||
| Transformation From a Traditional Organization to Embracing Agility and DevO | Michiel Valk | 26m |
Utility company serving 2.5 million customers shifts from SAFe to cloud native and serverless patterns, adds an event driven domain design and a virtual… | ||
| The Cathedral, The Bazaar and the Coffee House | Claude Warren | 05m |
Argues for a new coffee house metaphor: organized cross-company communities that fund and coordinate maintenance of shared code. Cites concrete numbers — 99%… | ||
| Stop adding business value and become an artist with your IT skills | Marc Duiker | 05m |
Argues that coding for pleasure boosts wellbeing citing a 2015 Journal of Social Science and Medicine paper on happiness and lifespan and urges a break from… | ||
| Long Live Sustainability | Boriss Mejias | 05m |
Argues PostgreSQL is community-owned and effectively irrevocably free, cites Oracle’s acquisition of SecondQuadrant/EDB as evidence that companies change but… | ||
| Flying Blind - Accessibility in Monitoring | Feu Mourek | 05m |
Monitoring dashboards fail many users because color alone breaks for 285 million people with visual impairment and common red green deficiencies. Examples show… | ||
| Copilot, a super quick tour | April Edwards | 05m |
GitHub Copilot launched in 2021 and is now generally available with an enterprise offering, Copilot Chat live and Copilot Voice coming soon; integrations… | ||
| DevSecOps – The synergy between security education and security champions | Dominik de Smit | 22m |
Argues for a mandatory basic security "driver's license" for engineers, citing a 3.4 million cybersecurity workforce gap and Gartner's prediction that skills… | ||
| Legacy Codebases are a DevOps Issue | Ben Dechrai | 26m |
Legacy systems measurably slow development and inflate maintenance costs, so automation and incremental change win over big rewrites: using CI/CD pipelines… | ||
| The Planet as Our Stakeholder - Finding ways to a green future | Marjolein Pilon | 29m |
Argues teams can cut IT carbon by changing practices rather than waiting for corporate policy: runs planet retrospectives, creates energy labels for apps… | ||
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