devopsdays Portland 2019
2019-09-10..2019-09-12
Portland, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Unicorn Project And The Five Ideals | Gene Kim | 33m |
Announces a new novel due Nov 26 that frames practical DevOps lessons as the Five Ideals: locality and simplicity, flow and joy, continuous improvement… | ||
| Everyone's a player in a mid 90s MUD | Kenzie Woodbridge | 31m |
Applies Bartle’s 1996 player-type model to real documentation problems at a large post‑secondary IT shop, mapping four personas — Sprout, Turnip, Kale… | ||
| Everything I know about incident response | Thai Wood | 28m |
Claim: incidents are inevitable so focus on response, not prevention. Use EMS practices: breath, do a scene size‑up, gather O‑PQRST (Onset, Provocation… | ||
| Here's your Pager GLHF | Andy Fleener | 26m |
Manager-level program for on-call focuses on building real expertise through practice and systems: week-long shifts, explicit compensation or comp time for… | ||
| Ignite - Everyone is Wrong About DevOps Except for Me | Matt Stratton | 05m |
Claims that DevOps is more than just tools and you can’t buy DevOps get flipped: the talk argues tools and automation dominate, cites Docker as “boring and… | ||
| Ignite - Negotiating Your Next Job in Tech | Ashina Marie Sipiora | 05m |
Start by benchmarking pay with Glassdoor and PayScale and state “I’m currently making X and open to” to avoid being anchored; include total compensation (base… | ||
| Ignite - Observability Observed | Aaron Aldrich | 05m |
Observability means measuring customer-facing service health instead of server stats, claiming it’s not just “monitoring with a new name” but a mindset shift… | ||
| Ignite - Product Owners are Reliabilibuddies | Terri Haber | 05m |
Teams identify system boundaries, define customer-facing capabilities, and agree on a plain-language definition of "available." SLIs and SLOs get instrumented… | ||
| Prioritizing Trust while Creating Applications | Jennifer Davis | 35m |
Push security left by adding concrete steps: integrate GitHub automated security alerts and static analysis into CI/CD, run linting and code reviews with… | ||
| How to have an operational incident a crash course | Courtney Eckhardt | 30m |
Clear actionable checklist for getting an incident under control: have reliable monitoring and thresholds, advertise a single assembly Slack channel or… | ||
| Continuous Integration Testing | Dave Stanke | 26m |
Describes concrete CI patterns for high‑fidelity integration tests: build containers, provision an SUT, run curl/grep checks, then tear down. Compares four… | ||
| Best Vends The How and Why to befriend your vendors | Paige Bernier | 25m |
Vendors are “secret teammates” in your stack and investing a little time returns features, influence and saved engineering effort. Specific, low-effort… | ||
| Continuous Improvements DevOps and Mental Illness | Aaron Aldrich | 33m |
Describes living with ADHD as a dopamine deficiency that breaks working memory and executive function, cites a 2016 opt‑in tech survey where 42% report… | ||
| Ignite - 10 Things I Hate About DevOps | Dawn Parzych | 05m |
Lists ten concrete complaints about DevOps: multiple, conflicting definitions; no single “best practice”; renaming ops to DevOps doesn’t fix broken culture… | ||
| Ignite - How Fast Was My Kubernetes? | Josh Berkus | 05m |
Microbenchmarks run PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and others on bare metal, local volumes, and cloud‑native stacks using Ceph with Rook. Local volumes show near… | ||
| Ignite - Web Performance Where to start? | Matt Busche | 05m |
71 percent of users ride 2G or 3G on cheap five year old Android devices so optimize for slow networks not desktops. Audit with Google Lighthouse (performance… | ||
| Ignite - What I Learned From a Dress an On-Call Nightmare | Jay Gordon | 05m |
BuzzFeed experiences a viral spike tied to the Dress that drives 670,000 active users and breaks the site: a NoSQL-backed voting app autoscaling handles votes… | ||
| Ignite - How to Use Scrum Poker to Slay Estimations | Laura B. Janusek | 05m |
Planning Poker and simple spreadsheets generate 196 story points for a large release, but real team velocity runs from 20 to an effective 17 points/week, plus… | ||
| The Dark Side of Scale | Deepak Giridharagopal | 38m |
Argues that “scale” is often a hollow virtue and shows concrete examples: a small ag startup runs successfully on Gmail+Dropbox+laptop instead of elaborate… | ||
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