DevOpsDays Silicon Valley 2018
2018-05-17..2018-05-18
Mountain View, United States
who it's for
devops engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, developer advocates, test engineers
topics
service level objective creation; infrastructure as code pitfalls; pragmatic observability tooling; microservices cloud security; developer tool design and adoption; root cause analysis methods; testing strategies for services; container runtime and image standards; open source dependency governance; incident noise reduction and prevention; intern onboarding and mentorship; moving fast with complex systems
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks May 18th | Connie Lynne Villani | 13m |
Opening remarks review the code of conduct and translate “be excellent” into specific norms for interaction, walk through the day’s schedule with curated talks… | ||
| Bridging Change, Navigating the Gap | Jennifer Davis | 12m |
A personal account of returning from maternity leave after an 18 month arc and a baby born four weeks early leads to concrete takeaways: the DISC profile… | ||
| The Data Behind DevOps: What Does It Take To... | Nicole Forsgren | 31m |
Claims backed by surveys of over 23,000 data points: teams classified as high performers show 46x more frequent deployments, 440x faster lead time and 96x… | ||
| Building Developer Tools Your... | Amy Nguyen, Adam Barber | 28m |
Bad UX on internal tools causes real incidents and wasted time so build with concrete safeguards: the Python nila cli uses click and crashes when a color… | ||
| Are Your Interns Actually Sad? The Answer May... | Fatema Boxwala | 17m |
Shows concrete wins and concrete practices: an intern project cuts deployment from 12 to 3 minutes, another migrates a service to Kubernetes, and someone… | ||
| How To Be Happy Being Average | Katy Farmer | 17m |
Argues that small teams should stop copying Netflix/Google and focus on metrics-first choices that actually fit limited people and budget, showing a concrete… | ||
| Ignite: Keep Calm And Carry Yarn | Karen Bruner | 06m |
Claim: knitting during meetings improves focus and memory backed by a cited doodling study; practice keeps hands busy and prevents dozing. Shows concrete… | ||
| Ignite: On Being A Developer Advocate | Jay Gordon | 05m |
Developer advocacy trades years of on‑call burnout for a role that uses MongoDB, cloud platforms, blogging and breaking things to build reproducible demos… | ||
| Ignite: Managing Security Across All Devices... | Sanjay Shitole | 05m |
Describes a working pipeline that programs and deploys security policy across clouds using an SDK for Go and Ansible and an infrastructure as code framework… | ||
| Ignite: Lessons From An Idaho Potato Farmer | David Laulusa | 05m |
Claim: participation beats passive watching, summarized as agitator spectator participator — agitators rile and complain, spectators only consume… | ||
| Ignite: Hackers Would Like You To Put In Long Hours | Ryan Prior | 05m |
Evidence links long shifts to higher error rates so treat tired ops raise hazard rate as a real threat model: small slips like misencrypted keys or an error… | ||
| Ignite: Learning to Share | Karen Bruner, Cads Oakley | 05m |
Teams share on-call rotations across developers SRE and security and that often produces silos where the wrong people get paged and cannot solve the problem… | ||
| Ignite: Root Cause Analysis Fact and Fiction | Dustin Collins | 05m |
Claims that the five whys method, born in Toyota plants, often fails: a leading problem statement, hindsight and outcome biases, and nonrepeatable, linear… | ||
| SLO Creation And You: Or, How We Learned To Stop... | Lisa Seelye | 24m |
FreshBooks pilots SLOs on rabbitmq, replacing noisy queue-length alerts with measured time in queue and a new 99.95% monthly availability objective. The team… | ||
| Infrastructure As Code The Hard Way | Artem Starostenko | 16m |
An open source step‑by‑step tutorial on GitHub walks a tester through launching a web app manually then automating the same workflow incrementally with real… | ||
| Consumption Is Fractal: Open Source... | Noah Kantrowitz | 23m |
Argues that open source use vastly outpaces contribution so projects collapse from burnout not bugs citing Heartbleed’s revelation that TLS work rested on 2–4… | ||
| You're So Empathetic, You Probably Know This... | Sarah Hagan | 29m |
Advocates using DISC and Clifton Strengths as psychometrically valid self‑awareness tools, shares team experiment where top-five strengths map tasks, and… | ||
| Modern Security With Microservices And The Cloud | Seth Vargo | 31m |
Argues security moves from perimeter locks to layered defense and gives concrete tooling and behaviors: dynamic time‑based revocable credentials implemented… | ||
| Test! (Some OF) Your! Code!: How To Write... | Frances Hocutt | 17m |
Starts by claiming the easiest wins come from pure functions, finding inputs and asserting outputs as documentation rather than perfect design. Builds a tiny… | ||
| Can you Call It A Container When It Has... | Jennelle Crothers | 13m |
Windows containers share the host kernel for server core images while Hyper-V containers run a tiny VM with their own kernel enabling extra isolation and even… | ||
| Dynamic Non-Events | Adrian Cockcroft | 22m |
Argues that safety is a dynamic non-event and proves it with concrete failures and margins: an MD‑80 jack‑screw wore to its tolerance after lubrication… | ||
| How To Be Your Security Team's Best Friend | Emily Gladstone Cole | 28m |
Follow the actionable items not the sloganry: keep an asset database correlated with DHCP logs for asset discovery so a weird IP maps to a known host, run… | ||
| No-Frills Observability For The No-Nonsense... | Eben Freeman | 18m |
Argues for building a small baseline instrumentation library that enforces structured logs, automatic context and timing, and abstracts transports so teams… | ||
| Moving Fast With Complex... | James Geboski Pedro, Marques da Luz | 23m |
Facebook Newsfeed pushes C++ binaries from source to production with per-commit build-and-test so each diff either builds or gets blocked, despite hours-long… | ||
| Closing Keynote: You're More Amazing Than you... | Wren Turkal | 22m |
A personal career arc that claims people are more amazing than they think and that steady small choices beat raw hustle, backed by concrete events: lost job… | ||
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