DevOpsDays NYC 2016
2016-09-23..2016-09-24
New York City, United States
[DevOpsDays NYC 2016, DevOpsDays NYC 2018, DevOpsDays NYC 2020, DevOpsDays NYC 2023]
who it's for
site reliability engineers, devops engineers, platform engineers, infrastructure engineers, security engineers, engineering managers, ux designers, application developers
topics
AWS Lambda adoption; test-driven infrastructure; infrastructure as code; application security in DevOps; post-quantum operations; on-call and incident surveys; systems thinking for operations; scaling through trust; unconscious bias in UX; empathetic communication practices; data versus intuition in decisions; pioneers-settlers-town-planners team model
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Eliminating Unconscious Bias Through UX Design | Marcus Finley, Rakia Finley | 33m |
Workshop claims unconscious bias can be reduced by changing design practice and shows concrete steps: flip the narrative on user personas, add diverse use… | ||
| Learning How to Dev in an Ops World | Frank Mitchell | 17m |
An ops team rewrites Conqueso into propsd and discovers the codebase is a mess from applying ops patterns to product design and development they flail with… | ||
| Blue Grass in a Brown Field... | Nivia Henry | 36m |
Claims that a learning organization needs three concrete things—safety, space and purpose—and gives tested mechanics: explicit working agreements, engineering… | ||
| 3AM, a Survey | Eric Sigler | 05m |
Analysis of notification volume pulled from a data analytics warehouse and bucketed hourly shows a real spike around 3AM and a much worse night/day gap, with… | ||
| From Amazon Mom to Amazon Lambdas | Natacha Springer | 05m |
Narrative claims a career pivot from stay at home mom into DevOps with concrete outcomes: fellowship at the farm school, job at the Wall Street Journal and… | ||
| The Benefit of A Systems Lens... | Jason Hand | 06m |
Claims that a systems lens makes interpersonal feedback more accurate, reduces needless judgment, and clarifies accountability, supported by three diagnostic… | ||
| Post-Quantum DevOps | Nick Doiron | 05m |
Google NIST and the NSA push developers to prepare because quantum algorithms (Shor style) will break factoring based TLS and common PKI once large quantum… | ||
| Programming your Infrastructure | Dave Long | 05m |
Argues that infrastructure must be written and maintained like an application: cookbooks do one thing (an elasticSearch cookbook installs elasticSearch only)… | ||
| Moving Fast Together: Test-Driven Infrastructure | Victoria Jeffery | 22m |
Claims a workflow that runs infrastructure tests inside CI using the inspec gem, no agents on production, and integrates with Test Kitchen and Chef. Shows… | ||
| Beyond Testing: Application Security in the Age of DevOps | Tim Jarett | 26m |
Argues that security belongs before, inside and after the CI/CD pipeline and gives five concrete principles including Automate Security In, Integrate to Fail… | ||
| How Can You Scale It If You Don't Trust It? | David N. Blank-Edelman | 20m |
Argues that scaling requires engineering trust via enforceable, pervasive policy rather than paperwork or tribal knowledge, and shows concrete enforcement… | ||
| SRE: An incomplete guide to cultural Narnia | Anthony Caiafa | 21m |
Company-scale SRE at Bloomberg handles 4,000 developers and thousands of apps by splitting roles into application SREs and infrastructure SREs, building… | ||
| Empathetic communication... | Sharon Steed | 20m |
Argues that vulnerability and empathy are the actual levers of collaboration, not soft platitudes: a life‑long stutter starting around age four and still… | ||
| Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners of Catan | Bridget Kromhout | 05m |
Compares enterprise IT to Settlers of Catan and claims the Cities and Knights expansion shows why there are multiple viable strategies rather than one right… | ||
| Things I learned about engineering from being a chef | Jason Yee | 05m |
Cooked at the James Beard House and in a two Michelin star kitchen and after breaking down hundreds of pounds of tuna loins and making about a million sushi… | ||
| Don't Believe the Data! Data VS Intuition in Decision Making | Aaron Atwell | 05m |
Claims that systems generate 225 alerts a day leading to roughly 11,250 lines to process, that outages cost $145–$250 per minute, and that forecasters improve… | ||
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