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Talks & Presentations Collection

Building an open platform for government innovation
November 27, 2019

Building an open platform for government innovation

There's a software culture revolution inside the government. User-centric design, lean, and agile are first citizens, but the increased velocity in development and testing requires a change in the way the government does deployment, security, and compliance. Diego Lapiduz shows how the cloud.gov team is building tools to achieve faster deployments and continuous compliance in a secure environment.

Building and operating containerized applications at scale (Day 1)

Building and operating containerized applications at scale (Day 1)

November 27, 2019

The advantages of containerized applications are increasingly recognized. Michael Hausenblas provides a gentle introduction to building and operating containerized applications at scale. The first day focuses on the basics of building app using containers; the second day expands this knowledge, focusing on the operations (monitoring, upgrades, etc.) of these apps.
ChatOps in 2016

ChatOps in 2016

November 27, 2019

By now, you've probably have heard of ChatOps (especially if you're in operations). GitHub has been using ChatOps for more than five years and continues to scale these practices. Ben Lavender explains the guidelines that GitHub has created to work with ChatOps and the lessons learned in the process.
Cloudy with a chance of scaling: Keeping your highly scaled application highly available using the cloud

Cloudy with a chance of scaling: Keeping your highly scaled application highly available using the cloud

November 27, 2019

As our applications grow, keeping them operational is challenging. High growth means more data, more computation, and more opportunities for problems. The cloud offers the ability to improve scalability while maintaining availability. Lee Atchison explains the keep two mistakes high principal and how to use the cloud to keep applications healthy and growing while keeping costs inline.
Container orchestration wars

Container orchestration wars

November 27, 2019

The orchestration space is fast moving and full of competing products, platforms, and frameworks. How do you choose the right one for your requirements? Karl Isenberg explores the features of several container orchestrators, breaking down the feature sets and characteristics into categories and scoring multiple solutionsincluding Kubernetes, Marathon, and Docker Swarmagainst each other.
Containers will not fix your broken culture, and other hard truths

Containers will not fix your broken culture, and other hard truths

November 27, 2019

Bridget Kromhout explains why containers will not fix your broken culture. Microservices wont prevent your two-pizza teams from needing to have conversations with one another over that pizza. No amount of industrial-strength job scheduling makes your organization immune to Conways law.
DDoS emotions

DDoS emotions

November 26, 2019

When a DDoS attack occurs, organizations respond using existing mental models of operations, not taking into account the emotional effects of the malicious nature of the attack. Artur Bergman explores how people react and why a DDoS attack is different than other challenges a company may face, proving that it isn't your fault and you're not alone.
Dealing with anxiety in operations

Dealing with anxiety in operations

November 26, 2019

Justin Lintz defines some of the stresses operations people face, outlines methods for mitigating them, and discusses his personal experience of having an anxiety disorder while working in an operations role, raising awareness about the anxiety issues many people face but are afraid to talk about.
Debugging distributed systems

Debugging distributed systems

November 26, 2019

Distributed systems are hard. They are complicated, hard to understand, and very challenging to manage. But they are critical to modern software, and when they have problems, we need to fix them. Donny Nadolny looks at what it takes to debug a problem in a distributed system like ZooKeeper, walking attendees through the process of finding and fixing one cause of many of these failures.
Debugging frontend performance (Day 1)

Debugging frontend performance (Day 1)

November 26, 2019

Tim Kadlec and Patrick Meenan explain how the construction of websites and applications impacts performance as well as how to quickly debug and resolve performance issues. Tim and Patrick dive into how browsers work, how web pages are delivered, backend and frontend issues, optimizations, and techniques to get the best performance and provide hands-on experience for working on web performance.
Debugging frontend performance (Day 2)

Debugging frontend performance (Day 2)

November 26, 2019

Tim Kadlec and Patrick Meenan explain how the construction of websites and applications impacts performance as well as how to quickly debug and resolve performance issues. Tim and Patrick dive into how browsers work, how web pages are delivered, backend and frontend issues, optimizations, and techniques to get the best performance and provide hands-on experience for working on web performance.
Effectively adding analytics to your monitoring

Effectively adding analytics to your monitoring

November 26, 2019

Effective monitoring for todays agile environments is both science and art. (Analytics can provide the science while experts and business context can provide the art.) There is no perfect solution, but a framework for integrating these varied information sources as collaborators can drive continuous improvement. Elizabeth Nichols highlights (anonymized) examples from real environments.
Employee burnout and its often overlooked impact on productivity

Employee burnout and its often overlooked impact on productivity

November 26, 2019

Employee burnout is an overlooked anchor dragging down productivity and employee engagement in our industry. Courtney Kissler highlights some tactics and metrics to help leaders proactively address this issue.
Is your performance analysis approach as cutting edge as your application architecture?

Is your performance analysis approach as cutting edge as your application architecture?

November 26, 2019

To analyze and improve the performance of modern applications, you must abandon outdated approaches and toolsets which are rooted to the physical topology of servers and JVMs. Jon Hodgson discusses a new paradigm to reveal unexpected relationships and hotspots obscured by the elasticity of containers and microservices so that you can find and fix issues with the most overarching business impact.
Jump-starting back-office connections

Jump-starting back-office connections

November 26, 2019

Large-scale cloud networks are constantly driven by the need for improved performance in communication between data centers. Such back-office communication makes up a large fraction of traffic in many cloud environments. Harkeerat Bedi offers an overview of a tool that improves the efficiency of data-center-to-data-center communication by learning the congestion level of links in between.
Making bad ads sad. Rad!

Making bad ads sad. Rad!

November 26, 2019

Ads are annoying and intrusive and can compromise privacy, but, worst of all, they're disastrous for website performance. Bruce Lawson outlines the performance gains Opera has made by deploying a native ad blocker in its flagship browsers, explains how Opera did it, and explores how the whole advertising ecosystem can (hopefully) improve.
Measuring ad blocker impact on site performance

Measuring ad blocker impact on site performance

November 25, 2019

Users' ad blockers are impacting your site's perceived performance, but measuring the impact of ad blockers on actual and perceived performance can be difficult. Karan Kumar offers an overview of new testing he has created that measures the overall impact ad blockers have on the quality of user experience and performance across a number of sites.
Measuring continuity

Measuring continuity

November 25, 2019

Whenever we speak of measuring web performance, we always refer to measuring static events, like page load or time to first tweet. A performant user experience is much more than that. Philip Tellis and Nic Jansma explore methods of measuring web performance as it relates to continuous interactions between the user and a page.
Measuring what matters

Measuring what matters

November 25, 2019

What good are detailed web page timings if you are not measuring the right things? Stephen Ludin offers an overview of the User Timing API, exploring adoption rates, current levels of support, and a path toward universal adoption and usage.
Modern infrastructure with Terraform

Modern infrastructure with Terraform

November 25, 2019

Seth Vargo offers a comprehensive, engineer-led overview of two of HashiCorp's tools: Terraform and Atlas.
Modern performance best practices

Modern performance best practices

November 25, 2019

Dustin Whittle offers a practical introduction to modern performance best practices for web apps, diving into the latest tools and best practices for launching an ideal end-user experience. Find out how you can leverage Chrome Developer Tools, Google PageSpeed, and WebPagetest to get started improving your applications.
Monitoring microservices: Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes visibility at scale

Monitoring microservices: Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes visibility at scale

November 25, 2019

Gianluca Borello explores the state of the art for visibility, monitoring, and troubleshooting for microservices and containersincluding live demonstrations of popular tools and methods and the pros and cons of eachwith special emphasis on sysdig, an open source system visibility tool.
Monitoring the Microsoft cloud

Monitoring the Microsoft cloud

November 25, 2019

Gabe Wishnie explains how Microsoft monitors the cloud services it provides at high scale with low latency through a multidimensional metric (MDM) system. Gabe offers an introduction to the architecture Microsoft uses, lessons learned along the way, and the areas in which it is still investing.
My cloud makes pretty pictures

My cloud makes pretty pictures

November 24, 2019

Data is beautiful when made visible. Matthew Brender and Raj Dutt offer a demo of Snap, an open telemetry framework designed to gather an increasingly diverse amount of measurements from the cloud, and illustrate how to visualize data in Grafana with unprecedented ease.
Next-generation alerting and fault detection

Next-generation alerting and fault detection

November 24, 2019

Alerting on your stack is the key to happy customers and a healthy business. Dieter Plaetinck explains what's wrong with the oft-touted complicated alerting methods and explores how to get the in-depth coverage and address complicated alerting needs using simple techniques, with a focus on the workflow using an alerting IDE.
OODA, maps, and antifragility: A case study in pragmatism

OODA, maps, and antifragility: A case study in pragmatism

November 24, 2019

OODA isnt just for DevOps. Mapping isnt just for strategists. Antifragility isnt just for Netflix. Once we get beyond cargo-culting ideas, we can begin to understand how they arose and in what context. But how do we apply them? Aneel Lakhani explores the practical application of these ideas through examples from his daily work.
Part of the pipeline: Why continuous testing is essential

Part of the pipeline: Why continuous testing is essential

November 24, 2019

Adam Auerbach and Tapabrata Pal discuss Captial One's transformation to continuous testing, covering core principles, tools, and best practices as well as common roadblocks and some recommendations on how best to remove them from the environment.
Performance is about more than time series charts

Performance is about more than time series charts

November 24, 2019

When most people think of performance monitoring tools, they think of things like time series charts, page load times, DNS resolution times, and backend service response times. Buddy Brewer explores alternative ways of visualizing performance data and explains how changing your perspective can sometimes lead you to surprising discoveries.