{unscripted} 2021
who it's for
site reliability engineers, platform engineers, devops engineers, ci/cd engineers, engineering managers, observability engineers, infrastructure engineers
topics
continuous integration pipelines; test driven development; feature flag management; canary deployments and rollbacks; OpenTelemetry agent and collector; distributed tracing in Kubernetes; Terraform workspaces for multi-env; GitOps deploys for sidecars; Drone CI as service; autoscaling CI runners; cost-aware observability ingestion; chaos and performance testing non-production
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Testing Times in 2021: Delivering with Confidence | Dave Farley | 46m |
Argues for a deployment pipeline that produces a release candidate and evaluates releasability across commit acceptance and production stages using test driven… | ||
| Building Confidence Together: Continuous Integration & Testing | Ashley Kim, Jenna Charlton, Ken Angell, Jon Bonafato, Stewart Platt | 32m |
CI work focuses on concrete changes: move validation into pull requests, run linters and a Python static type checker as pre-commit hooks so failures surface… | ||
| A Crawl, Walk, Run Story of CI/CD | Mathieu Leclerc | 22m |
A practical CI/CD pipeline uses drone for CI and harness for CD, with canary deployments, Datadog log verifications, and intelligent rollbacks tied to… | ||
| Scaling to Meet Today's Software Delivery Workloads | Jim Sheldon | 27m |
Meltwater runs Drone as a service since June 2018, executing about 1,000–1,300 pipelines per weekday backed by MySQL (not sqlite). Runners intentionally set to… | ||
| Observing the Future | Bob Chen | 14m |
Claims a vendor‑neutral observability stack built on OpenTelemetry agent + collector that sends traces logs and metrics into Kafka for routing and in‑flight… | ||
| More Power, Less Pain: Building an Internal Platform with CNCF Tools | David Sudia | 23m |
A production internal platform on Kubernetes for a nine‑person org with a three‑person ops team, built and running with concrete choices: cert manager for TLS… | ||
| Synchronization of Infrastructure Provisioning & Application Deployments | Bogdan Catana | 19m |
Centralized Terraform code uses terraform workspaces to map staging and prod into one S3 backend and avoid repo sprawl while Harness runs a single templatized… | ||
| Observability: Building Confidence & Answering the What, Where, How | Jayne Groll, Charity Majors, Chris Riley | 35m |
Defines observability as being able to understand any system state from outside and contrasts it with monitoring, names Honeycomb, Prometheus, Datadog and… | ||
| Forget Production: Observability a Non-Production Necessity | Shlomo Bielak | 13m |
Claims that observability belongs in non-production by building impermanent non-production pipelines that spin up prod‑duplicates, slam them with 10x load… | ||
| Pragmatic Incident Response: Lessons Learned from Failures | Bobby Ross | 15m |
Advice is specific: run focused postmortems for small incidents and track the ratio of retros to declared incidents (ten minor incidents with two retros is a… | ||
| Simplifying and Scaling Software Delivery | Jyoti Bansal | 44m |
Claims a CI/CD platform that uses AI/ML to pick tests and run only what matters: a demo with 40 junit tests→1 selected cuts a sample cycle by five minutes and… | ||
| Empowerment in the Software Delivery Lifecycle | Alan Shimmel, Cheryl Razzell, Jenny Donnelly, Martin Reynolds | 52m |
Concrete practices decide whether to watch: a job family matrix that maps IC and leadership paths, explicit parallel IC and manager tracks, running hackathons… | ||
| Increasing Visibility with Cloud Costs | Shelby Levin | 19m |
Relativity instruments Kubernetes spend with Harness, beta testing and shaping features like perspectives, recommendations, budgets and anomaly detection so… | ||
| Every Dollar Counts: Shifting Cost Management Left | Ken Clark | 17m |
Argues that cost control improves when organizations shift cost management left, embedding cost signals into build and release pipelines and pull requests so… | ||
| Building Monetary Confidence in the Cloud | Bhargav Brahmbhatt, Chaya Tanna, Corey Wagehoft | 43m |
Teams moving VMs to Kubernetes report real results: a homemade containerization calculator models spend and forecasts savings, a misprovisioned DB once costs… | ||
| Reducing Release Risk with Feature Flag Management | Sam Hall | 14m |
Company replaces risky deploys with feature flags using Harness to serve multi-variant frontend experiments on a jQuery kiosk view and to avoid blue‑green… | ||
| Leveraging Distributed Tracing in Kubernetes & Containerized Environments | Chinmay Gaikwad | 14m |
Distributed tracing plus auto-instrumentation in Kubernetes and containers claims to cut noise by building service maps and letting teams correlate metrics… | ||
| More Isn't Better | Mike Koleno | 19m |
Claim: abundance of tool choice slows cloud transformation and increases regret. Recommendation: pick multi‑purpose, cross‑cloud, simple solutions. Examples… | ||
| Purposeful Transformation With Data-Driven Decisions | Juan Orlandini | 16m |
Claim: IT must adopt a developer-forward stance and treat platform work as an enduring product rather than finite projects. The team shows value by using value… | ||
| DevOps Culture at Amazon | Serge Shevchenko | 21m |
Amazon describes a concrete DevOps practice: you build it you run it with small two‑pizza teams, microservices each owning their data and APIs, and multiple… | ||
| Forget Production: Observability a Non-Production Necessity | Shlomo Bielak | 13m |
Argues observability belongs in ephemeral preprod systems not just production and shows a CI/CD pipeline that creates impermanent non-production environments… | ||
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