DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2017
2017-05-16..2017-05-17
Salt Lake City, United States
[DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2016, DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2017, DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2018]
who it's for
devops engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, software developers, engineering managers, technical writers
topics
push train deployment model; open source infrastructure as code; scaling distributed systems with limited trust; devops culture and practices; runbooks and operations documentation; human trust in continuous deployment; ci/cd pipelines for full stack applications; production testing via monitoring and observability; cross-functional team collaboration; incident response coordination
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Push Train | Dan McKinley | 25m |
Etsy-era ops deliberately destroys slow rituals, deletes flaky Selenium suites, and replaces heavyweight gates with fast unit tests (PHPUnit), ramped rollouts… | ||
| The Open Sourcing of Infrastructure | Elizabeth K. Joseph | 43m |
Argues that actually releasing infrastructure code lets other projects reproduce entire stacks: cites OpenStack CI and an open-sourced research lab that… | ||
| How Can You Scale It If You Don't Trust It | David N. Blank-Edelman | 24m |
Claims a concrete approach: use guardrails that enforce role-based access and resource quotas so developers get limited, auditable power without full ops… | ||
| Zen and the Art of Devops | Gwen Dobson | 43m |
Claims specific wins from automation and culture: Puppet study: 3x fewer failures 50% fewer security issues and measurable faster delivery and reduced… | ||
| Local DevOps Panel Discussion | Mike Davis, Gwen Dobson, John Esser, Wes Novack, Corban Raun | 44m |
Panelists report concrete payoffs and concrete failures: embedding ops on dev teams embed ops with devs produces immediate empathy and fewer handoffs, while… | ||
| Fear of the Bus: DevOps and Docs | Heidi Waterhouse | 29m |
Argues for concrete practices: classify documentation into three categories (critical runbooks, repeatable processes, and secrets) so teams know what to back… | ||
| Human Trust in Continuos Deployment | Mark Bennett | 26m |
Claim: human trust matters more than tooling for CI/CD. Teams build a continuous-deployment pipeline that ships 20–30 deployments per week, add a Jenkins… | ||
| CI/CD on the Microsoft Stack | Rob Richardson | 31m |
Claim: a working CI/CD pipeline on the Microsoft stack in about half hour. Shows concrete pipeline: commit to GitHub into source control, TeamCity runs NuGet… | ||
| We're All in This Together | Anne Nichols | 27m |
Argues that reducing handoffs and friction requires concrete practices not platitudes: educate, define, compromise. Recommends embedding QA on dev teams… | ||
| Keynote | Ross Clanton | 43m |
Argues that trust between business and IT is the central failure mode and backs it with concrete fixes: replace front‑door contracting and waterfall queues… | ||
| Production Testing through Monitoring | Robert Treat | 28m |
Argues that testing alone fails at scale and actual production monitoring must prove the business is working not just servers. Shows concrete checks: trace… | ||
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