DevOpsDays Philadelphia 2016
as the organisers put it
Dates Wednesday, Oct 26, 2016 - Thursday, Oct 27, 2016 Location Chemical Heritage Foundation Register Register to attend the conference! Program View the program. -- Speakers Check out the speakers! -- Sponsors Sponsor the event! It's a great way to attract new talent and promote your organization. Contact Get in touch with the Organizers Follow @devopsdaysphl!
who it's for
devops engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, cloud engineers, security engineers, engineering managers, remote team leads
topics
continuous integration and delivery; AWS data analysis automation; AWS KMS secret management; history of Linux containers; programming your infrastructure; service health checks and metrics; DevOps culture transformation; tech inclusion practices; remote work best practices; burnout and team resilience; DevOps antipatterns
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Software-Defined Culture | Tim Gross | 28m |
Makes a concrete claim: use technology choices to improve culture by reversing Conway's Law. Offers four actionable principles — build for reliability, build… | ||
| From Dev to DevOps | Mauricio Linhares | 34m |
Developers leave “throw it over the wall” and start running production: they reproduce production with deployable images, discover native dependency failures… | ||
| DIY Tech Inclusion | Catherine Enck, Kaitlin Picco | 31m |
Claims simple, actionable DIY steps raise inclusion without a consultant: focus on four pillars—hiring, retention, promotion, culture—and use concrete tools… | ||
| Buzzword Bingo: Architecting a Cloud-Native Wayback Machine | Ross Kukulinski | 29m |
Open-source Wayback clone called cloudy time machine implements a containerized, microservice pipeline using Node.js front end in React, REST documented with… | ||
| Ignite: How CI/CD helped us "Bill Pay team" to deliver features faster to customers | Shilpa Jindal | 06m |
Consolidating scattered Bill Pay services into a single Bill Pay team microservice and wiring GitHub commits to automated pipelines on AWS cuts release cadence… | ||
| Ignite: How DevOps Antipatterns Ruined Holidays | Leon Fayer | 06m |
Black Friday produces an 8 hour downtime for a mid‑sized e‑commerce site that earns about $5M/month, costing roughly $30k/hour in lost sales and opportunity… | ||
| Ignite: The History of Linux Containers | Jon Mosco | 05m |
Starts with chroot (1979) then traces FreeBSD jails (2000), VServer and early Linux patches, kernel namespaces and cgroups (merged around 2.6.24 / 2006–2007)… | ||
| Ignite: Moving from regular sysadmin to DevOps | Oguz Pastirmaci | 06m |
Moves from being a hands-on datacenter sysadmin into DevOps by joining daily standups, answering surprise requests like 200 VMs with 2 GB each, and learning… | ||
| Automation of Data Analysis in AWS | Berenice Venegas Cotero | 34m |
DevOpsDays Philly 2016 - What Does CLoud Computing Has to Offer by Berenice Venegas Cotero
Cloud computing and the advancement of tools for resource… | ||
| Ignite: Effective Remote Workers | Rick Pufky | 06m |
Claim: most remote workers burn out after about five years unless routines and visibility replace office serendipity. Recommends a morning routine and a… | ||
| Do You Know If Your Service Is Working Properly?... | Eric Sigler | 28m |
Claims that running production functional tests (simple RSpec or HTTP-driven scripts checked into a repo and executed from an external host) catches… | ||
| Application Secret Management with AWS KMS | Andrey Utis | 20m |
Uses AWS KMS with an encryption‑context policy so only an instance with the right IAM roles can decrypt secrets stored in GitHub as ciphertext. Jenkins… | ||
| Cloudy With a Chance of Devops | Bridget Kromhout | 37m |
DevOpsDays Philly 2016 - Cloudy With a Chance of Devops by Bridget Kromhout
Devops is culture enabled by tools, which are necessary but not sufficient. I… | ||
| Ignite: Programming your infrastructure | Dave Long | 06m |
Argues that infrastructure must be written and tested like an application: code is deployed once successfully with chef cookbooks but fails on repeat runs when… | ||
| Ignite: What we’re learning about burnout and how a DevOps culture can help | Ken Mugrage | 05m |
Explains concrete steps: use value stream mapping to establish a baseline, have the actual practitioners map each step, and measure cycle time (dishes… | ||
| Ignite: Effective Remote Workers | Rick Pufky | 06m |
Claims remote workers commonly burn out after five-year burnout and gives concrete practices that people actually use: segregate morning routine and a… | ||
| Ignite Karaoke! with Many People | Leon Fayer, Chris Mann, Kevin Lee, Adam Ochonicki, Peter Shannon, John Brouse, Clinton Wolfe | 12m |
Claims hit specific pain: don’t use production as a test environment because it’s a brittle museum artifact, legacy DBs outlive band‑aid fixes, and running… | ||
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