Andrew Clay Shafer
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where they keep going back
- DevOpsDays Istanbul2 editions2019–2024
- Velocity2 editions2010–2016
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on a stage with
- Alex Hidalgoonce
- Colin Humphreysonce
- Dr Nic Williamsonce
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who talks about the same things
- John Willis31 talks
- Kalle Sirkesalo9 talks
- Kat Cosgrove19 talks
- Mike Long10 talks
- Russ Miles22 talks
- Bill Weiss3 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | DevOpsDays Cairo 2025 | 2025-09-27 |
Global DevOps community faces concrete tradeoffs: AI boosts individual productivity (Google quotes ~25–30% generated/accepted code) yet increases instability… | ||
| Keynote Speaker | DevOpsDays Istanbul 2024 | 2024-04-20 |
Argues that decades-old sociotechnical research explains why buying tools fails: 1950s coal‑mine trials show short‑wall teams beat automated long‑wall plans… | ||
| The Timeless way of DevOps | DevOpsDays Bogotá 2023 | 2023-10-20 |
Argues that durable DevOps comes from socio-technical alignment not tools alone, tracing 1950s coal-mine studies and Deming to modern practice; cites Jeff… | ||
| Learn Sociotechnical Systems The Hard Way | devopsdays Amsterdam 2023 | 2023-06-21 |
Walks the history from 1950s British coal mines to modern serverless and argues shortwall vs longwall shows autonomous cross‑functional teams beat narrow task… | ||
| More Buzzwords Won't Help: The Long History of DevOps Failures | GOTO Chicago 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
Argues that repeated DevOps-era failures come from automating technology without changing work design: 1950s British coal studies show mechanization lowers… | ||
| Hell Is Other Platforms | SREcon23 Americas | 2023-03-21 |
Argues that platforms inevitably appear and one-size-fits-all SRE/devops prescriptions fail, citing AWS EC2, the SRE book and NIST service models as concrete… | ||
| SRE as She Is Spoke | SREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2022-10-25 |
Argues SRE is a platform role that sits between infrastructure and product software, not just a label; traces origin to 2006 Vogel and 2009 devops, cites… | ||
| Change is Hard - Securing the Future Today | Cloud Native Security Conference North America 2021 | 2021-10-12 |
Argues security is a socio-technical problem and the practical path is building a shared platform that balances innovation and efficiency — the scope economy —… | ||
| Keynote Presentation Balancing Core Conflicts A DevOps Story | OWASP Global AppSec Virtual 2020 | 2020-10-22 |
Chronicle of concrete practices and wins not slogans: history of borg paper instrumentation that surfaces thousands of metrics, Puppet and EC2 automations that… | ||
| Closing Keynote | DevOpsDays Istanbul 2019 | 2019-09-19 |
Central claim: optimizing human performance and experience operating software matters more than cycling through tools or buzzwords. Recommends reading the SRE… | ||
| What is DevOps and why should you care? | DevOpsDays Tampa Bay 2019 | 2019-06-21 |
Argues that DevOps means aligning incentives across dev and ops, not renaming orgs; cites “ten deploys a day” (2009) and Amazon’s >1 deploy/second as outcomes… | ||
| Elemental devops | DevOpsDays Chicago 2018 | 2018-10-17 |
Argues DevOps is about five concrete elements — culture, automation, metrics, sharing and continuous improvement — and maps them to practice with examples… | ||
| Bringing Google Customer Reliability Engineering to Cloud Foundry | Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 | 2017-06-13 |
Google runs a Customer Reliability Engineering program that reviews Pivotal Cloud Foundry on GCP with the goal of four nines availability, performing deep… | ||
| The End of the Beginning | DevOpsDays Rockies 2017 | 2017-04-10 |
Argues that DevOps is proven by specifics: Cloud Foundry and Puppet work reduce human-hours growth versus old ops, Google’s SRE practices codify embracing… | ||
| Transforming how the world operates software | Velocity 2016 New York | 2016-09-20 |
Pivotal sells a playbook that packages lessons from the big web to modernize Fortune 500 tooling, processes, and mindsets, claiming outcomes of faster, safer… | ||
| Devops, microservices and platforms, oh my! | Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 | 2015-05-11 |
Argues that DevOps, continuous delivery and microservices are one evolving phenomenon and that a platform is the actual enabler: examples include a custom… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Buildpacks and Containers for Cloud Foundry | Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 | 2015-05-11 |
Debate over whether Cloud Foundry should treat containers as packaged images or as kernel-level process isolation focuses on concrete tradeoffs: buildpacks… | ||
| "Change Management: A Scientific Classification" | Velocity 2010 | 2010-06-22 |
Classifies change management into a spectrum: manual live edits, heavy approval/sign-off, ITIL-style process, scripted automation, and full infrastructure as… | ||
| Practical Puppet: Systems Building Systems | MountainWest RubyConf 2009 | 2009-03-13 |
Launches an EC2 AMI using user-data that runs Puppet to install Ruby, gems, MySQL, Apache + Passenger and a Rails app; the AMI build runs about 15 minutes… | ||
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