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Talks & Presentations Collection

"Not invented here" syndrome and dark debt: The PagerDuty story
December 3, 2019

"Not invented here" syndrome and dark debt: The PagerDuty story

Finding the right balance between writing custom in-house software and using an off-the-shelf solution is difficult. Aish Raj Dahal sheds light on the age old build versus buy problem and "not invented here syndrome" by explaining how PagerDuty built a distributed task scheduler and later moved off it to use an off-the-shelf open source solution.

60,000 tests in six minutes: Create a reliable pipeline, eliminate flaky tests, and deploy safely but quickly

60,000 tests in six minutes: Create a reliable pipeline, eliminate flaky tests, and deploy safely but quickly

December 3, 2019

Good test coverage is essential for catching issues before a pull request has been merged, but they have to be the right kind of tests and must be reliable. Drawing on his experience at Microsoft, Sam Guckenheimer details what type of tests to do in your DevOps pipeline, when you should do them, and why.
A programmer's guide to secure connections

A programmer's guide to secure connections

December 3, 2019

Beyond looking out for a little green padlock in the browser bar, what do you need to know about secure connections as a programmer? What do people mean by terms like authentication, verifying a certificate, or signing a message? Join Liz Rice as she demystifies HTTPS, TLS, X.509, and more.
Ansible for SRE teams

Ansible for SRE teams

December 3, 2019

Ansible is a "batteries included" automation, configuration management, and orchestration tool that's fast to learn and flexible enough for any architecture. Join James Meickle to get started with Ansible, with an eye toward sustainable development in cloud environments.
Attack trees: Security modeling for Agile teams

Attack trees: Security modeling for Agile teams

December 3, 2019

Traditional security approaches to threat and risk management are highly optimized to work within a traditional software development lifecycle. Michael Brunton-Spall shares a new approach to reviewing systems along with real-life examples to help you prioritize where to focus security efforts and what sorts of security threats you should worry about.
Availability, latency, and cost: Withstanding regional outages

Availability, latency, and cost: Withstanding regional outages

December 3, 2019

Multiregion deployments can improve availability and latency and can cost way less than you think. Aaron Blohowiak dives into his experience operating in multiple regions at scale at Netflix and shares the algebraic models, code, and incident management playbooks the company has developed to tame, refine, and leverage its approach.
Beyond accidental architecture

Beyond accidental architecture

December 3, 2019

Accidental architecture is a product of circumstances rather than deliberate development toward a goal. James Thompson explains why it's best addressed by equipping teams to make more deliberate and informed technical decisions.
Building successful site reliability engineering in large enterprises

Building successful site reliability engineering in large enterprises

December 3, 2019

Implementing site reliability (SRE) engineering doesn't have to be intimidating, and it isn't only for cloud-native organizations. Liz Fong-Jones and Dave Rensin share eight key lessons Google's customer reliability engineering team learned helping large enterprises adopt SRE as an operations engineering model.
Bulk image processing using Kubernetes

Bulk image processing using Kubernetes

December 3, 2019

Mike Newswanger explains how he used Kubernetes and Google Cloud to burst and extend the capacity of a physical infrastructure for optimizing almost 10 million images in less than two weeks.
Communicating and managing change

Communicating and managing change

December 3, 2019

Evolving teams and evolving companies are a constant in the career of a leader; helping your team navigate through that change becomes critical to your success as a manager and for the organization. Rocio Delgado shares dos and don'ts for managing and communicating change in your team or organization, which may highlight where your own skills need to evolve.
Why we'll never run out of jobs

Why we'll never run out of jobs

December 3, 2019

There are many who fear that in the future, AI will do more and more of the jobs done by humans, leaving us without meaningful work. To believe this is a colossal failure of the imagination. Tim O'Reilly explains why we can't just use technology to replace people; we must use it to augment them so that they can do things that were previously impossible.
Consuming cloud services with the Kubernetes Service Catalog

Consuming cloud services with the Kubernetes Service Catalog

December 2, 2019

Neil Peterson leads a technical deep dive into using the Kubernetes Service Catalog to dynamically provision and consume managed cloud services.
Continuous Disintegration

Continuous Disintegration

December 2, 2019

As our industry faces its biggest reckoning ever with the social, ethical and cultural impacts of technology, what can we learn if we reflect on the assumptions we build into our systems? How could our processes and tools be designed to undo the biggest bugs and biases of todays tech?
Creating an Effective Developer Experience on Kubernetes

Creating an Effective Developer Experience on Kubernetes

December 2, 2019

Join this talk to learn about how to curate your perfect developer experience using Kubernetes.
Disaster resilience the Waffle House way, from flattops to feature flags and more

Disaster resilience the Waffle House way, from flattops to feature flags and more

December 2, 2019

Waffle House's hurricane disaster plan has everything you could want from an IT disaster plan, including contact trees, failover states, and runbooks on partial operation. Heidi Waterhouse shares lessons about state drawn from the world outside computers and explains how to quantify them using a finite state machine and implement them automatically while you are in a less-than-perfect condition.
Faster is safer: Security in the enterprise

Faster is safer: Security in the enterprise

December 2, 2019

Molly Crowther demonstrates how the enterprise can use cloud platforms to make security move at the pace of businessnot the other way around.
Frankenstein's microservices: How to avoid the monster

Frankenstein's microservices: How to avoid the monster

December 2, 2019

Many companies adopt microservices to break down monoliths, but they soon uncover a hidden cost: How do you manage all these new interconnected things popping up? Michael Hamrah explains how to avoid creating Frankenstein's monster by understanding elements of a microservice platform. . .so you can sleep at night.
From silos to a single pane of glass at USA TODAY NETWORK

From silos to a single pane of glass at USA TODAY NETWORK

December 2, 2019

Three years ago, technical teams at USA TODAY NETWORK were completely siloed, making improvements and troubleshooting difficult and often blind to the rest of the technical organization. Bridget Lane and Kris Vincent explain how drastically the teams' tool belts, thought processes, and goals have changed as the company moved from silos to a single pane of glass.
How do we solve the world's spreadsheet problem?

How do we solve the world's spreadsheet problem?

December 2, 2019

In the past five years, Alexander Rasmussen has spent a lot of time trying to get high-integrity data out of spreadsheets and into databases. Alexander explores common data integrity problems when dealing with spreadsheet data, investigates whether those integrity problems are inescapable, and shares ongoing work to mitigate them.
How NTSB air disaster analysis can help you in an emergency

How NTSB air disaster analysis can help you in an emergency

December 2, 2019

Matt Rogish explains how NTSB investigations of air disasters have dramatically improved flight safety and applies lessons learned in disaster recovery and analysis, teamwork, task saturation, and systems design to modern software application and infrastructure architecture at scale to achieve higher availability, reduced errors, and more scalable systems.
How to break up with your vendor

How to break up with your vendor

December 1, 2019

You're unsatisfied with one of your monitoring providers. You've considered finding a new solution, but the thought of migrating your data off their platform sounds extremely painful. Amy Nguyen and Cory Watson explain how to make a deadline for an infrastructure-critical software migration while ensuring that everyone's requirements are met and no data has been lost.
How to get away with refactoring

How to get away with refactoring

December 1, 2019

How do you refactor major, core functionality in a million-line codebase without disrupting the entire system? Maude Lemaire explains how Slack overhauled channels and shares the many obstacles the company overcame to boost both application performance and company-wide developer productivity (with only a few hiccups).
Integrating developer and operator experience in Kubernetes

Integrating developer and operator experience in Kubernetes

December 1, 2019

Developer and operator personas are often viewed as separate, but the truth on the ground is actually far more mixed. Developers often operate their own software, and operators often explore software to find and fix bugs. Brendan Burns covers this overlap, explaining how to build tooling and approaches that enable developers and operators to quickly switch or blend between the personas.
Knative: Kubernetes, serverless, and you

Knative: Kubernetes, serverless, and you

December 1, 2019

It's a Kubernetes world. Join Ryan Gregg to learn about Knative, an open source collaboration between Google and other industry leaders to define the future of serverless on Kubernetes. Knative solves the difficult but boring aspects of running modern cloud applications on Kubernetes.
Kubernetes bootcamp: Deploying and scaling microservices

Kubernetes bootcamp: Deploying and scaling microservices

December 1, 2019

Kubernetes has a reputation for being complex to set up and operate, but that doesn't have to be the case. Join Jrme Petazzoni to explore Kubernetes concepts and architecture and learn how to use it to deploy and scale your applications. The content is suitable to all kinds of deployment models, from the cloud (AKS, EKS, GKE, kops, etc.) to on-premises.
Kubernetes: Crossing the chasm

Kubernetes: Crossing the chasm

December 1, 2019

As Kubernetes enters the mainstream market, we are seeing more use cases that don't fit the original mold, each bringing a new set of challenges. Ian Crosby discusses three specific case studies, the challenges encountered adopting Kubernetes, and the solutions and tooling used to solve them.
Lessons learned migrating HealthCare.gov to Terraform

Lessons learned migrating HealthCare.gov to Terraform

December 1, 2019

Christian Monaghan explains how he and his team successfully migrated HealthCare.gov, America's largest government website, to the cloud infrastructure provisioning tool Terraform, shares lessons learned along the way, and details how you can effectively use Terraform for your next project.
Managing multiple sources of truth in distributed applications

Managing multiple sources of truth in distributed applications

November 30, 2019

When building distributed applications, it's highly desirable to maintain a single source of truth, such as a database, for all application state. Unfortunately, for some applications, multiple sources of truth are unavoidable. Adam Wolfe Gordon shares strategies, learned from real-world experience, for managing multiple sources of truth without sacrificing consistency and usability.