John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years. Currently he is Vice President of DevOps and Digital Practices at SJ Technologies. He was formerly Director of Ecosystem Development at Docker. Prior to Docker, Willis was the VP of Solutions for Socketplane... Read More →
Make downtime a frontend concern. Come learn how proactively introducing failure through 'game days' can not only improve your overall uptime, but encourage resilient implementations across the stack. How often do you get to break your colleagues’ work and get away with it?
Patrick Higgins is a UI engineer at Gremlin, where he helps developers unleash the power of controlled chaos. He is passionate about finding effective ways to make UIs resilient to failure. He fills his weekends with playing soccer, reading nonfiction, and assisting with civic causes... Read More →
Dev teams were already struggling with adding security to their Agile processes. DevOps teams are pushing to release continuously, meaning integrating security will become even more of a challenge. How can teams deliver secure code while maintaining the speed required in a DevOps world?
DevSecOps Transformation Consultant, CA Technologies
Pete Chestna has more than 25 years of experience developing software and leading development teams and has been granted three patents. Pete has been developing web applications since 1996, including one of the first applications to be delivered through a web interface. He led his... Read More →
Continuous deployment. It has been a goal for our organization since I started three years ago. Transitioning to CD is almost like climbing Mount Everest. Recently, we have made great strides, transitioning from releases every other week to every week. I will provide insights on how we got there.
Michele is a Senior Quality Assurance Specialist and Release Manager at Lucid, where she has been working on improving the testing process for three years. She speaks Japanese and loves visiting the country for vacations. In her free time, she enjoys playing with her pet guinea pig... Read More →
Richard Dawkins described memes as a being a form of cultural propagation, which is a way for people to transmit social memories and cultural ideas to each other. Not unlike the way that DNA and life will spread from location to location, a meme idea will also travel from mind to mind. Changing the mindset of any organization to a more humane approach to ops - including awareness of alert fatigue, burnout risk, and proactive vs. reactive approaches - can seem impossible. In this talk, I will discuss how the very DNA of an organization can evolve through the use of actionable communications from all levels - management, strategy, and practitioners. The “virus” of humane ops will infect your organization, providing a more sustainable approach to on-call, incident resolution, post-mortems, and more. There also will be copious references to the Neal Stephenson classic novel, Snow Crash. After this talk, you will have ideas of practical approaches to effect change in your organization, regardless of your level of influence. While not every group will use the same “viruses”, you will take away a good understanding of where to get started as Patient Zero.
Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting... Read More →
Arrested DevOps is hosted by Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, and Bridget Kromhout. ADO is the podcast that helps you achieve understanding, develop good practices, and operate your team and organization for maximum DevOps awesomeness.
Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences. Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting... Read More →
Admit it, we wear rose colored glasses when we make plans. Sure, we’re aware of potential challenges and we often give them voice. But, do we take a comprehensive approach to exploring the unhappy path? "Making space with TRIZ", one of 33 facilitation techniques called liberating structures, helps us challenge sacred cows safely and encourages heretical thinking. The question “What must we stop doing to make progress on our deepest purpose?” induces seriously fun yet very courageous conversations. Since laughter often erupts, issues that are otherwise taboo get a chance to be aired and confronted. Join Julia to participate in her favorite Liberating Structure, Making space with TRIZ, and learn how to be more antifragile by confronting the less than desirable truths lurking in the corners.
Julia is the co-founder of Lagom Solutions, a Lean/Agile consulting and training company that pulls from her 17 years of experience working in and managing teams at Turner Broadcasting, F5 Networks and LeanKit. Julia is passionate about teaching others how to tame the chaos of everyday... Read More →
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A few years ago Cloudbees introduced the pipeline build job. Instead of linking several freestyle jobs together, the pipeline build job uses a single file to define all stages of the build process and follows the metaphor of “infrastructure as code” by placing the build job manifest (Jenkinsfile) right in the repo along with the code to be built. In this workshop we’ll go over how the pipeline job works, how to implement it, and extend it. Enabling your developers to see into and control their build pipeline from code to production.
NOTE: This is a workshop and we'll be doing a lot of actual coding. Please bring/have access to the following things:
A laptop* that is capable of running a modern web browser
A GitHub account
Basic coding tools installed and set up on said laptop (git, text editor, web browser, etc.
*If all you have access to is a tablet or super slim low powered laptop, still come, but things may not be as easy to do using strictly a browser.
Michael received a degree from Utah Valley University in Information Systems, but even before that he has been involved with deploying and maintaining systems. For the past five plus years he’s been a system administration at an enterprise level. He currently works at Vivint Solar... Read More →
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Effective leadership and management is not about command and control. It’s about creating an environment where your teams can produce their best work. The secret to achieving this, however, may seem counterintuitive: do less. Pluralsight CTO Jody Bailey shares and conducts exercises on how to be an effective, results-driven leader and how to give your teams autonomy to innovate (without empowering them to go rogue).
Jody Bailey has served as the CTO of Pluralsight, the technology learning platform, since 2014. He brings more than 20 years of experience building and leading enterprise technology teams at companies like Fidelity Investments, Verisign and AtTask (now WorkFront), where he successfully... Read More →
Things I think about - How do we solve the customer's problem before they even realize it's a pain point? Where are the constraints? When does process become the problem? How do we get everyone including sales and support on board? Have the beagles been fed or are they begging in... Read More →
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Agenda: 1. Introduction 1. Who am I? 2. Why should you care about anything I have to say? 2. Answering the big question: What makes a system microservices-based? 1. Is it enough to put pieces of the system on different servers? 2. What does the "micro" mean? 3. Storing and retrieving state with Event Sourcing and CQRS 1. Event sourcing 1. 2 flavors of messages (commands and events) 2. Streams 3. Brief tour of a basic event store 2. CQRS 1. Separating writing from reading 2. Writing a basic projection 3. Writing multiple projections from the same data 4. Converting a traditional MVC app to event sourcing 1. From RDBMS write to emitting events 2. Aggregating the events into a read model 5. Adding a service 1. Sending an email on user registration 2. Analyzing what impact this had on the rest of the system 6. What you've done so far 1. Review 2. Q&A 3. Where to go from here
Craig graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy with a degree in Maritime Transportation. He founded and leads the Quality Assurance team at Lucid Software. He has over 18 years' experience in the QA industry testing a variety of software including container ship load... Read More →
Yah, we want to hang with you, you may want to hang with us too Okay we get it. You have had spent a long hard day sitting in a folding chair. You have listened to speaker after speaker, attended workshops, and even though the talks were compelling and you did learn from the workshops informative, you are beat! All you want to do is head home, relax and kick back. The idea of hanging around after all this, to attend a social, may seem unnecessary. Perhaps even a little bit ridiculous. It is easy to think of reasons not to attend. But we would argue that you are not only missing a great deal of fun, you are missing out on some of the biggest opportunities reasons to attend a conference offers.in the first place. So what are the reasons you should stick around for the social? Old Friends, New FriendsSLC DevOps Days attendees are drawn from all over Northern Utah. And as someone recently said, in Utah, companies come and go, but you always have the people. The SLC DevOpsDays evening social is your chance to grab a Sodaliscous soda or local microbrew, and start a conversation with those you haven’t seen in a while or those you just met. It’s a time when you can build a relationship with sponsors or get a demo. Or you can commensurate your greatest oh snap moments, which have helped shape your career. We talked a lot of Serious, now lets Play!Aside from offering dirty soda, what are we doing this year? SLC DevOpsDays is proud to host ESKAPED ™ escape room. A well tuned DevOps team should constantly be pushing boundaries and working to solve complex problems together, in this scenario you and your team (notably you don’t need to bring your team, we will have random groupings as well) will need to apply this same level of cooperation, and team problem solving to ultimately escape. Sneak peak? Get Locked in 1969, you will feel like you stepped into this groovy era, unfortunately you stepped into a locked room, you have X minutes to solve puzzles, find clues, and push the button that opens the door so you can Eskape! Build your Network and the Utah Tech CommunityIn a rapidly evolving world we rely on our networks to advise us and keep us on track. In exchange, we give back where needed. Often, as you engage and chat with peers or industry mentors in person, they are giving you advice you probably cannot just Google-perhaps even some special sauce! Outside of Meetups, it can be challenging to make these connections and have these conversations. The evening social is a space to talk shop and broaden your network. There is space and time to share ideas with someone in a similar role as you from another company. It’s also great opportunity for you to introduce your network to your team and vice versa. You never know what future projects and plans may stem from these in-person meetings!
Julia is the co-founder of Lagom Solutions, a Lean/Agile consulting and training company that pulls from her 17 years of experience working in and managing teams at Turner Broadcasting, F5 Networks and LeanKit. Julia is passionate about teaching others how to tame the chaos of everyday... Read More →
This is the real-life story of evolving a company from a traditional, siloed org to a cutting-edge DevOps structure. We built an organization to deliver products that empowered hundreds of product engineers to own their services in an environment with strict compliance controls, and you can too.
Robert is an experienced technology executive, system architect, and Google Developer Expert for Cloud Platform. At Workiva he created and led the Infrastructure & Reliability organization that empowered dozens of engineering teams to release and own container-based microservices... Read More →
Tech companies face unique cultural challenges. From relentless competition and tight timelines to the peculiar ways of coders and industry stars to the uniquely connected and networked industry itself, the idiosyncrasies of Tech make for cultural challenges that often get overlooked amidst the pressure to innovate and market products and solutions. These cultural challenges hinder dialog, accountability, innovation and productivity—the very things tech companies must cultivate in abundance if they wish to stay relevant. Tech leaders often address these challenges with new processes and streamlined strategies— greater innovation—but no amount of technological pizazz can compensate for a less-than-optimal culture. The sources of human behavior must be targeted, and research shows that just a few high-leverage skills can empower leaders to tap into the values of team members, foster dialog, and spur collaboration and innovation. Leaders who employ these skills can influence tech teams for lasting change, improving morale and increasing productivity. In this session, Vice President of Professional Services at VitalSmarts and leadership development expert Steve Willis will identify the challenges unique to Tech and train skills for improving the unwritten rules, or underlying code, of tech culture.
Emily Gregory, M.D., is the Vice President of Development at VitalSmarts and a dynamic speaker. She has consulted leading healthcare institutions, including UMass Memorial Health Care, Endo Pharmaceuticals, the National Library of Medicine, and the American Association of Critical-Care... Read More →
What if metrics is the secret ingredient to amazing DevOps? We've all probably heard of CAMS in DevOps: Culture, Automation, Measurement, and Sharing. The right metrics, used the right way, touch all of these points and make everything just a bit better. The most innovative organizations use metrics to measure the right things so they can make their software development and delivery awesome. You want to measure the right things, too - but where should you start? You need to know what you want to measure, what not to measure, and what to watch out for. Because the secret is that metrics shape your culture - and Nicole will show you how.
Dr. Nicole Forsgren is the VP of Research & Strategy at GitHub. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful... Read More →
Do you want to run your platform on Kubernetes? Do you want want to do it without bogging your developers down in the implementation details? Come learn how! All skill levels welcome.
Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and Custom controllers allow you to create powerful customized primitives in Kubernetes that let you create dynamic applications and automate complex tasks. Carson will take you through a step by step process of creating six different custom Kubernetes controllers in Go.
If you are planning to attend the workshop please try to come prepared with the following components:
* kubectl installed and ready: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/ * golang 1.8 or newer installed and ready to use: https://golang.org/doc/install * glide installed and ready to use: https://github.com/Masterminds/glide#install * A local clone of https://github.com/carsonoid/kube-crds-and-controllers
There will be time at the start of the session to work around any problems you may have encountered during setup. But it's best for everyone to come as prepared as possible.
Carson has a deep passion for CICD, Kubernetes, Docker, and Distributed systems. Not just for building and managing these systems, but for finding ways to make them accessible and useful. Carson loves being a cloud native and open source liaison to Weave and the hundreds of developers... Read More →
We have all worked with THAT person. You know, the one who is annoying, the one who seems to always disagree, think they understand the situation better then you do. They don’t quite fit in, are maybe a little annoying. It’s possible we have worked with more than one, perhaps an entire department. They think they know but they CLEARLY don’t. And every discussion, meeting, interaction and bit of collaboration is an act of divine patience. After which you are compelled to gather your compatriots and “get out of the building” for a bit of therapy. Getting work done is SO much easier with those who get it. But what if it’s easier, though frail? What if the answers you come up with are not “right” and create technical/product debt without you knowing? Maybe being skilled at navigating “other” will not only create an “antifragile” system but will take you, as a leader, to the next level, well above peers and executives alike? Come workshop what these conversations can look like and see how navigating discomfort thru to innovation suits you! Limited space and come ready to play.
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This fun and engaging workshop uses Lego's and Scrum simulation game to introduce Agile development in a way which can be easily understood by participants from different areas of organizations.
Join this session to experiment with optimizing a flow of work through the entire organization. Visualize negative effects of long sprints and deferred deployments. Learn how to work as a team and iterate through the product development lifecycle using DevOps principals.
Amplify feedback loop, bring in security and evolve towards continuous value delivery - all using LEGOs.
The Salt project is already very powerful Python based DevOps platform that ships with almost 500 remote execution modules and just over 300 state modules, it has the means and the ability to support many different systems and environments, but that doesn’t mean that they all suit your needs perfectly. By extending Salt with your own modules or building enhancements into existing ones, you can bring the functionality that you need to increase your productivity. In this talk, first we’ll start by looking at the Loader system that drives Salt and how we could add an entire new subsystem. Then we’ll move onto writing a new remote execution module and then look at how we can use our remote execution module in a state module for configuration management. Finally we’ll take a look at how to extend some of other subsystems of Salt such as engines, beacons and returners.
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You and I know the value of DevOps. That's why we're here! However, time and time again I have walked into a company that doesn't see enough value in QA, DevOps or automation, so they invest very little. How they got that idea is beyond me, but I do know how to change the mindset and perspective of anyone you speak with, including your executives. QA and DevOps face many of the same challenges like Culture, Legacy Systems, managing environments, etc. It's time we work together to create a plan to overcome these. We both want to make the process faster, more secure, and reliable to increase confidence and decrease times and spending, but so many organizations make this harder than it needs to be. Whether you are the only DevOps or Automation Engineer in the org, have a Director that is completely against automation, or struggling to get to the rhythm you want, I want to show you what properly used QA can do and what you need in order to change their minds by working on "culture" first, and then proving our value.
Carlos Kidman is the QA Engineering Manager at Jane.com, founder of the QA community called "QA at the Point" in the heart of Silicon Slopes, and creates other content like podcasts around everything that is QA and the different processes, approaches, and overall strategies that different companies are using.From QA Engineer to Senior A... Read More →
