GOTO London 2015
2015-09-16..2015-09-18
London, United Kingdom
who it's for
software engineers, devops engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, security engineers, agile coaches, technical leads, mobile developers
topics
secret management with Vault; continuous delivery pipelines; container operations and Docker security; microservices on private cloud platforms; Git internals and pack files; resource oriented computing (NetKernel); agile scaling and XP practices; platform language diversity management; cloud migration and cost control; embedded threat modelling and red teaming
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| ING's Journey to Agile | Henk Kolk | 30m |
Bank moves from Prince2/CMMI to full agile and DevOps scale: 400 agile teams, earlier 180 combined dev+ops teams where developers take on on‑call production… | ||
| Introduction to Vault | Seth Vargo | 51m |
Vault presents a concrete secret-management system: an HTTP API with first-class clients that issues dynamic secrets (per-host Postgres users that auto-expire… | ||
| #NoProjects Beyond Projects - Why Projects Are Wrong & What To Do Instead | Allan Kelly | 53m |
Argues that fixed-end-date projects turn working software into dead software and drive bad engineering tradeoffs, cites Capers Jones’s ~2% requirement churn… | ||
| Agile Revisited | Daniel Terhorst-North | 31m |
Argues that Agile’s values survived but its practice morphed into Scrum as brand power, leaving technical excellence neglected and leading to rituals without… | ||
| XP in the 21st Century | Rachel Davies | 26m |
Modern XP practices focus on concrete changes: daily pair rotation and regular mob programming sessions, small 4–5 person teams that spend 30–40% of time on… | ||
| Your Object Model Sucks & an Introduction to Resource Oriented Computing | Peter Rodgers | 56m |
Argues that software should treat everything as addressable stateful resources rather than objects, using a resource-oriented runtime called NetKernel that… | ||
| Technical Leadership | Laura Paterson, Patrick Kua | |
Maps common tech‑lead failures to concrete fixes: shows a content API team chased a two‑month launch that promised a 20% signup lift, where a new lead imposes… | ||
| Understanding Git's Behaviour | Steve Smith | 50m |
Git stores everything as hashed objects: blobs, trees, commits, with branches and tags as simple refs that just point to hashes (two hex digits spread objects… | ||
| Lean Enterprise - Enabling Innovative Culture | Barry O'Reilly | 34m |
Companies lose lifespan from 67 years to 15 years and 87% of S&P 500 firms vanish or merge since the 1960s, so the prescribed response is many small… | ||
| Are You Really Delivering Customer Value? | Karen Martin | 24m |
Value stream mapping applied to a software group exposes 16 weeks lead time with only 16 days of touch time, AR 1% and 7% → 38% complete and accurate… | ||
| The Rationale for Continuous Delivery | Dave Farley | 55m |
Argues continuous delivery by showing concrete results: a bank with a 103‑day change cycle vs an exchange with a 57‑minute cycle, Amazon deploying on average… | ||
| When DevOps Meets Security | Michael Brunton-Spall | 27m |
Government Digital Service builds gov.uk and proves rapid delivery is possible, claiming deploy six times a day and showing that traditional accreditation… | ||
| The Platform Wars, Begun They Have | Alexis Richardson | 24m |
Argues Docker wins because of the economics of convenience, claiming around 800 million downloads, and defines a three‑layer stack: automated infra, a… | ||
| Ok, so I have all these Containers, what now? | Mandy Waite | 46m |
Shows how Kubernetes plus Docker actually runs real apps: uses kubectl, replication controllers, pods, services and volumes to deploy MySQL, memcached and a… | ||
| Second Time Around | Rod Johnson | 48m |
Building a new startup focuses on concrete choices: assemble five people on board with complementary skills, allocate founder equity early using tools like the… | ||
| Developing Like There's No Tomorrow | Frank Lyaruu | 26m |
A wristband with an 8-bit microcontroller, 900 MHz radio, RFID, multicolor LEDs and a button connects to PoE base stations (Raspberry Pi–class nodes) that form… | ||
| DevOps Next | Nicole Forsgren | 27m |
Research shows fully transformed DevOps teams deliver dramatic outcomes with measurable numbers not promises: 30x more frequent deploys and 200x faster lead… | ||
| Rugged Software Engineering | Nick Galbreath | 46m |
Argues that adopting continuous deployment plus real-time instrumentation actually reduces security risk: a cloud scanner surfaces live attacks (shows SQLMap… | ||
| Welcome Keynote | Adrian Cockcroft | 16m |
Argument for developer ownership of production code with microservices sized so one developer understands them, continuous delivery where the typical build… | ||
| Docker Security | Adrian Mouat | 33m |
Five-round comparison: VMs win isolation and track record, containers win attack surface, controls and auditing, resulting in a draw. Concrete advice: use a… | ||
| The Polyglot Platform: How Zalando Manages Language Diversity | Bhuvana Vijayan | 32m |
Zalando runs a shift from a single Java monolith to an API‑first microservice platform (70+ deploy units), moves infrastructure to AWS, and standardises APIs… | ||
| Riak, Redis, Apache Solr & Spark: Deploying with the Basho Data Platform | Bryan Hunt | 44m |
A deployable platform that wires Riak (default 3x replication, 64 partitions), Redis and Solr into Spark jobs is described and demoed: a Redis proxy in C… | ||
| What is Rugged all About? | Joshua Corman | 39m |
Argues that fixing software supply chains cuts broken releases and security debt: 41 OpenSSL CVEs one year, Maven Central sees 17 billion downloads, average… | ||
| Xamarin Forms: Native iOS, Android & WP Apps from one C# Codebase | Mike James | 50m |
Describes using Xamarin.Forms to build native iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps from one C# codebase: an embedded lighting-control web UI gets replaced by a… | ||
| Getting Your System into Production and keeping It There | Eoin Woods | 43m |
Argues production needs four provable properties: functional correctness, stability/predictability, capacity and security, and gives a three‑level framework —… | ||
| Scaling Open Source Projects from 0 - 1000 Commits | Barak Michener | 32m |
Outlines concrete milestones from initial git init through ~1,000 commits: start with README, license and CONTRIBUTING, hit 200 commits when you ship first… | ||
| The Road To Being Rugged | Shannon Lietz | 36m |
A 12-person DevSecOps team builds self-service scanners and APIs, runs all security in AWS (S3, EMR, CloudFormation templates) and abandons Splunk for big-data… | ||
| Migrating Applications to the Cloud in a Cost Effective Manner | Andy Bennett | 36m |
Automated machine‑learning chooses instance types and JVM/OS knobs, runs 100–200 tests per instance using a Latin hypercube plus hill‑climbing and regression… | ||
| Agile, Lean & Rugged - The Paper Edition | Inés Sombra, Adrian Colyer | 38m |
Parnass argues that software ages unless it is designed for change, recommending modularity, information hiding, documentation and planning for replacement… | ||
| Whispered Secrets | Eleanor McHugh | 54m |
Practical, code-first walkthrough that demonstrates working prototypes: a Go TLS example and an AES-over-UDP demo that show hybrid crypto (RSA for key… | ||
| Agility in The Cloud Era | Tibi Covaci | 44m |
Cloud infrastructure becomes a development artifact: storage, network and compute are the three primitives and provisioning moves from weeks to minutes — a… | ||
| Panel Debate Led by | Daniel Terhorst-North | 40m |
Panelists argue for concrete practices: mandatory internal tech talks at some firms, a continuous delivery pipeline used to satisfy regulators, and hands‑on… | ||
| Keeping Your Cloud Footprint in Check | Coburn Watson | 31m |
Netflix runs 50–100k instances across three AWS regions with hundreds of microservices that autoscale, using red/black deploys and monthly cross-region… | ||
| Building Powerful Mobile Apps w/ IBM MobileFirst Platform | Martin Gale, Andrew Ferrier | 33m |
Shows IBM MobileFirst deployed as Docker containers so the MobileFirst server and adapters run inside Bluemix, with a quick IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation… | ||
| Panel | Nicole Forsgren, Joshua Corman, Daniel Terhorst-North, Adrian Cockcroft | 25m |
Panel reports a measurable link between DevOps practices and firm performance using a cross-sectional survey with objective measures (stock tickers, company… | ||
| Rugged Reperimitersation | Chris Swan | 53m |
Argues that the old perimeter — “bad outside, good inside” — is broken and cloud and microservices force an application‑centric perimeter built from VPCs… | ||
| Panel Discussion Led by – Nicole Forsgren | Nicole Forsgren | 26m |
Panelists argue that change starts with concrete experiments not grand plans, recommending pick one small experiment and measure if it moves the needle… | ||
| Planes, Trains, Boats & Automobiles (and Maps) | James Findlay | 23m |
Argument that HS2 frees capacity on existing lines for freight by shifting passengers onto a 350 km/h top speed high‑frequency network (trains about every… | ||
| How to Effect Change in the Epistemological Wasteland of App Security | James Wickett | 28m |
Application security shifts from lectures to engineering: defend with integrated rugged testing inside CI pipelines using Gauntlet (Cucumber-based) and… | ||
| Rugged Building Materials & Creating Agility with Security | David Etue | 32m |
Argues that DevOps creates the first real chance to do security as code by fixing inventory, config and change visibility; cites a CA survey of ~14,000… | ||
| Panel Discussion Led by – Joshua Corman | Joshua Corman | 25m |
Advocates hire developers into security because coding skills shorten ramp time about fivefold and teams prefer people who can write code not just write… | ||
| nothing matches | ||