DevOps Days Podcast

Interdisciplinary Engineering

When building reliable services unexpected user behavior can prove deadly. Yet few engineering teams make use of talent from their product and design orgs if they are working on something internal. This talk will demonstrate how a product mindset and design thinking can super charge technical discussions and build stronger systems. Don't rely on the user to be "smart!" It can trap you in an impossible architecture.

All Tech is Debt

All your tech is old. Even your new stuff is already old: somebody's already building something that's better. And they're probably going to give it away for free! So, what can you do about that? I have thoughts. We all spend a lot of energy trying to discover tech debt, and eliminate it. Fat chance! In this talk, I will convince you that all tech is debt, and that it's futile to try to live debt-free. Why? Because none of your tech is an asset; it's *all* liability. From the minute it's ...

A Software Engineer's Guide to DevOps

I'm a software engineer who spends her time writing code and developing apps. I have a pretty good grasp of the vocabulary and technologies relevant to my job. But what happens when another facet of engineering, one that is gaining a lot of traction and has a large footprint of its own starts becoming more and more relevant to my day to day tasks? Well, that's exactly what happened to me last year when DevOps became a big part of my role. This is my attempt to impart all of that knowledge on...

Application Secret Management with AWS

Taking advantage of AWS Parameter Store and some automation magic to make secret change management a problem of the past. We will talk about: The importance of secrets management Use Cases Parameter Store vs. Secret Manager Secret Vault and Application Integration points OSS Tools for Automation

Resilience Engineering: The What and How

Resilience Engineering (RE) is both multidisciplinary field of study as well as a community of practitioner-researchers from multiple high-tempo, high-consequence domains such as aviation, medicine, power distribution, space operations, and critical infrastructure. In recent years, the world of software engineering and operations has become involved and more acquainted with this almost 20 year-old field and community. This talk will give a “lay of the land” on what RE is, what it is not, wha...

DevOps Days DC - 2018 - If you can polyfill for Internet Explorer, you can optimize for a screenreader.

As developers, we take great pains to make our applications accessible to users on a range of devices and browsers. There are more adults with disabilities in the US than there are users of Internet Explorer. So why do we spend more time worrying about polyfills for out-dated browsers than we do on ensuring the accessibility of our applications for users of all ability levels? This talk will emphasize the importance of incorporating accessibility best practices throughout our design and de...

DevOps Days DC - 2018 - DevOps for AI

Today--Incorporating AI into applications is as easy as a single API call. Once imbued with AI, these transformed applications can improve over time as they learn from user interactions. How do we manage these new learning systems to ensure that they take advantage of all available information while maintaining accuracy and minimizing bias? This talk will discuss common problems encountered when designing and implementing AI systems and how DevOps practices can be used to address these iss...

DevOps Days DC - 2018 - DevOps in Politics

Working technology for a political campaign involves the shortest timelines, tightest deadlines, and highest stakes you will likely ever encounter in a technology career. Come hear a tale of two political campaigns - a state measure campaign and a presidential campaign - and the application of both DevOps technologies and culture to move fast, pivot quickly, and hopefully win. One of the key challenges of politics - as well as DevOps in general - is harnessing automation without losing the...

DevOps Days DC - 2018 - Security, Compliance, and Regulations: DevOps for Data Privacy

GDPR is upon us, along with new requirements for protecting user data. Many of us in the DC ecosystem are no strangers to compliance! We have expertise in HIPAA, SOC, PCI, and of course the stringencies associated with government work. But GDPR's new requirements are taking effect at the same time that many users are demanding increased privacy and transparency about their data (as a backlash to the Cambridge Analytica scandal) regardless of regulation. We'll look at best practices for Dev...

DevOpsDays DC - 2018 - Welcome to DevOpsDays DC

Securing the Death Star in Your Pocket - DevOpsDays DC - 2017

Learn how we established a service providing development teams with a continuous integration, build, test, source code management, and an issue tracking environment for building mobile apps for a large Federal Agency. Mobile phones are the world's greatest surveillance tool, containing all our private information that we willingly carry in our pocket everywhere we go. How do we develop and operationalize applications for mobile phones in a safe and secure way? Our system performs iterative t...

Persistence with Devops: Handling Database Updates and Migrations - DevOpsDays DC - 2017

One of the more unique and complicated areas of devops is dealing with database updates, especially those for databases with pre-defined schemas like relational databases. Databases generally: Need to stay online during updates Should not be destroyed and re-created Frequently have changes that can be long running and have impacts to the running application code Have implied or explicit dependencies between the database schema and application code or across shards in a sharded databas...

Change the Script: Deploy Improv, Not DevOps - DevOpsDays DC - 2017

The cornerstone of bringing together "development" and "operations" is collaboration. Collaboration sounds great on paper, but when the scales tip, you may end up with anarchy, or a dictatorship. How do you balance all of that while still managing to get things done? Enter: improv. Learn from theatre artist Melanie Harker and artist/developer Sean Paul Ellis how to taking a more fluid and fun approach to your DevOps work will allow you to build empathy, a common language, and ultimately, an ...

Changing Diversity Constructs, My Journey as a Women in DevOps - DevOpsDays DC - 2017

This is a deeply personal talk where I share my experiences as a woman in tech. Even though I'd worked for NASA and co-founded my own successful company, rampant sexism in IT and bad experiences speaking in public nearly destroyed my career. That continued to have ripples in my life until I found the DevOps community and the safe spaces it creates. I will examine common constructs about diversity and propose ideas to bring productive change to continue to build upon the solid foundation of i...

DevOpsDays DC 2017 - Hallway Track

Interviews and insights from participants of DevOpsDays DC 2017.

Lessons learned defending web applications when embracing DevOps

The standard approach for web application security over the last decade and beyond has focused heavily on slow gatekeeping controls like static analysis and dynamic scanning. However, these controls was originally designed in a world of Waterfall development and their heavy weight nature often cause more problems than they solve in today’s world of agile, DevOps, and CI/CD. This talk will share practical lessons learned at Etsy on the most effective application security techniques in today...

Build - Test - Monitor: Microservice Monitoring for Developers on a CaaS Platform - DevOpsDays DC - 2017

For the past two years my team and I worked with a large federal agency to deploy & migrate to a new container-as-a-service platform based on Docker. The migration has enabled development teams to isolate components of their code for faster, more reliable development. But, we also saw that the additional tooling - such as monitoring technology - supporting these services doesn’t yet map to the model that developers need to efficiently monitor their own services. In essence, the Develop->Test...

Rolling Boulders Forever Uphill - DevOps with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Custom Slackbots - DevOpsDays DC - 2017

In Greek Mythology, the Gods cursed Sisyphus to spend eternity rolling a large boulder to the top of a mountain, where it would fall back of its own weight. In DevOps, we're forever rolling boulders uphill. We're making deploys faster, cheaper, smoother, and quicker. And once the boulder reaches the mountain top, the engineers rearchitect the application and the the process begins again. At Upside Travel, Slack is our central command hub. We run our full operations through Slack ChatOps. E...

DevOps: Lessons Learned From Detroit To Deming - DevOpsDays DC - 2017

In 1982, the city of Detroit saw 15,000 vehicles roll of its production lines every day. To achieve this goal, Detroit's line workers were being measured on velocity, often at the expense of quality. At the same time, auto workers in Japan -- applying lessons from W. Edwards Deming -- were implementing new supply chain management practices which enabled them to manufacture higher quality vehicles, for less cost, at higher velocity. As a result, from 1962 to 1982, the Detroit auto industry lo...

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Day 2 Ignites

• Daniel Willis - Putting the R in Sports • Mark Morris - You, Me & StatsD • Sara Cowles - If you want to have an impact, Devops is not enough • Jason Hand - The Emergence of ChatOps • Matt Stratton - DevOps in the Machine

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - not all devops luminaries

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Let's Safety Dance

I hate computers. How many times have you heard those words? Or said them yourself. Systems crash and go boom all the time. The easiest thing to do is to blame the person touching the keyboard when it happens. Especially when that person touching the keyboard is you. But how do we build safer systems? How do we build humane systems, systems that actually engage and even delight the user? Sidney Dekker says "Safety improvements come from organizations monitoring the gap between procedures and...

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Cheffing Etsy: Do too many cooks really spoil the soup?

It's an oft-quoted adage that too many cooks spoil the soup. But is this always true? At Etsy, we have roughly 40 Ops and Developers making upwards of 20 or 30 Chef changes per day. In this talk, I'll look at the tools, techniques and workflows we leverage to enable tens of people spread across teams, timezones and even countries to work together to continuously deliver Chef changes with nearly the same frequency we ship code. Although the specific tooling discussed in this talk is designed...

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - The New New Software Game

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Day 1 Ignites

• Jenna Pederson - Stop Blogging About Women In Tech • Michael Lanyon - Effortless WebPerf Monitoring • Larye Pohlman - Vulnerability • Jason Clifford - GameOps • Jason Walker - Empathy, Fairness, and Contentment

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Helping developers monitor their own application

I'm a developer. I barely know what Nagios is, let alone how to set it up or configure new alerts. But I do know a lot about the application I'm working on, and I know how to code. By building a framework for easily adding new monitoring rules, the operations team at Swiftype has opened up application-level monitoring for the whole development team. I'll talk about the tools we wrote and explain how they allow developers to easily add new monitoring checks that probe our application (includi...

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Rolling Your Own vs SaaS

At Bloom Health, we're operating in a highly regulated environment (including HIPAA & PII) while at the same time running our infrastructure in public cloud. This leads to a number of considerations and tradeoffs when choosing the various parts of our stack. I'll detail the considerations we've undertaken, the compromises and winding paths towards workable solutions, and the specific technologies we've found work better for us as in-house solutions versus those where we've found SaaS to be t...

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - DevOps in the Public Sector

The IT community in the public sector has a sizeable, but frequently forgotten influence on peoples lives. Have you tried to renew a license plate online recently? How about navigated https://www.healthcare.gov/ to get health insurance? Used online learning tools for a public educational institution? Have any of these experiences been pleasant, or what you would expect from a well run modern website? These websites are your tax dollars at work. Are there reasons why we maybe aren't seeing th...

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - DevOps: The Missing Pieces

Devops has come a long way in the 5+ years since its inception. From simply breaking down silos and automating/measuring all the things, we’ve grown and started talking recently about complexity and inclusivity, burnout and empathy. We started trying to make people's professional lives better in the fields of development and operations; this expanded in two dimensions: both including more teams (QA! Databases! Even security!) and outside of the office, encouraging people to think about burno...

2015 - DevOpsDays Minneapolis - Introduction

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Day2 Ignites

• How to make a shift from traditional model to DevOps? (Namrata Rao) • Repository as an deployment artifact (Inny So) • Developer Happiness at RedMart (Surya Dharma Tio) • DevOps and the CFO (Benjamin Henshall)

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Devops meets Functional Programming

This is a story of an Infrastructure team at Zalora that implemented DevOps using Haskell and Nix. The story is about: • drowning in inherent complexity of existing Puppet configuration • establishing a functional programming community inside the company • implementing configuration management using purely-functional language and package manager Nix and using NixOS as the base OS • challenges of using new tools at scale • building cloud infrastructure tools using Haskell • building a code-...

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - State Of The 'DevOps' Union

This presentation covers the current state of the Devops movement as presented by one of the original "Core Organizers" of the movement. The presentation will look at some of the taxonomies that have been used to describe Devops such as CAMS and ICE. It will also cover the recent 2015 Devops Survey and we will end up with a discussion about how Devops is being adopted in the enterprise.

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Scaling Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK)

At Viki, we run a number of micro services that process thousands of requests per second in various geographical regions. Micro service architecture helps us break down the complexity of building a large distributed system, but also introduces the complexity of debugging an issue. This talk is about log processing at scale - building an Elasticsearch cluster that can handle tens of thousands of events per second from all levels of a micro-service container based architecture.

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - The Paradox of Progress

My first exposure to a DevOps Days was in 2010. I was an early adopter of most of the tools, took part in the heated iClassify debate, was contributing to Chef before it had a name, back when it was still a pet project at HJK Solutions.. As things evolved, we tried the offshoots that we hoped would fill the gaps.. MCollective, opscode-agent, but really we were just trading one problem for another.. DevOps Days was started in this gap, and over the years I have seen more and more vendor and ...

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Day 1 Ignites

• Sustainable Innovation - the Business Mantra for DevOps in Enterprise (Anoop Kumar Bhat) • The Power of Personal Influence (Kimble Ngo) • Agile: Break it down (Yue Lin Choong) • #noprojects (Evan Leybourn) • Crawl before you Run, Implementing DevOps (Jason Man) • Automated Docker Image Builds with Jenkins, Packer, and Kubernetes (Oyvind Roti)

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Security and Continuous Delivery

We will share our success stories and lessons learned on working toward Continuous Delivery on a public facing web application for a popular website. This will cover Infrastructure Engineering, Build and Release Engineering, End to End Auditability and Tracability, 1 Click Application Deployments, and Security from the Infrastructure to the Application Workflow.

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Agile Service Provider (Telco) Transformation: What does it take to be Agile?

As service providers(Telco's) begin to transform their business to embrace Virtualization & Cloud ( ie SDN & NFV) their network operations/service delivery teams needs to evolve. While Virtualization & Cloud make it easy to rapidly expand the size of infrastructure, but the habits and practices they used in the past with hardware-based infrastructure don't keep up. The Network operations teams need to adopt IT’s DevOps practices to maximize the potential benefits of the evolving software-def...

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - How a payment processing company turned into a software release factory

There was a company which had typical long running releases and the business was not happy. Business wanted change but IT was not sure how to deliver. Then they heard about Agile. It looked like the magic potion to all their problems.They started doing Agile but it just meant more work for the team and a chaos during the last days of the sprint. Operations was still not happy. Then they heard about another magic potion called Devops, which forced them to think about continuous delivery. I'll...

2015 - DevOpsDays Singapore - Life at REA Group - Lessons from 7 years of DevOps

REA Group is the parent company of one of the most popular Australian websites - realestate.com.au. Over the past 7 years REA Group has scaled from a 30 odd IT workforce to 200 across multiple locations. From Waterfall to Agile. From archaic to an employer of choice. Over my 7 years at REA we have lessons which I’d love to share on • Hiring Operations and Developers • Getting Operations and Developers to collaborate • Optimising teams to be more effective • Overcoming cultural difference...

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Organizational Learning Through Trolling

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Monitoring as a First Step to a New Service

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Ten Quick Tips to Improve Your Chef Workflow

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Building Continuous Delivery Pipelines

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - How the Fork Do I Contribute to Open Source

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Day of the Donkey

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - The DevOps Pipeline

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - Frameworks for Feedback

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - It's More Than Feature Toggles: Enabling Applications for Continuous Delivery

2015 - DevOpsDays Chicago - What DevOps is Not