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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic Engineering: Working With AI, Not Just Using It | AI Engineer Europe 2026 | 2026-04-08 |
Coding agents move from autocomplete to autonomous collaborators that can execute tasks, touch files and produce pull requests, and teams report roughly 30%… | ||
| Consumers To Contributors: Open Source As a Competitive Advantage | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 | 2022-10-24 |
Shows data that 30–50% of shipped proprietary software is open source and a 2022 survey that names access to innovation as the top reason firms choose OSS… | ||
| As Strong As the Weakest Link: Securing the Software Supply Chain | Cloud Native Security Conference North America 2021 | 2021-10-12 |
SolarWinds compromise shows attackers breach a vendor’s CI/CD build infrastructure, inject DLLs (Sunspot) then deliver a trojanized payload (Sunburst), remove… | ||
| Remote Right: How to Thrive in a Post-Office World | GOTOpia Chicago 2021 | 2021-04-20 |
GitLab runs 1,300 people across 65+ countries and claims an 8,000-page handbook as the single source of truth, uses 25- or 50-minute meetings to prevent… | ||
| As Strong as the Weakest Link | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
Securing the Software Supply Chain
The Solarwinds breach at the end of 2020 is an event that we won't truly understand the breadth and depth of for some time… | ||
| Commercial Open Source Business Models: GitLab’s Bet on Buyer-based Open Core | All Things Open 2020 | 2020-10-19 |
GitLab presents a clear claim: buyer-based open core—placing paid features by likely purchaser—drives sustainable revenue after iterative failures with… | ||
| All I need to know about DevOps I learned from XKCD | DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 | 2020-09-01 |
Claims that XKCD maps recurring DevOps realities: expect failures like left-pad removal, prioritize developer productivity over maintaining tools, and plan for… | ||
| I’m not technical enough to give this talk | DevRelCon Earth 2020 | 2020-06-30 |
Claim: no CS degree and never been paid to write code does not block a career in developer relations. The talk shows the concrete route: writing tutorials… | ||
| GitLab: The Asynchronous Enterprise | GOTO Chicago 2020 | 2020-04-27 |
GitLab claims an all‑remote model scales: growth from 9 to 1,200 team members in 65 countries with zero offices and a near-$3B valuation. Collaboration runs… | ||
| The Asynchronous Enterprise | JSConf Hawaiʻi 2020 | 2020-02-05 |
Claims concrete procedures and outcomes GitLab runs fully remote with zero offices and grows from 9 people in 2014 to ~1,200 across 65 countries by 2020 and a… | ||
| Failure is not an option... | DevOpsDays Baltimore 2019 | 2019-04-24 |
Recounts concrete engineering choices from Apollo 11: the Apollo guidance computer with ~1 MHz CPU, core rope memory woven by seamstresses, and 420,837 lines… | ||
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