DevOps Days Podcast

Developers are trained to communicate to things with a goal in mind. When you're talking to something like, say a computer, you type in your code and it responds by giving you back what you want. Nine times out of ten, it works perfectly. Why, then, is it so difficult to do this same thing when talking to a client about a project, updating a superior on your progress, or pitching an investor your million-dollar idea? Because talking to people requires a special set of skills - namely, empath...

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Ethical and Sustainable On-Call

October 06, 2015 01:28 - 22 minutes - 25.3 MB

It's 2:30 AM and you hear your phone buzz. You reach over and see an alert from PagerDuty. That new service your team has been working on for a few weeks has crashed and you don't know the first thing about debugging Clojure apps. After crawling out of bed and logging into your company's VPN you discover your co-workers have left you absolutely no documentation on what to do when "bad things happen". You sit there wondering if you'll be getting back to bed tonight. Sound familiar? It doesn'...

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Confessions of a social engineer

October 06, 2015 01:26 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MB

Full title: Confessions of a social engineer: Why developers are my favorite target Social engineers use a dangerous combination of technology and old fashioned con artistry to infiltrate organizations every day. In this talk we'll walk through the social engineering process including research, target selection, attack selection, and attack execution. Learn to see the world through the eyes of a social engineer and prevent yourself from being a victim.

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - How to Debug Anything

October 05, 2015 12:12 - 29 minutes - 32.7 MB

In this talk, Sam will discuss some common and some not-so-common tools for debugging code, systems, and anything in between. He will take strace, valgrind, gdb to the next level.

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Busting Silos & Red Tape: DevOps in Federal Government

October 05, 2015 12:09 - 18 minutes - 18.2 MB

All organizations face challenges in changing their culture and adopting DevOps philosophies. This is especially true in many federal government agencies. Through well-intentioned policies and procedures many agencies have created extremely silo’d environments where change is slow and difficult. Finishing the last leg of large scale software development project acquisitions can be particularly challenging and expensive. Barriers often impede getting hardware and software systems system fully...

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Slide Karaoke

October 03, 2015 21:42 - 7 minutes - 7.33 MB

Several attendees give spontaneous talks...having never seen the slides and the slides have almost nothing to do with each other. A hilarious exercise in non-sequitur and impromptu absurdity. We all need a little ridiculousity in our lives!

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Day 2 Ignite Talks

October 03, 2015 21:41 - 21 minutes - 21.2 MB

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Day 1 Ignite Talks

October 03, 2015 21:40 - 21 minutes - 34.1 MB

• Jason Hand (VictorOps) - ChatOps • Leon Frayer - What is devops NOT? • Lewis (Delphic) - Data as a service • Chris Corriere

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Application Orchestration with Kubernetes

September 29, 2015 17:20 - 16 minutes - 18.3 MB

How to take an app from your laptop to production utilizing the future of container orchestration. It’s difficult to say with confidence that your app will work in production without testing it, many people today have very complex scripts which out outline deployment, testing and validation, and often rely on late night pager calls and very brittle rollback scenarios. Additionally, developers struggle with developing software on different platforms and SDK versions that are hard to make cons...

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - Security for Humans

September 29, 2015 17:19 - 16 minutes - 17.8 MB

There are many stakeholders involved when you are creating or assembling a security toolchain. How do you satisfy the different, and sometimes conflicting, needs of these stakeholders in a responsive way? We can use some of the concepts developed in the user experience domain to create better security tooling. User personas allow us to map out different roles that must interact with security to get their work done. These personas are living and provide a fast feedback loop when paired with ...

2015 - DevOpsDays Pittsburgh - The Incredible Shrinking Operating System!

September 29, 2015 17:17 - 22 minutes - 32 MB

Operating Systems. Where did they come from? Did your customer ask for one? Why do you bother with them at all? Operating systems have traditionally played an enormous part in software development and operations. Most of us would find it difficult to imagine computing without one. They are certainly a source of religious contention. Operating systems represent a maintenance and security burden; they have long been viewed by many as a necessary evil. They often bring more bulk and complexit...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 23 - Welcome to Day 2 - Some challenges, inspiration, and a checklist

September 05, 2015 14:15 - 9.98 MB

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 24 - Avoiding the "Half-Baked Zone" - The Fallacy of Real-Time Analytics in Performance Monitoring

September 05, 2015 14:13 - 32.7 MB

Is your performance monitoring using real-time analytics in a way that will produce results or noise and frustration? Real-time analytics can improve the value of performance monitoring by enabling operations teams to pinpoint problems faster and proactively manage applications, but it’s notoriously difficult to harness its value. In this presentation, we will show you how to avoid the pitfalls of partial analytics implementation, and explain the value of a comprehensive monitoring analytics...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 20 - Effective Infrastructure Code Review

September 05, 2015 14:10 - 4.52 MB

Once infrastructure becomes code it becomes testable as code (testing is generally considered a pretty good idea). It also becomes reviewable as code. Code review is a powerful complement to testing (and might just be the more effective of the two for finding bugs), spreading knowledge, and improving at the craft of programming In this talk: Be convinced reviewing code review is also a pretty good idea. Cover pre and post commit workflows and example tooling to make your day better. L...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 28 - Consumer to Collaborator: Re-imaging the US Government's role in Open Source

September 05, 2015 14:07 - 29.9 MB

Government agencies are often hesitant to use open source tools out of concerns of security and compliance issues. This hesitancy to use open source deprives many government agencies from closely collaborating with others to create software that is finely tuned and widely available to scratch its own itch. The five-year old OpenSCAP community is helping to change that and re-imagining the US Governments role in open source through its NIST-Certified SCAP 1.2 scanning software and growing bod...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 30 - DevOops & How I hacked you

September 05, 2015 14:04 - 28.2 MB

In a quest to move faster, organizations can end up creating security vulnerabilities using the tools and products meant to protect them. Both Chris Gates and Ken Johnson will share their collaborative research into the technology driving DevOps as well as share their stories of what happens when these tools are used insecurely as well as when the tools are just insecure. Technologies discussed will encompass AWS Technology, Chef, Puppet, Hudson/Jenkins, Vagrant, Kickstart and much, much m...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 34 - DevOps is Bureaucracy

September 05, 2015 14:00 - 36.7 MB

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 35 - Getting the Message Out in the (Big, Bad, Government) Enterprise

September 05, 2015 13:58 - 4.47 MB

Or, "Automation is hard and the enterprise is large." Fewer steps, decreased time-to-production, faster iteration cycles... Devops practically sells itself - except when it doesn't. You can do all the right things but if you don't make it matter for Mission(tm), nobody will listen. We're very good at the first step toward excellence (doing great things) but we often forget about the follow-up - talk about it. But how? Where? Changing culture isn't easy, especially when you're a single perso...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 36 - DevOps Security and Continuous Failure: Lessons From Heartbleed, Shellshock, and Countless Other Security Flaws

September 05, 2015 13:55 - 4.66 MB

We pursue increasingly rapid delivery cycles while acheiving previously unimaginable degrees of scalability, reliability, and raw performance. But there is obviously a growing and serious mismatch between our develoment and operations performance in securing our applications compared to our performance in other areas. I work at a company extensively involved in Drupal and other open source projects that concentrate on both DevOps and security, but continue to be plagued by serious security v...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 37 - 3 Ways to get Capacity Utilization Wrong

September 05, 2015 13:52 - 4.64 MB

Right-sizing your environment is one of the most stressful decisions to make when moving to the cloud. If you under-provision resources, systems are at risk of going down and you lose money. If you over-provision, you’re wasting money that could be used elsewhere. In this presentation, we’ll share with you 3 ways we’ve learned how to get capacity utilization wrong and how we eventually got it right. CPU measurement alone won’t give you the full view of your infrastructure utilization You c...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 38 - DevOps – Not for the Faint of Heart

September 05, 2015 13:50 - 4.45 MB

The story of USPTO’s journey and struggles with implementing DevOps.

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 39 - Demming's 14 Points

September 05, 2015 13:46 - 5.27 MB

W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow for significantly improving the effectiveness of a business or organization. Many of the principles are philosophical. Others are more programmatic. All are transformative in nature. The points were first presented in his book Out of the Crisis.

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 19 - Learning from Aviation Safety

August 30, 2015 18:33 - 4.79 MB

Recent publications from EUROCONTROL (the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation) provide a concise and accessible way to learn the principles & practices of Systems Thinking for Safety. This provides a quick way to establish a foundation of fundamental principles and practical advice for organizations adopting Blameless Postmortems as part of their DevOps practices.

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 18 - An Introvert's Guide to DevOps

August 30, 2015 18:32 - 4.59 MB

Tips, Insights, and Anecdotes about how do deal with moving towards a DevOps culture as an introvert.

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 17 - Vagrant for Non-Developers

August 30, 2015 18:28 - 4.52 MB

Vagrant helps developers minimize the difference between production and development environments. That's great for developers, but why should the rest of the team care? This talk will discuss several features of Vagrant that will increase consistency and minimize surprises throughout the deployment pipeline. The discussion will be non-technical, focusing on the value for the entire team.

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 16 - Overcoming Barriers to DevOps Adoption within Government

August 30, 2015 18:26 - 4.61 MB

Delali Dzirasa is Founder and President of Fearless Solutions, a software firm based out of Baltimore, MD. Delali is a Certified Scrum Master and PMP® with a decade of experience leading agile software teams and programs. . Delali Dzirasa graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2004. Delali always had a passion for entrepreneurship and after working at a handful of technology firms, he founded Fearless in 2009. Fearless is a com...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 15 - What DevOps is Not

August 30, 2015 18:14 - 4.59 MB

DevOps has been a hot topic in the industry for some time now. A lot of people been talking about it. Some have built business models around DevOps-related tools and themes. People have made career around talking about it. In light of all of that, I find it chuckle-worthy that very few people actually know what DevOps is (just follow #devops on Twitter for proof.) I am not going to be one of many trying to create a buzzword-infested definition of DevOps to suit my particular agenda. Instead,...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 13 - Continuous Acceleration with a Software Supply Chain Approach

August 30, 2015 15:22 - 27.7 MB

With continuous development, we write less code and consume more re-usable open source code. Innovation is accelerated and so is application complexity. Complexity is the enemy of quality. Poor quality creates unplanned break-fixes. Break-fixes create a drag on development speed. It’s a continuous loop. What if we could deliver applications on-time (even faster), on-budget (even more efficiently) and with a natural byproduct of less risk? The good news: other industries have with supply ch...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 09 - Measuring and Optimizing Front-End Web Performance

August 30, 2015 15:20 - 29 MB

A quick tour through the tools, techniques and things to look out for in order to deliver a fast web experience. We will cover a broad range of topics including: Reporting the performance of users visiting your sites New browser primitives that provide incredible insight and diagnostics as well as upcoming specs to be aware of Testing for web performance Best practices around what to measure and how Practical hands-on examples with WebPageTest What it takes to deliver a visually fast e...

2015 - DevOpsDays DC - 08 - How we used Lean thinking to pivot a project away from uncertainty and towards success

August 30, 2015 15:15 - 27.8 MB

The Lean approach champions quick, cheap experiments designed to test hypotheses. It seeks to spend as few resources as possible determining what to build and then, once discovered, to pull back hard and build the thing right. However, typically in our environment, we scope a project, assume it's the right thing to build, try to build it right, and do whatever's necessary to get it into production, which takes incredible effort. During this session, I'll tell the story of how we app...

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