DevOpsDays Vancouver 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Quintessence Anx Sensory Friendly Monitoring Keeping the Noise Down | Quintessence Anx | 26m |
Alerts cost about 25 minutes of focus per interruption (UC Irvine) and cause measurable quality loss like a half‑point drop on graded essays (George Mason), so… | ||
| Resilience Engineering | Nisan Haramati | 31m |
Maps direct and indirect dependencies, then applies isolation, redundancy and graceful degradation to limit failure blast radius. Uses destructive testing and… | ||
| Change Management for Humans | Tiffany Longworth | 28m |
Argues that changes fail unless they follow the CAR steps: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement. Describes doing stakeholder interviews, live… | ||
| Building Cost Visibility For Your Kubernetes Clusters | Garland Kan | 26m |
Kubernetes costs don’t appear on cloud bills so calculate them from pod resource allocations: tools read the API, multiply CPU/memory requests by unit prices… | ||
| Scrumming Solo No Scrum Master or Product Owner | Jessie Ye | 05m |
One team brings Scrum into DevOps by starting small: one person spends one day a week cleaning the backlog until knowledge spreads, then adds backlog grooming… | ||
| Tactical whimsey injection | Tiffany Longworth | 05m |
Kept a spreadsheet of consultants' travel preferences and added a "loll" column for gift triggers so sending baby bat pictures to someone stuck in Texas raises… | ||
| Mental models | Laura Maguire | 05m |
Two years of observational research of DevOps outage responses shows that expertise looks like admitting gaps not bluffing; teams that say “I didn't know it… | ||
| Architecture Guidance | Adron Hall | 37m |
Practical checklist for database reliability using Go: build single static binaries for easy distro, exploit goroutines to spin thousands of writers for load… | ||
| Retrospectives for Humans (the short form) | Courtney Eckhardt | 37m |
Uses the 1990 Lake Washington floating bridge collapse as a concrete example: five required failures (storm, open access holes, uneven water distribution… | ||
| You can't have a cluster*!$& without a cluster! | Kris Nova | 20m |
Explains why Kubernetes’ built-in watch primitive and controller/scheduler model deliver real resilience while also adding measurable complexity and risk… | ||
| Coordination | Laura Maguire | 37m |
Empirical work at Ohio State maps how continuous deployment, tool reliance (Slack/chatops), and third‑party dependencies create constant, hard‑to‑anticipate… | ||
| Everything you need to know about Kubernetes in 5 Minutes | JJ Asghar | 05m |
Claims core Kubernetes concepts in rapid form and shows concrete examples: containers → pods, a deployment with 2 replicas for rolling updates, nodes as… | ||
| Jenkins in the Cloud | Shane Gearon | 05m |
Migration moves Jenkins onto Kubernetes using the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a separate build cluster that talks to dev staging and prod. A custom pod… | ||
| Grafana Loki Log Aggregation for Incident Investigations | Callum Styan | 05m |
Loki is a log store that ties logs to Prometheus-style service discovery so logs and metrics share labels, letting investigations follow the exact instance… | ||
| DevOps for Startups | Amin Yazdani | 05m |
Claim: startups must adopt DevOps as a culture early to avoid scaling failures. Evidence: traditional shops have 20 or more engineering teams with separate… | ||
| Long-term Documentation Maintenance | Kenzie Woodbridge | 35m |
Organisation uses an ITSM-backed record system that tracks 584 resources (121 past review) and enforces review cycles to hit a ~90% reviewed target… | ||
| Digital Ethics in an Unethical Era | Sonia Gupta | 32m |
Argument traces digital ethics from Norbert Wiener and cybernetics to Luciano Floridi’s information ethics and shows why infrastructure choices matter… | ||
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