John Willis
where else to find them
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- DevOpsDays Seattle2 editions2019–2024
- Devopsdays Boston2 editions2015–2020
- DevOps Enterprise Summit London2 editions2017–2018
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on a stage with
- Alan Shimelonce
- Drew Gutsteinonce
- Ian Amitonce
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who talks about the same things
- Kalle Sirkesalo9 talks
- Kat Cosgrove19 talks
- Baruch Sadogursky110 talks
- Mike Long10 talks
- Damian Brady33 talks
- Jason Yee30 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The vulnerability apocalypse: AI broke the security playbook | PlatformCon 2026 Live Day New York | 2026-06-25 |
AI now finds chains of exploits and fuzzes at orders-of-magnitude speed, outpacing human remediation and moving the bottleneck from discovery to fixing… | ||
| Learning from History: The Past as a Compass for Systems Engineers in the Age of AI | DevOpsDays Austin 2025 | 2025-05-01 |
A historical arc links early rule‑based systems and Deep Blue to modern transformers and agentic workflows while claiming practical evidence of rapid… | ||
| Dear CIO: Navigating the Shadows - GenAI's Promise, Peril, and the Path Forward | All Things Open 2024 | 2024-10-27 |
Argues that shadow AI is producing massive security holes and compounding technical debt by replicating cloud mistakes: hundreds of millions in brand damage… | ||
| From Deming to DevOps | IDPCON NYC 2024 | 2024-10-24 |
Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge maps to today’s DevOps and AI risk landscape: teams reuse Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and vector databases to move notebooks… | ||
| Deming to DevOps (Revisited) | DevOpsDays Antwerp 2024 - 15th Anniversary edition | 2024-09-04 |
Argues that DevOps traces to Deming’s statistical approach—statistical process control—and to 20th‑century physics ideas about non‑determinism, then maps… | ||
| Rethinking DevOps and DevSecOps with Generative AI: Insights | DevOpsDays Seattle 2024 | 2024-05-14 |
Claims that generative AI reshapes DevOps by treating LLMs as services needing orchestration with LangChain and LangSmith, using RAG and vector databases to… | ||
| Red Risk Experiment | devopsdays Amsterdam 2023 | 2023-06-21 |
A live reworking of the red bead experiment runs through 4,000 beads (3,200 white, 800 red) to show that random variation yields about ten defects per draw and… | ||
| The Operationalism of DevSecOps | DevOps Enterprise Summit Amsterdam 2023 | 2023-05-15 |
Argues that applying Bridgman/Deming operationalism fixes fuzzy DevSecOps metrics by forcing criteria, test, decision definitions; demonstrates using control… | ||
| Keynote - Automated Governance | DevOpsDays Boston 2020 | 2020-09-29 |
Joined Red Hat last year and describes a concrete DevOps automated governance reference: a seven‑stage pipeline of attestations tied to source control and… | ||
| Devops' Seven Deadly Diseases | DevOpsDays Seattle 2019 | 2019-04-23 |
Argues that seven organizational diseases (Invisible Work, Management System Toil, Tribal Knowledge, Misalignment of Incentives, Incongruent Organizational… | ||
| Containers and Next Gen Infrastructure Ecosystem | DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 | 2018-06-25 |
Enterprise teams still lack a container strategy while the ecosystem consolidates: runtimes are moving to runc runtime and CRI implementations like containerd… | ||
| The Divine and Felonious Nature of Cyber Security | swampUP 2018 | 2018-05-16 |
Claims that software supply chains are enormous and risky: 1.5M Java module downloads per week, 5M Node modules, ~31 billion Maven downloads a year with… | ||
| Devops - Almost 10 Years - What A Strange Long Trip It's Been (Keynote) | DevOpsDays NYC 2018 | 2018-01-18 |
A concise timeline of what changed and what actually worked: cfengine principles → Puppet replacing cfengine, Chef recipes and cookbooks enabling reusable… | ||
| DevOps: You Build It, You Secure It | DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017 | 2017-11-13 |
Argues that DevOps must add security across the pipeline with concrete practices: threat modeling, static analysis in CI, dynamic pen testing, IDE… | ||
| Better, Faster, Cheaper: What Does It Mean for Ops? | DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2017 | 2017-06-05 |
Claims concrete wins: 2000x faster deployments and 100–200x better reliability by combining DevOps practices with containers. Uses Docker workflows, image… | ||
| The Human factor of DevOps | DevOpsCon 2016 | 2016-12-05 |
Claim: high-performing organizations put a high value on human capital and convert it into measurable organizational performance rather than just adopting… | ||
| Immutable Awesomeness? | DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 | 2015-11-03 |
Argues that pairing containers with software supply‑chain practices reduces unplanned work by improving traceability and hygiene: shows apps average 106… | ||
| Docker for Managers | DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 | 2015-11-03 |
Container tech provisions in hundreds of milliseconds instead of minutes, yielding 10x–40x density versus VMs and enabling immutable delivery with identical… | ||
| State of the DevOps | devopsdays Chicago 2015 | 2015-08-30 |
Counts and measurements dominate: DevOps Days grows to about 30th devopsdays attendance and roughly 25 events a year; the DevOps Survey jumps from ~1,000… | ||
| DevOps Road Blocks | DevOps Enterprise Summit 2014 (San Francisco 2014) | 2014-10-28 |
Night Capital’s deployment error costs $400 million in three hours after a test flag activates one of eight servers, illustrating a catastrophic network is… | ||
| The DevOps of Everything | OWASP AppSecUSA 2014 | 2014-09-16 |
History and practical roadmap for taking DevOps beyond compute into network and storage, arguing for Chef and Puppet style abstractions, Git-driven configs… | ||
| Devops and Dr Deming’s 14 Points | Velocity New York 2014 | 2014-09-15 |
Fast, slide‑by‑slide mapping of Edward Deming's out of crisis 14 points onto DevOps practices with specific examples: cease dependency on inspection mapped to… | ||
| Cloudy Operations | OSCON 2010 Cloud Summit | 2010-07-22 |
Cloud does not magically include ops: providers supply VMs but not orchestration, config management or system integration, so teams must build provisioning… | ||
| Welcome | OSCON 2010 Cloud Summit | 2010-07-22 |
Opening frames cloud as an evolution: a collection of once-novel activities becoming utility services via an S‑curve from innovation to commodity, with CRM ->… | ||
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