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A good SRE is hard to find; or, The power of apprenticeship

February 13, 2020

Rowan Cota explains how BuzzFeed created a strong SRE team by growing the engineers it needed instead of waiting for them to fall out of the skyand how you can too. Rowan turns narrative examples into a framework that anyone can use to harness the power of growing potential to diversify and strengthen their teams.

A new vision for the global brain: Deep learning with people instead of machines

February 13, 2020

In deep learning, individual "neuronal" computational actions are simple but aggregated over several neurons and iterated through several computation cycles can solve complex problems. What if we swapped out neurons for people? What kinds of complex problems could we solve? Omoju Miller offers a new vision for the global brain, where we harness human action for a better future.

A programmer's guide to secure connections

February 12, 2020

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.

Better incident command for improved MTTR

February 12, 2020

A skilled incident commander improves time to resolution and decreases stress all around. Join Beth Long and Elisa Binette to learn how to build strong incident management skills at the individual level and shape organizational processes to drive down MTTR, making both customers and engineers happier.

Building a distributed real-time stream processing system

February 12, 2020

Amy Boyle walks you through building, scaling, and monitoring a stream processing pipeline.

Building resilient serverless systems

February 12, 2020

John Chapin explains howin this brave new world of managed services and platformsyou can use serverless technologies and an infrastructure-as-code mindset to architect, build, and operate resilient systems that survive even massive vendor outages.

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) prep + exam

February 12, 2020

Can you develop and maintain applications using Kubernetes? Thats the question more employers are asking these days. Take the next step in your career by becoming a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer. You get a full day of test prep from OReillys top Kubernetes trainer and the opportunity to take the exam onsite, leaving an official Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.

Critical infrastructure software security: A maritime shipping study case

February 12, 2020

Elisa Heymann and Bart Miller explain how they performed an in-depth assessment of software controlling maritime container shipping, exposing opportunities for an attacker to smuggle goods or divert shipments and even damage personnel and ships.

Deriving meaning in a time of chaos: The intersection between chaos engineering and observability

February 12, 2020

Crystal Hirschorn explores incident planning, postmortem-driven development, chaos engineering, and observability practices and details the exponential effect they can have on leveling up your engineering organization, one controlled chaos experiment at a time.

Designing an effective approach to hiring through continuous improvement

February 12, 2020

Hiring is time consuming and infrequent enough that it's hard to get much practice, but it has far-reaching consequences for your team's happiness and productivity. Marisa Brandt draws on a broad mix of best practices and personal experience to detail an approach to developing a concrete strategy that addresses your unique hiring needs.

Distributed tracing: Understanding how all your components work together

February 12, 2020

Looking at a service in isolation in a multiservice architecture simply does not give you enough information. Distributed tracing tools shine a light on the relationship between components. Jos Carlos Chvez explains how distributed tracing works, what you can use it for, and how tools like Zipkin can help.

Don't panic! How to cope now that you're responsible for production

February 12, 2020

Euan Finlay shares practical tips and advice on setting up an incident response framework, what to do when "everything is on fire," and how to improve things afterwardalong with some horror stories of his own.

Evolution of the Runtastic backend

February 12, 2020

Simon Lasselsberger shares diagrams that illustrate the evolution of the architecture of the eight-year-old Runtastic microservice backend.

Friction to freedom: Fueling Agile development through secure data automation

February 11, 2020

Data friction was a major roadblock for Choice Hotels, preventing the company from achieving its strategic vision for growth and innovation. Propagating the right data to the right teams was a costly and inefficient process that took weeks of manual effortespecially during peak seasons. Nick Suwyn explains why and how Choice Hotels adopted a DevOps and DataOps approach to solve this issue.

GitOps and Jenkins X

February 11, 2020

Tracy Miranda discusses GitOps, Jenkins X, and what the future of CI/CD for Kubernetes should look like.

Govern your cloud platform

February 11, 2020

Jermila Paul Dhas explains how the cloud enablement team at the Financial Times proactively validates the security and compliance of the FT's entire cloud estate.

How serverless changes the IT department

February 11, 2020

Join Paul Johnston to explore and better understand distributed architectures and automation. Is it about pragmatism and simplicity? What are the skills that we have dismissed as only relevant for certain scenarios that should be used within a serverless environment? How do you hire for this new approach? Is it about code challenges or more abstract problem solving?

How to build observability into a serverless application

February 11, 2020

Serverless introduces a number of challenges to existing tools for observability, so you need to adapt your practices to fit this new paradigm. Yan Cui explains how to build observability into a serverless application, demonstrating how to implement log aggregation, distributed tracing, and correlation IDs through both synchronous and asynchronous events.

Incognito mentorship

February 11, 2020

If you are here, then youve likely made it past the breakwaters of your career. You face vast stretches of career that can be met with little more than what you already have. And therein lies the threat. Katrina Owen explains why you must design your own crucible.

Killing Your Inner Techbro

February 11, 2020

The transition from perpetuating exclusionary behaviour to actively working for inclusion is easier than you think. We'll explore how to contribute in valuable ways to discussions on culture and inclusivity, as well as how not to do it.

Kubernetes is not for developers, and other things the hype never told you

February 11, 2020

Taylor Thomas explains why Kubernetes is not a developer tool and cuts through other common misconceptions. Along the way, you'll learn how Kubernetes provides powerful abstractions for running and operating applications.

Kubernetes: Good or evil?The ethics of data centers

February 10, 2020

The excessive and dirty energy use of data centers is one of the biggest ethical issues facing the tech industry todayand one that, ironically, Kubernetes was originally invented to help address. However, that's not how it's being used. Anne Currie dives into the ethics of data centers and explores Kubernetes's role.

Learning from the web of life

February 10, 2020

Imagine having millions of years of experience in developing and operating complex distributed systems? What if we could reverse-engineer nature's strategies for high-performance, resilient, and secure systems? From organisms to ecosystems, Claire Janisch explores some of the best biomimicry opportunities inspired by nature's software and wetware.

Monitoring custom metrics; or, How I learned to instrument first and ask questions later

February 10, 2020

Maxime Petazzoni explains why monitoring custom application metrics is essential for visibility into the internal workings of a system and shares a framework for properly instrumenting them, along with a number of relevant use cases.

Practical advice for monitoring microservices

February 10, 2020

Adrian McMichael explores property portal Rightmove's structured approach to logging and monitoring across more than 50 microservices, showing you how to get to the bottom of production issues and helping you drive improvement and a sense of ownership in your projects.

Stories from the DBA trenches

February 10, 2020

Your company may not have a DBA explicitly in the org chart, but that just means everyone on the team takes over the role at some point. Silvia Botros explains why thats ok (all the DBAs she knows were accidental too) and shares tips and tricks for keeping your MySQL databases running smoothly and protecting your companys most important asset.

The Freedom of Kubernetes

February 10, 2020

In the vastness of the Cloud Native ecosystem, we find ourselves overwhelmed with complexity and a promise that efficiency will one day outweigh this complexity. In this presentation, we take a look at the new era of the Cloud Native space and the kernel that has made this all possible: Kubernetes.

All the world's a staging server

February 9, 2020

Here's some sad news: staging is a lie and will never be identical to production, because production is unknowable. But here's the good news: production can contain multitudes, including features you arent ready to turn on or activate yet. Join Heidi Waterhouse for an exploration of the ways that you might be able to kill staging and perform better.