DevOpsDays Philadelphia 2019
as the organisers put it
Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Most devopsdays events feature a combination of curated talks and self organized open space content.
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, DevOps engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, test automation engineers, people and hiring managers
topics
Kubernetes secrets encryption; KMS-backed envelope encryption; Helm v3 roll-forward deployments; Virtual Kubelet ephemeral nodes; Brigade event-driven workflows; Open Policy Agent policies; Packer and Terraform images; Chrome Remote Desktop access; Canary continuous delivery; Prometheus and distributed tracing; AIOps clustering and triage; Test automation pyramid
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Base64 is not encryption... | Seth Vargo | 29m |
Kubernetes secrets are base64 encoded and written to etcd in plaintext so anyone with etcd access reads credentials; the remedy shown is envelope encryption… | ||
| Arrested DevOps Live... | Jocelyn Harper, Tim Gross, Bridget Kromhout, Peter Shannon | 30m |
Panel argues that ethics and concrete engineering choices matter: an IoT sensor is made product that can't identify individuals and becomes a competitive… | ||
| Join Our Party: The Cloud Native Adventure Brigade | Bridget Kromhout | 31m |
Advocates using a managed Kubernetes control plane and concrete tools rather than broad platitudes: Helm v3 for packaged installs (rollbacks are unreliable… | ||
| Remote Desktop, Continuously Delivered | Rosemary Wang | 25m |
A continuously delivered remote desktop image that boots in three to five minutes is built and shown working end-to-end: scripts validated with Vagrant, images… | ||
| We Have a Complex Systems Problem…and We Need to Talk About It | Jon Moore | 36m |
Argues that modern software is a bona fide complex system (cascading failures, emergence, nesting, dark debt) not merely complicated, so engineering choices… | ||
| Creating a Culture of Inclusion | Jeremy Hayes | 21m |
Provides concrete, actionable steps: use pronoun stickers and include pronouns in signatures, build visible signals like Pride swag (example: Hoshi comp), and… | ||
| Deduplicating an Organization | Jearvon Dharrie | 28m |
Comcast frames the problem as eliminating redundant engineering work and builds consensus with charters, Slack arch-W channels and architecture ADRs that… | ||
| AIOps Is How We Will Survive DevOps | Marco Coulter | 29m |
Claims that AIOps reduces 2am firefights by automating baselining, clustering and root‑cause triage, demonstrates a linear‑regression demo in pandas and… | ||
| CI/CD (Constantly Ignoring, Constantly Deflecting): A Case Study of Pervasive Indifference in Technology | Jocelyn Harper | 30m |
Case studies name real actions and real consequences: IBM punch cards enabling genocidal bureaucracy, 50 million Facebook users harvested by Cambridge… | ||
| Ignites - Zero to DevOps in less than a year... | Rachel Sweeney | 06m |
Claims rapid career change from zero IT experience to Assistant DevOps Engineer at Pew Research Center within a year and being offered 4 of 5 DevOps jobs… | ||
| Ignites - The Test Automation Pyramid | Alan S Koch | 06m |
The Test Automation Pyramid asserts a concrete architecture: build a foundation of 100% code coverage via unit tests using stubs and harnesses, add focused… | ||
| Ignites - Nontechnical Skills for Technical People | Marissa Murphy | 05m |
Practical, concrete advice: copy and paste your error into Google first, fall back to keyword searches for situations like a terraform 0.11 to 0.12 upgrade… | ||
| Ignites - A Brief, Wild Ride...by Marco Coulter | Marco Coulter | 06m |
Quantum computing gets grounded here: a qubit lives on a chip at milli kelvin temperatures inside a dilution refrigerator, coherence and error rates dominate… | ||
| Ignites - DevOps for good: How you can... | Steve Ross | 06m |
DevOps skills map to concrete nonprofit needs: Slack, Trello, G Suite, Salesforce often arrive with nonprofit discounts, data wrangling turns manual… | ||
| Ignite Karaoke with Various Speakers | 07m | |
A light, improvised set of riffs that names ideas but offers no concrete claims, metrics, or working demos: mentions performance management and suggests… | ||
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