DevOpsDays Montréal 2024
2024-05-27..2024-05-28
Montréal, Canada
[DevOpsDays Montreal 2018, DevOpsDays Montreal 2019, DevOpsDays Montréal 2024, DevOpsDays Montreal 2025]
who it's for
platform engineers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, cloud engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
LXD private cloud builds; multistage Docker image pipelines; Kepler eBPF power metrics; carbon-aware pod scheduling; KEDA-driven autoscaling; incident communications and liaison; DORA metrics for delivery; Terraform modules with OpenTelemetry; Nix declarative package manager; Paketo Buildpacks for OCI; defense-in-depth engineering practices; industrial DevOps for space exploration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Ceremony - Day 1 | Franck Clerget, Lise-Andreé Duerré | 16m |
DevOpsDays Montréal 2024 is a volunteer-run, non-profit event hosting over 1,000 participants and 70 talks across two days with workshops, open spaces and a… | ||
| Industrial DevOps Igniting the Revolution in Space Exploration with rapid innovation | Robin Yeman | 31m |
Argues that applying Industrial DevOps shortens space program cycles by combining systems thinking, model-based engineering, Agile and DevSecOps into nine… | ||
| DevOps Lessons from a Primary School Teacher | Timothy Mamo | 23m |
Argues that primary-school practices accelerate DevOps adoption by fixing weak CALMS corners — specifically culture and sharing — with concrete techniques: use… | ||
| Power Tools to Hammer through Conversations | Ayesha Bhutto | 24m |
Five core power skills anchor the talk: Hammer = communication, Power drill = leadership, Tape measure = empathy, plus adaptability and teamwork as practical… | ||
| Towards a Sustainable Cloud-Native Platform | Alexis de Talhouët | 27m |
The talk explains how to build a more environmentally sustainable cloud-native platform by optimizing at OS/node, cluster and system levels using existing CNCF… | ||
| Mastering incident communications | Kat Gaines | 27m |
Argues that customer support should own the liaison role during major incidents, translating engineering terms into customer-facing updates and feeding… | ||
| The 3 Unfunded Pillars of Digital Business | Sasha Czarkowski Rosenbaum | 25m |
Three chronically unfunded investments are Technical Excellence, Platform Engineering, and Reliability (SRE) — claim: all code ages into technical debt and… | ||
| Open Spaces Ceremony - Day 1 | Ian Crosby, Christina di Maio | 18m |
Opening runs the open space format: the audience writes topics, six rooms run in parallel, and sessions use three 45‑minute slots; topics are posted downstairs… | ||
| Build your own cloud with LXD | Marian HackMan Marinov | 01h 41m |
Builds a small LXD/Incus cloud on four pre-provisioned VMs, shows real commands (incus/lxc, lvm, lvresize, resize2fs) to create an LVM pool, launch an image… | ||
| Hands-On Docker Workshop: From Basics to Advanced Practices | Hamida Rebai | 59m |
Hands-on workshop focused entirely on Docker, covering fundamentals (images, containers, Dockerfile), best practices, advanced features (likely multi-stage… | ||
| Defense-in-depth engineering | John Poulin | 01h 00m |
Covers concrete defenses: start with audit logs 7–14 days and map where sensitive data flows; build Playbooks and log-driven self-service for customers; write… | ||
| Opening Ceremony - Day 2 | Franck Clerget, Lise-Andreé Duerré, Ian Crosby | 07m |
An onstage demo shows an AI assistant controls CI/CD pipeline, running an automated test sequence with an estimated 15 minute run then a 5 minute diagnostic… | ||
| Software Delivery from First Principles | Josh Reed | 26m |
Argues software delivery is closer to industrial engineering than coding, claims reproducible builds (DAGs, hashes, not mtimes) cut wasted work but hit… | ||
| DevOps in the Cloud: Case Studies of Amazon.com teams and their resilient architectures | Seth Eliot | 31m |
Amazon runs two-pizza teams that own services end-to-end; a product detail page stitches calls from hundreds of backend services with a hard rule of graceful… | ||
| A DORA Metrics Adventure in Deciphering Engineering Changes | Yishai Beeri | 29m |
Practical method using DORA metrics plus git and Jira signals to answer whether a change is needed, how widely it’s adopted, whether it speeds delivery, and… | ||
| Technical Empathy | Leon Adato | 29m |
Defines technical empathy as seeing a design from the user’s perspective and lists concrete steps: build accessibility first (use alt text, closed captions… | ||
| Beyond Platform Engineering | Adriana Villela, Renata Rocha | 27m |
Argues that something after platform engineering emerges as an extension of DevOps, combining observability 2.0 (single source of truth via OpenTelemetry), AI… | ||
| What Stan Lee taught me about working in tech | Leon Adato | 08m |
Comic-book metaphors map to concrete career habits: learn core skills like Git and subnetting (the sling ring analogy) so small tools compose into powerful… | ||
| Do this, not that: Antipatterns in Continuous Deployment | Joyce Lin | 05m |
Covers concrete antipatterns and fixes for pushing code to hardware with examples: Fisker needed three OTA updates after a public review broke trust, Rivian… | ||
| It's ON! Running Impactful Project Weeks | Jessica David | 06m |
A recurring, scheduled team week called ON Week dedicates five days to experiments and proofs of concept, with planning starting two months earlier via a… | ||
| Enabling Product Thinking for Terraform Modules with OpenTelemetry (and OpenTofu) | Blair Drummond | 05m |
Shows a concrete pipeline: instrumented OpenTofu plus the Weaveworks TF‑Controller produce end to end traces that correlate module versions to deploy runs and… | ||
| Nix: The declarative package manager | Alexandre-Xavier Labonté-Lamoureux | 06m |
Nix acts as a reproducible, declarative package manager that boots identical environments across macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, ARM and Apple Silicon using version… | ||
| Paketo Buildpacks: the Best Way to Build OCI Images? | Anthony Dahanne | 07m |
Paketo Buildpacks are presented as an alternative to Dockerfiles for producing OCI images from source using language-specific best practices. The talk covers… | ||
| Open Spaces Ceremony - Day 2 | Ian Crosby, Franck Clerget | 08m |
Audience members call out roughly 20 topics for Open Spaces, then quickly merge similar ones and plan a quick vote to pick sessions. Proposals include… | ||
| DevSecOps from Zero to Hero! | Calin Lupas, Emmanuel Knafo | 01h 55m |
A practical overview of DevSecOps that explains how to integrate security across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It covers challenges and benefits… | ||
| The business case for continuous delivery | Alexandre Walsh | 32m |
Presents evidence linking scientific studies of productivity to Continuous Delivery, using DevOps metrics like DORA and Value Stream Management to quantify… | ||
| I lost my job! Now what?!? A survival guide for the unemployed | Ray Kim | 01h 01m |
After a layoff the guide urges first to process emotions and avoid rash choices, recounting 410 days out of work and sending 557 resumes during a yearlong hunt… | ||
| Closing ceremony - Day 2 | Franck Clerget, Lise-Andreé Duperreé | 08m |
The closing ceremony announces the raffle increased from one to six prizes, names several on-site winners, and promises to contact absent winners to deliver… | ||
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