DevOpsDays Philadelphia 2017
2017-10-24..2017-10-25
Philadelphia, United States
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who it's for
devops engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, web developers, release engineers, database administrators, engineering managers
topics
continuous delivery on ECS; wordpress on serverless; serverless operations practices; vm to container migration; branching strategies for teams; one hour code deploys; database performance bottlenecks; reproducible genome workflows; brownfield DevOps practices; technical interview techniques; mentoring and team development
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Continuous Delivery On ECS | Tony Burns | 29m |
Capital One claims a working Continuous Delivery pipeline for ECS: CloudFormation-backed zero-downtime blue/green deploys for both clusters and services… | ||
| Are We There Yet? Signposts On Your Journey To Awesome | Nicole Forsgren | 35m |
Survey data from the State of DevOps Report (23,000+ responses) shows high performers deploy on-demand with lead time <1 hour, 46× more frequent deploys and… | ||
| Help! My Database Is The Bottleneck | Stephanie Herr | 31m |
Argues the database stops shipping when schema changes are ad hoc and ops stay siloed and offers concrete remedies: adopt schema versioning, build automated… | ||
| Provisioning Is Magic... | Jason M. Salber-Black | 05m |
Chooses SparkleFormation to generate CloudFormation from Ruby templates, producing separate CloudFormation stacks per environment via a CLI, and wires those… | ||
| The Case For Longer Hackathons | Sonia Sarda | 05m |
Argues for tiered hackathon system that runs in bursts beyond 24 hours so projects move from MVP to funding to market, with prizes that grow at each stage… | ||
| WordPress Goes Serverless | Danny Olson | 05m |
Claim: WordPress can shed monolithic hosting by treating core as an app and intermittently running a container that connects to an external DB and HTTP proxy… | ||
| Branching Strategies Ultimately Determine Product Complexity | Logan Daigle | 05m |
Branching strategy determines product complexity: keeping to trunk-based development with short‑lived branches and frequent merges plus feature toggles yields… | ||
| Why Why Why | André D. Henry | 05m |
Promises a shortened five whys but delivers mostly exhortation: arguments against cargo‑culting, a push to develop empathy for users and operators, and the… | ||
| Day 1 With Various Participants | Various Participants | 07m |
Four rapid, informal pieces from Ignite Karaoke riff on ops folklore rather than deliverable results: calls for visibility and rollbacks, frantic anecdotes… | ||
| From 6 Month Waterfall To 1h Code Deploys | Andreas Grabner | 35m |
Claims migration from six‑month waterfall to shipping feature releases every two weeks and executing 170 SaaS production changes/day while enabling 1h code… | ||
| A Better Technical Interview | Sam Jones | 27m |
Claims a better interview measures real work habits not trivia and gives candidates value back; specifics include a timed take-home exercise where candidates… | ||
| Embracing Serverless Ops | Erica Windisch | 32m |
Argues serverless shifts ops into developer hands while still needing ops tooling: IOpipe + Amazon Lambda + Kinesis replace VMs and Elastic Beanstalk for… | ||
| Like Software, Buildings Are Made Of People | Tim Gross | 05m |
Argues that buildings and software share concrete engineering problems not vague metaphors: construction enforces dependency management with components… | ||
| Reproducible Genome-Wide Analysis With Cloud Computing | Brian S. Cole, PHD | 06m |
Shows that upstream QC choices change GWAS outcomes: one top hit disappears when only the QC pipeline varies. Claims a reproducible pipeline called CLINK built… | ||
| Brownfield DevOps | Michael Winslow | 05m |
Automates release notes by wiring JIRA APIs to github and Jenkins plus a code‑scan API called merit code, turning an 11-hour process to under a minute. Pulls… | ||
| Adventures In Enterprise: Lessons Learned Promoting DevOps In A Legacy Organization | Steve Desmond | 05m |
An IT group repurposes an old Intel Power Mac as a CI server then wins budget for a real box, automates audit tracking and cuts deploy friction so releases… | ||
| OpenSource PowerShell... | Darwin Sanoy | 05m |
Claims that PowerShell’s architecture centers developer productivity and delivers measurable ROI, with concrete tools and outcomes: a PowerShell universal… | ||
| Choose Your Own Adventure | Bridget Kromhout | 06m |
Argues for picking the simplest infrastructure that actually solves the problem and warns that every added technology becomes someone’s 2:30 AM pager duty… | ||
| Day 2 With Various Participants | Various Participants | 07m |
Live coding an ECS with Nodejs app hits real AWS provisioning delays so the endpoint lags 2–3 seconds then needs minutes before the demo responds, and the app… | ||
| Overcoming The Challenges Of Mentoring | Kim Crayton | 32m |
Successful mentoring requires a plan: set measurable goals, schedule checkpoints, and use project‑based learning (start with small HTML/CSS/JS tasks and build… | ||
| From VMs To Containers: A DevOps Journey | David Grizzanti | 24m |
Comcast moves a multi–data-center notification service handling hundreds of millions of publishers per day and ~500 ms delivery from VMs into Docker on Apache… | ||
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