title	conference	date
«Zero Trust» is for Networks, Not Your Teams	GOTO Chicago 2023	2023-05-22
Argues that zero trust belongs to networks, not people, and that real reliability comes from people-based resilience defined as resilience is a verb with four… Talk on
The Journey From DevOps to Cloud Engineering	DevOpsDays London 2022	2022-09-29
Argues that Cloud Engineering is the natural evolution of DevOps, mapping CALMS onto build, deploy, manage practices and treating infrastructure and policy as… Talk on
Charting Your Own Course Through the Cloud Native Landscape	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022	2022-05-16
Defines a repeatable learning loop: collect, skim, narrow, learn, repeat with concrete tactics — use Anki spaced-repetition and a stats plugin to track daily… Talk on
Kubernetes: What Leslie Knope Can Teach Us	DevOpsDays Portland, OR 2021	2021-09-22
Argues that Kubernetes and DevOps are about culture and practical steps not magic, with concrete tactics: draw a map of how you get where you want to go… Talk on
The Lifecycle of A Service	DevOpsDays NYC 2020	2020-03-03
A practical blueprint for owning a service end to end: define a service boundary and name components for what they do, record intent and dependencies, version… Talk on
Psychology of Chaos Engineering	Conf42 Chaos Engineering 2020	2020-01-23
Chaos engineering is used to train teams as well as systems: companies run daytime experiments like Failure Fridays and Netflix’s lunchtime chaos to practice… Talk on
Avengers Assemble – The Thanos Incident	All Things Open 2019	2019-10-13
A retrospective reconstructs the timeline leading to the Snap, names the contributing factors instead of hunting a single root cause, and shows concrete… Talk on
Ignite - Everyone is Wrong About DevOps Except for Me	devopsdays Portland 2019	2019-09-10
Claims that DevOps is more than just tools and you can’t buy DevOps get flipped: the talk argues tools and automation dominate, cites Docker as “boring and… Talk on
Fight, Flight, or Freeze: Releasing Organizational Trauma	DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019	2019-06-25
Organizations respond to incidents like organisms experiencing fight, flight, or freeze: severe outages create undischarged traumatic stress that leaves teams… Talk on
Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma	GOTO Chicago 2019	2019-04-29
Compares PTSD treatment to organizational recovery and argues that simulated outages plus disciplined processing change how teams respond, not just what they… Talk on
Data Driven Observability & Incident Response	GOTO Chicago 2019	2019-04-29
Shows how PagerDuty and Humio power a real-time, data-driven observability pipeline with Humio ingest and search latency reported at less than one second… Talk on
The Psychology of Chaos Engineering	DevOpsDays Baltimore 2019	2019-04-24
Argues that chaos engineering improves system and team resilience but also creates human costs if mishandled, illustrated with case studies and concrete… Talk on
Fight, Flight, or Freeze - Releasing Organizational Trauma	DevOpsDays Copenhagen 2019	2019-04-04
Organizational trauma is defined as systems stuck in hyperarousal or freeze after outages, with measurable symptoms like constant vigilance, analysis… Talk on
The Four Agreements of Incident Response	PolarConf 2018	2018-10-16
Maps the Four Agreements to concrete incident practices: a study of over 10,000 companies, 50,000 responders and 760 million notifications shows 60M dinner… Talk on
Everything Is A Product...	DevOpsDays Boston 2018	2018-09-24
Argues that internal tech offerings are actual products and shows concrete practices: treat service desk, software delivery pipeline and infrastructure as code… Talk on
Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma	REdeploy 2018	2018-08-16
Organizations treat outages like trauma: repeated incidents leave a lasting “scar” that drives fight/flight/freeze behaviors such as permanent war‑room… Talk on
Speaker Panel - Day 2	REdeploy 2018	2018-08-16
Panelists argue resilience requires concrete practices not platitudes: adopt psychological safety, run postmortems and mindfulness exercises, and fund… Panel on
Talk Selection as Mockumentary Film Editing	devopsdays Toronto 2018	2018-05-30
Conference has 176 submissions for about 18 slots, with roughly 50–60 removable as vendor or off‑topic; selection treats the pile like a mockumentary edit… Talk on
How to Infect your Organization with Humane Ops	DevOpsDays Salt Lake City 2018	2018-05-15
A survey across 10,000 companies with 50,000 responders finds 760 million notifications total and 250 million during sleeping hours, and shows frequent weekend… Talk on
Arrested DevOps - Arrested DevOps Live!	DevOpsDays Chicago 2017	2017-09-12
Live, unscripted podcast recorded before an audience that claims hero culture rewards overtime and points to research (productivity drops after about 55… Talk on
The Hand-Waver's Guide To Contributing To Open Source	ChefConf 2017	2017-05-22
Open source contribution is the fastest way for architects and planners to learn tooling and constraints: rewrite attempts (rewrote a CLI from Ruby to Go)… Talk on
Shifting Left Securely	DevOpsDays Rockies 2017	2017-04-10
Argues that security and compliance must be treated as quality by moving tests left into the pipeline, versioning the workflow and running checks locally so… Talk on
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