Chris Ayers
where else to find them
website:https://chris-ayers.com
github:codebytes
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mastodon:@Chrisayers@hachyderm.io
linkedin:chris-l-ayers
instagram:chris.l.ayers
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit2 editions2023–2024
- NDC Security2 editions2023–2026
- NDC Oslo2 editions2023–2025
all 12 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Steven Murawski11 talks
- Erwin Staal9 talks
- April Edwards17 talks
- Rob Richardson81 talks
- Damian Brady33 talks
- Peter De Tender12 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| MITRE ATT&CK for Developers | NDC Security 2026 | 2026-03-02 |
MITRE ATT&CK complements OWASP by mapping real adversary behavior (14 tactics, 200+ techniques) to concrete development controls: use managed identities and… | ||
| Modern .NET Configuration Practices | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Covers concrete practices: use JSON, environment variables, command-line, Azure App Config and Key Vault as configuration providers; bind hierarchical settings… | ||
| Resilient by Design | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Argues that resilience starts with concrete numbers and policies — SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, RPO/RTO — and operational practices like load testing, chaos game… | ||
| Modern NET Configuration Practices | Build Stuff 2025 | 2025-12-03 |
Code-heavy demos and GitHub samples show modern .NET unifying JSON, env vars, command-line, Azure Key Vault, and Azure App Configuration feature flags into a… | ||
| Modern .NET Configuration Practices | NDC Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
Demos and code live on GitHub and VS Code, showing concrete migrations: replace baked-in web.config with layered JSON, environment variables, IConfiguration… | ||
| Resilient by Design | NDC Oslo 2025 | 2025-05-19 |
Practical Azure resilience: defines SLIs/SLOs/SLA and RPO/RTO, cites New Relic’s 77 hours median downtime and large outage costs, and shows concrete… | ||
| The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces | NDC Porto 2024 | 2024-10-14 |
Dev Containers plus GitHub Codespaces deliver reproducible development environments using Docker and VS Code, with practical details: 60 free hours per… | ||
| The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces | CPH DevFest 2024 | 2024-08-26 |
Live demos show Dev Containers + GitHub Codespaces reproducibly spin up full dev environments from a repo in minutes (first pull 3–5 min, subsequent launches… | ||
| CI/CD with Github Actions | PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2024 | 2024-04-08 |
Gives concrete recipes: YAML snippets in .github/workflows, how workflow_dispatch and event filters trigger runs, and how runners, matrix builds, artifacts and… | ||
| Unraveling the Differences | PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2024 | 2024-04-08 |
Compares SRE, DevOps and platform engineering by giving concrete practices and tools: SLOs/SLIs with an example 99.95 SLO and an error budget of ~20 minutes… | ||
| .NET in a Box: Containerizing .NET Applications | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
Shows concrete steps to package and ship .NET apps: use net publish --publish-container or multistage Dockerfiles, push to Azure Container Registry or Docker… | ||
| Kubernetes Resiliency | NDC Oslo 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
Covers concrete ways to make Kubernetes resilient with Azure AKS: use multiple availability zones, split system and user node pools with taints/tolerations… | ||
| CICD with Github Actions | PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2023 | 2023-04-24 |
Forty-five minutes of hands‑on detail showing how GitHub Actions runs CI/CD: YAML rules, workflow dispatch and event triggers, jobs vs steps, hosted runners… | ||
| Continuous Load Testing with GitHub Actions | PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2023 | 2023-04-24 |
Uses GitHub Actions to run JMeter scripts against an app deployed by Bicep/ARM, invoking the Azure Load Testing service as the controller so nodes auto‑scale… | ||
| CI/CD with GitHub Actions | Python Web Conf 2023 | 2023-03-13 |
Step-by-step guide to GitHub Actions that shows real YAML examples, GitHub-hosted runners (Ubuntu/Mac/Windows), and how workflows use workflow_dispatch… | ||
| Securely deploying Infrastructure as Code | NDC Security 2023 | 2023-01-16 |
Demonstrates how to automatically scan Terraform with tfsec, terrascan, checkov, surface results in PRs via JUnit uploads, and block bad commits with… | ||
| CI/CD with Github Actions | Conf42 DevSecOps 2022 | 2022-12-01 |
Shows exact YAML locations (.github/workflows), event triggers including workflow_dispatch and many webhook events, and runner details (GitHub-hosted images… | ||
| Git Good with Advanced Git | Automation + DevOps Summit 2021 | 2021-11-02 |
Shows Git internals and exact CLI plumbing used to manipulate them: creating blobs and trees with hash-object and storing objects in the .git/objects layout… | ||
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