DevOpsDays Boston 2016
2016-08-25..2016-08-26
Boston, United States
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as the organisers put it
Thursday, Aug 25, 2016 - Friday, Aug 26, 2016 DevOps Days is coming to Boston Park Plaza ! Download Program Booklet (PDF) Dates Thursday, Aug 25, 2016 - Friday, Aug 26, 2016 Location Boston Park Plaza Propose Propose a talk! -- Register Register to attend the conference! Program View the program. Speakers Check out the speakers!
who it's for
devops engineers, operations engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, security engineers, bizops analysts
topics
laptop cluster management; TLS/SSL debugging; code review for operations; metrics-driven DevOps implementation; oncall equity and rotation; user onboarding and retention; enterprise git repository management; fullstack serverless at scale; access control and privilege lending; continuous improvement processes; technical writing for engineers; collaboration norms at scale
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Art of The Laptop Cluster | David N. Blank-Edelman | 26m |
Claim: running services on a laptop fails in different ways than production, so shipping a laptop container is not enough. Evidence: Docker (2013 promise) and… | ||
| This Conference Will Pay For Itself... | Corey Quinn | 29m |
Practical negotiation steps for changing jobs: establish market rate from peers and Glassdoor, delay money talk until ask as late as possible, never be first… | ||
| Telling your Story: Speaking for Non-Speakers | Kirsten Hunter | 24m |
Claim: stories beat scripts — rehearse only your opening lines, not a full script, and use slides as images and cues rather than text. Concrete tips include… | ||
| Debugging TLS/SSL | John Downey | 27m |
Claims that many developers cannot debug TLS and shows concrete fixes: check certificate formats (PEM/DER, PKCS#1 vs PKCS#8, PKCS#12, Java keystores), inspect… | ||
| Code Review for Operations | Spencer Krum | 30m |
OpenStack infrastructure uses 600 repositories and runs roughly 100,000 reviews over ~20,000 commits in six months, so expect scale problems: small patches… | ||
| Care and Feeding of Engineers | Andy Rosequist | 26m |
Argues for a concrete career model: 75% technical / 25% manager roles where technical leads keep authority while delegating nontechnical work to PMs or… | ||
| Implementing Metrics-Driven DevOps: Why and How | Andreas Grabner | 25m |
Claims that CI/CD can stop bad builds early by extracting architectural metrics from tests and failing regressions. Shows Jenkins and Selenium hooked to app… | ||
| Oncall Equity | Liz Frost | 26m |
Claims that equal time != equal burden and offers concrete fixes: use pager overrides for short or full-shift swaps, publish written runbooks and clear… | ||
| If You Build it, They Will Come: But Will They Stay? | Jill Jubinski | 29m |
Recruiting and retention hinge on specifics: recruiters actually search LinkedIn, Twitter and GitHub, stock candidates, and value three tangible intangibles —… | ||
| Building an enterprise git repository (the hard bits!) | Matthew Barr | 26m |
Relays concrete operational choices and pain points: chosen Bitbucket Server data center with active/passive sites and 6,000+ repos already present, added… | ||
| Fullstack Serverless at Scale | Steve Faulkner | 31m |
Bustle builds a fully serverless platform on AWS that handles 10–20 million Lambda events per day, serving server-side rendered HTML via Lambda + API Gateway… | ||
| BizOps and you | Leon Fayer | 22m |
Claim: putting sales/marketing/finance into DevOps decisions raises impact by changing what gets measured and how incidents get handled. Describes monitoring… | ||
| Lending Privilege | Anjuan Simmons | 25m |
A clear, actionable case for using personal power to change hiring and visibility gaps: the concrete claim is that individuals can lend privilege to others and… | ||
| STEM Skills through Minecraft | Sara Jarjoura | 23m |
Claim: a child learns DevOps by running a real server instead of playing only in-game — a Docker container on DigitalOcean hosts a Minecraft world, an Ansible… | ||
| Continuous Improvement and Development Drives... | David Fredricks | 25m |
Claim: adopt Continuous recruiting that embeds recruiters with engineering, automates low‑value steps, and makes TA act as brand ambassadors. Evidence… | ||
| Writing So Your Words Are Read | Tracy Osborn | 25m |
Claim: readers are not you, so documentation succeeds when it shows concrete steps, scaffolds missing knowledge, and makes tasks feel possible. Practical… | ||
| Redefining collaboration norms as your company grows | Elliot Murphy | 26m |
Argues that tearing down silos blindly hurts more than it helps and that strong intra-team links plus weak links between teams create resilience; recommends… | ||
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