DevOpsDays Seattle 2018
2018-04-24..2018-04-25
Seattle, United States
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Taking Human Performance Seriously in Software | John Allspaw | 34m |
Argues that outages are cognitive problems not just code problems, using line of representation to show operators act on keyhole views of systems and cognitive… | ||
| Moving From A Monolith To An API Economy At Columbia | Scott Nasello | 28m |
Columbia moves to a public-cloud-first Azure model and builds an open data platform of microservices and APIs, using Service Bus, Event Hub, Azure Functions… | ||
| You’re So Empathetic, You Probably Know This Talk’s Not About You | Sarah Hagan | 30m |
Presents concrete steps: take a psychometrically valid personality test like DISC (140 questions, ~10 minutes; D/I/S/C axes) or CliftonStrengths (top 5 of 34)… | ||
| Can You Keep A Secret? Or Privacy In The Digital Age | Jane Prusakova | 26m |
Computers and IoT continuously create and store location, purchase, biometric and behavioral metadata that, when cross‑processed, reidentifies “anonymous”… | ||
| Leadership Lessons From The Agile Manifesto | Anjuan Simmons | 31m |
Connects each Agile value to a concrete leadership rule: preserve dignity at all costs (a Slack bacon joke offends a Malaysian teammate, results in a posted… | ||
| Mean Time To Relationship V. Mean Time Between Fallout | Aaron Aldrich | 05m |
Argues that optimizing for MTTR over MTBF in human systems reduces long‑term harm, because complex social systems have no single root cause and rigid avoidance… | ||
| How 500 People Changed Their Delivery Culture | Ravi Kalaga | 05m |
Started with a 3 day 40 people Value Stream Mapping that shows a three month release cycle, then pilots a Factory of the Future: build a small automated… | ||
| Buzzword Bingo | Dawn Parzych | 05m |
Argument: buzzwords obscure concrete meaning and slow problem solving; specific examples include calling modernization digital transformation when it simply… | ||
| Fail Gloriously | Steven Lattin | 05m |
Argues that selling infrastructure automation requires a vivid end-to-end stack deployment in sub 2 minutes as proof, not a cautious MVP; frames… | ||
| Fear Of Flying | Tom McLaughlin | 27m |
Argues that handing low-level work to AWS often improves safety and frees teams to focus on product metrics, with concrete numbers: Boston–Seattle driving fuel… | ||
| DevOps In A Cloud Native World | Michael Ducy | 30m |
Argues that cloud native is an extension of DevOps where automation and orchestration are baked into platforms so teams stop fighting infrastructure and focus… | ||
| From Developing Code To Developing People | Doug Ireton | 24m |
Transition after 24 years in engineering leads to concrete practices: weekly one-on-ones, 5-minute debriefs after client meetings, and delegating messy… | ||
| Kubernetes Is A Platform Platform | Joe Beda | 26m |
Kubernetes positions itself as a platform for building platforms: it is an API server + etcd + controllers core where controllers run reconciliation loops and… | ||
| Change Management For Humans | Tiffany Longworth | 25m |
Uses the ADCAR model to map concrete steps: do stakeholder interviews, surface emotional hooks called Tigers and Puppies, then deliver targeted knowledge and… | ||
| Moving 75,000 Engineers To DevOps On The Public Cloud | Sam Guckenheimer | 33m |
Describes moving ~75,000 (now ~80,000) internal engineers onto a single One Engineering System (OneES/VSTS) that enforces branch+pull-request flow with ~80% PR… | ||
| Transform Your Security Practices With DevOps | Paul C Czarkowski | 25m |
Describes converting thousands of manual SSH checks across several thousand servers into automated ansible remediation plus InSpec audits run from Jenkins… | ||
| Design Patterns For Efficient DevOps Processes | Byron Schaller, Rebecca Fitzhugh | 18m |
Covers concrete patterns: run value stream mapping to document every handoff, measure cycle time vs wait time and run separate sessions per role so hidden work… | ||
| The Power Of Effective Networking | Donnell Baker | 05m |
Shows concrete steps and measurable benefits: companies lose up to $62.4M (large) or about $400K (small) per year from poor networking, and internal social… | ||
| #Serverless + #Devops = BFF | Ed Anderson | 05m |
RealSelf moves from EC2 to AWS Lambda for operations automation, first attempt in 2016 fails, then decommissioned last VM for automation in mid‑2017 and three… | ||
| Bulding A Company Culture, For Profit Or Not | David Awad | 05m |
Describes a practical culture playbook: choose a mission, codify clear core values and be willing to sacrifice profit to protect them, hire with a written… | ||
| Lessons From An Undercover Boss | Sarah Shewell | 05m |
Led a full DevOps redo twice: first as a manager that lands a five‑star app after four years, then as an individual contributor on a harder‑architecture team… | ||
| How FIDO U2F Security Keys Work | Jen Tong | 30m |
Explains how FIDO U2F replaces OTPs with public‑key auth stored on a hardware dongle, using a key handle and per‑site public key bound to the browser origin… | ||
| Automated Performance Testing In Preproduction | Billy Hoffman | 40m |
Shows how to hook open source tools into CI to gate releases: spin up webpagetest on a staging build, run headless browsers (or Puppeteer/Selenium scripts)… | ||
| Who Are Your Alerts For? | Ren Lee | 32m |
Built a custom alerting layer on Influx that stages new alerts in git for a week and enforces fine‑tuning, with per-alert frequency knobs and a subscription… | ||
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