Jeff Smith
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- Devopsdays Boston6 editions2015–2020
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- Gerald Venzl12 talks
- Ron Ekins5 talks
- Bob Quillin4 talks
- Michael Nygard11 talks
- Leonid Igolnik14 talks
- Adrienne Braganza Tacke26 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The Art of Asking Questions | Write the Docs Prague 2022 | 2022-09-11 |
Argues that curiosity is a job requirement and gives three actionable pillars: confidence, discernment, tenacity. Recommends concrete tactics — narrow… | ||
| Cutting Cloud Costs in COVID-19! | DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 | 2020-09-01 |
Claims a 30% cut in two weeks without buying reserved instances by combining three tactics: buy reserved instances cautiously, schedule shutdowns 7pm–7am… | ||
| Ethics in Computing: When Right and Wrong Stop Being Obvious Ethics in computing sounds like a fairly straight forward proposition at first glance | DevOpsDays Chicago 2019 | 2019-08-27 |
A series of concrete examples drives the argument: a missing teen’s phone is pinged only after 36 hours because police and the telecom delay a court-ordered… | ||
| How to Make On-Call More Humane…..and human | DevOpsDays Chicago 2018 | 2018-10-17 |
Claim: on-call becomes actually humane by changing what alerts say and who gets them. Use roleplay alerts to rehearse real wakeups, include… | ||
| Hacking Human Systems | DevOpsDays Chicago 2017 | 2017-09-12 |
Argues that failures usually come from human systems not tech and defines concrete levers: identify measurable stocks (pain, backlog, known risks), map… | ||
| How to Elevate Your Contributions as an Ops Engineer | DevOpsDays Seattle 2017 | 2017-04-26 |
Claim: $70,000 salary bump after the talk and concrete examples that back it up not vague career platitudes. Shows a two hour ops change that reduced effort… | ||
| Dungeons and Dragons....and DevOps | devopsdays Chicago 2016 | 2016-08-30 |
This draws a direct checklist: two essential roles — dungeon master and change agent — who build the party, keep momentum, and set the campaign story; start… | ||
| DevOps - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | GOTO Chicago 2016 | 2016-05-23 |
Five years into DevOps at GrubHub, SREs are embedded in stream teams with a dotted reporting line, producing closer engagement and business-level monitoring… | ||
| Brainstorming Failure | devopsdays Chicago 2015 | 2015-08-30 |
Describes applying Failure Mode Effects Analysis to production monitoring at Grub Hub: assemble cross‑functional teams, map the process, brainstorm every… | ||
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