DevOpsDays Rockies 2017
who it's for
devops engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, release engineers, security engineers, software developers
topics
commit checklists and git; CI with Jenkins and Travis; ChatOps with Slack and HipChat; BOSH deployments and manifests; sidecar patterns and service mesh; deploy-ready build metrics; mean time to recover; feature toggles and rollbacks; transparent outage handling; infrastructure as code with Terraform; developer laptop production service definitions; shift-left security practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Fearless DevOps: Committing to Code | Jessica Breckenridge | 29m |
Concrete checklist for committing code: get everything into use Git repos, wire up CI (Jenkins/Travis) so merges and tests run automatically, and push… | ||
| Urban Legends: What You Code Makes You Who You Are | PJ Hagerty | 23m |
Claims counter common myths with concrete examples: Ruby ≠ Rails and large companies like Zendesk Hulu and Twitter run Ruby at scale; PHP runs 80% of the web… | ||
| BOSH: The Simple Solution for Complex Systems | Kira Boyle | 28m |
BOSH claims reproducible, fast deployments of large systems by using versioned stem cell images, versioned releases with uploaded blobs and packages, and a… | ||
| You Can’t buy DevOps, but you may Need to Sell it | Ken Mugrage | 28m |
Cites the State of DevOps paper showing 24x faster recovery, 3x lower change-failure rate and 2.2x better employee referral, and links those to concrete… | ||
| ChatOps as Change Agent | Scott Nasello | 05m |
Claims that ChatOps drives onboarding, reduces friction, and sparks cross team work with concrete moves: a wrapper around PowerShell scripts to make day‑one… | ||
| Metrics That Matter | Alison Polton-Simon | 05m |
Claims concrete metrics that change practice: track the number of deploy ready builds to force smaller releasable chunks, measure commit-to-feedback cycle time… | ||
| Many Hands Make Light Work | Matthew Boeckman | 05m |
Claims DevOps actually floods supply by solving two bottlenecks: people and infrastructure, with the core assertion that cloud removes infrastructure… | ||
| What Problem Are You Trying to Solve? | Matt Getty | 05m |
Stop confusing vague goals with actionable fixes: pick a measurable target, not “make it faster.” The talk insists on concrete claims like reduce login service… | ||
| The End of the Beginning | Andrew Clay Shafer | 33m |
Argues that DevOps is proven by specifics: Cloud Foundry and Puppet work reduce human-hours growth versus old ops, Google’s SRE practices codify embracing… | ||
| Why Sidecars? Moving the Stack out of the Monolith | Greg Poirier | 32m |
Argues that the useful claim is concrete: extract common infrastructure into sidecars so functionality is reusable, localized to the host and isolated per… | ||
| The Care and Monitoring of You | Mary Thengvall | 06m |
Claims that a type 1 diabetic carries MedicAlert and continuous-monitoring gear and that a service dog that wakes for low blood sugar is certified and travels… | ||
| Infrastructure Extensibility at Home and DevOps | Josh Atwell | 05m |
Argues that APIs and SDKs let teams code infrastructure and folds device examples into operations: a Nest thermostat and a Ring doorbell that cuts out at 4:30… | ||
| Using production service definitions on developer laptops | Leigh Capili | 05m |
Claims that running production service definitions on a laptop removes environment drift and lets developers exercise the same scheduling, failures, and… | ||
| How Working in Games Helps me Work in DevOps | Margaret Gourlay | 06m |
Claim: real-world DevOps maps onto MMO raid roles — DPS = developers, healers = QA, tanks = sysadmins — so coordination and role discipline matter more than… | ||
| Let’s Play a Game! | Adam Zolyak | 06m |
Games scheduled as meetings force concrete tradeoffs and surface reasons: use bang for the buck to pair value vs cost with everyone taking turns, use buy a… | ||
| Handling a Major Outage Transparently | Connor Shea | 21m |
GitLab suffers an accidental production DB deletion that loses six hours of data for issues, comments and merge requests but spares repositories; incident… | ||
| Shifting Left Securely | Matt Stratton | 31m |
Argues that security and compliance must be treated as quality by moving tests left into the pipeline, versioning the workflow and running checks locally so… | ||
| ‘Failure’ as Success: The Mindset, the Methods, and the Landmines | J. Paul Reed | 41m |
Argues that success is not just lack of outages but how teams respond, and that the one controllable variable in complex systems is reaction. Cites Knight… | ||
| Change management (Keep it Simple, Stupid!) | Chris McDermott | 28m |
Creates a lightweight change process centered on a JIRA Kanban board with a new CMB issue type that requires a detailed change plan, test plan and detailed… | ||
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