DevOpsDays Seattle 2016
2016-05-12..2016-05-13
Seattle, United States
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who it's for
devops engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, infrastructure engineers, security and compliance professionals, community organizers
topics
Kubernetes container clusters; metrics and monitoring at scale; A3 problem solving; cognitive biases in decision making; hybrid cloud operations; on-call and weekend work policies; enterprise DevOps community building; DevOps and IT audit compliance; cluster scaling strategies; thinking like an operating system; big data architecture and practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| My First Year at Chef: Measuring All the Things | Nicole Forsgren | 33m |
A new metrics culture starts with an one‑page company scorecard mapping daily work to business goals, uses monthly team‑lead interviews as an MVP to measure… | ||
| The Power of A3 Thinking in Action | Ben Rockwood | 27m |
Claims that A3 Report is the engine of lean and shows how to encode the PDSA cycle into a one‑page thinking process, with concrete steps: problem statement… | ||
| Understanding Cognitive Bias Found In Judgement & Choice | Jason Hand | 31m |
Claims that fast decision pressure produces predictable cognitive errors and that System One/System Two thinking explains why; live exercises show most people… | ||
| Living in a Hybrid World | Courtney Kissler | 31m |
Modernizes the Nordstrom product page from classic ASP into a hybrid stack using AWS, CloudFormation, Go, PowerShell and Windows CI/CD pipelines; teams own… | ||
| Why Weekends Matter | Dominica DeGrandis | 05m |
A vendor asks to exclude weekends from lead-time metrics so a team’s performance review looks better and the proposal claims reduced cycle time; the concrete… | ||
| DevOps at | Chad Buffett | 05m |
Starts from no API three years ago and now runs 100,000+ images, 19,000+ activities, 1,000 destinations and 4,000+ suppliers while delivering hundreds of… | ||
| The First 50 Nodes... | Scott Nasello | 05m |
A Windows‑centric enterprise adopts a minimum viable process and focuses on measurable wins: 0 to 250 artifacts goal becomes a concrete target and hits 500… | ||
| Everything You Always Wanted To Know ... | Oguz Pastirmaci | 06m |
Used concrete steps: learned Scrum and Kanban and starts attending early planning and five‑minute datacenter meetings so ops sees requests before rollout… | ||
| How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company | Michael Coté | 06m |
Claims drawn from work at Dell BMC and Pivotal and corporate strategy outline concrete tactics: bring your own tools to bypass slow centralized stacks, recruit… | ||
| Combat Chaos-Driven Delivery By Thinking Like An OS | Julia Wester | 05m |
Teams map OS scheduling to delivery: blend priority and round-robin policies, dedicate fixed capacity to work classes and reserve flex generalists, and break… | ||
| How DevOps Could’ve Saved The SuperSonics | Adam Lefkowitz | 06m |
Claim: Better alignment and engineering practices could have changed the outcome — owners seek public money, city refuses, owners sell and the team relocates… | ||
| Being An Introvert At A Conference Is Not As Hellish... | JJ Asghar | 05m |
Describes concrete tactics learned over two years that aim to make big conferences manageable: bring a portable card game like Exploding Kittens to start… | ||
| An Unlikely Happy Couple - DevOps and IT Audit? | Joanne Molesky | 29m |
Claims that continuous delivery and DevOps reduce organizational risk by design and that auditors can be satisfied by concrete controls and evidence. Recommend… | ||
| Building an Enterprise DevOps Community | Pauly Comtois | 29m |
Built an enterprise DevOps community across ten business units using an opt‑in chat platform that sparks cross‑function rooms and ad‑hoc teams, not just a tool… | ||
| Past The Hype: A Better Way To Think About Big Data | Michael Kauffman | 34m |
Claims Big Data is five concrete technologies not a buzzword and shows working examples: language data powers Marriott and litigation NLP insights, media data… | ||
| How Container Clusters, like Kubernetes, ... | Brendan Burns | 33m |
Kubernetes (called in the description “How Container Clusters, like Kubernetes, Change Operations”) is claimed to decouple apps from machines so operators… | ||
| Understanding Cognitive Bias Found In Judgement & Choice | Jason Hand | 31m |
Argues that reducing mean time to repair matters more than preventing every failure, cites Kahneman’s System 1/System 2 framework and shows concrete tests (the… | ||
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