DevOps journeys, failures, successes… get inspired!

Emily Freeman

Technologist and Author

Keynote and fireside chat: What’s DX Anyway?

Developer Experience, shortened to DevEx or DX, has risen as one of the primary concerns for product teams catering to developer audiences. Simply put, DX encompasses all the perceptions and feelings a developer experiences when engaging with a product or tool. But what makes great DX? And is it really that important? (Yes!)

This talk focuses on how to inject great developer experience into your design and strategy, ensuring developers love your products for years to come.

Get ready. After her keynote on DX, Emily will engage in a fireside chat with Marc Dillon. Prepare your questions.

Simon Wardley

Senior Researcher at DXC Technology

Situation Normal, Everything Must Change

In this talk, with the aid of Wardley Mapping, we will look at the history of cloud, the rise of serverless and the future of conversational programming.

Martin Woodward

VP Developer Relations at GitHub

The Future of Building

In this session, Martin Woodward takes us for a quick look back over the recent history of software development and then looks forward to what the future of delivering software will look like. How will AI change how we build, monitor and deploy? He will show what part the culture of your organization has to play and what are the most important things you can be doing now to prepare your business for the rapid changes we will be seeing in the next 5 years.

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent

Keynote: DevOps Superpowers with eBPF

eBPF is a revolutionary technology in the Linux kernel that provides the platform for a new generation of networking, observability, and security tools. In this talk, you’ll learn why it’s so powerful and why it’s generating so much excitement in the cloud native world.

FIRESIDE CHAT: eBPF for security

Andy Allred, Lead DevOps Consultant at Eficode, will chat with Liz about eBPF for security. Prepare your questions, it's an interactive session!

Marko Klemetti

CTO of Eficode

Today’s DevOps in the automotive and embedded world

As DevOps is maturing, it has naturally expanded into improving Development Experience, reducing cognitive load, integrating Security and lately, building Platform Engineering as a new kid on the block.

In this talk, you'll learn about the journey of modern DevOps from the automotive and embedded development perspective. I'll share learnings from actual cases.

Angela Timofte

Director of Engineering at Trustpilot

Scaling Trust: How Event-Driven Architecture Empowered Trustpilot's Growth

The Internet has the remarkable ability to connect people, but establishing trust in online interactions requires the right tools and information. This is where Trustpilot comes in. Founded in 2007 with a vision to create an independent currency of trust, Trustpilot needed to handle the increased traffic volume as demand grew.

In this session, we will explore how Trustpilot utilized event-driven architecture on AWS to scale while maintaining a high level of trust and transparency. The overview provides insights into Trustpilot's journey to build a secure and reliable platform on AWS that has earned the trust of millions of consumers and businesses worldwide.

Gunnar Grosch

Sr. Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Scaling Trust: How Event-Driven Architecture Empowered Trustpilot's Growth

The Internet has the remarkable ability to connect people, but establishing trust in online interactions requires the right tools and information. This is where Trustpilot comes in. Founded in 2007 with a vision to create an independent currency of trust, Trustpilot needed to handle the increased traffic volume as demand grew.

In this session, we will explore how Trustpilot utilized event-driven architecture on AWS to scale while maintaining a high level of trust and transparency. The overview provides insights into Trustpilot's journey to build a secure and reliable platform on AWS that has earned the trust of millions of consumers and businesses worldwide.

Stephen Walters

Field CTO at GitLab

Inspecting the flow of Value Streams

The 3 Pillars of Empiricism are Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. This means working in a fact-based, experience-based, and evidence-based manner as defined by the DevOps Institute. When inspecting the performance of delivery in your value streams, are you looking at the results subjectively or objectively? Is it based on feelings or facts? This presentation will define the measures we should inspect, how we should inspect and when is the best opportunity to do so, demonstrated using examples from GitLab.

Learning points:

• What are the typical measures for the flow of value?
• How to inspect value?
• When is the optimal opportunity to inspect?'

Steve Giguere

Developer Advocate with Prisma Cloud

What I Learned About Supply Chain Security!

Our journey to open source and GitOps heaven has exposed new security challenges as our CI platforms are exposed to the outside world. In this talk we'll look at a journey that started as an attack on our own GitHub Actions workflows. From there we'll show how simple misconfigurations or straight up bad practices in GitHub can leave a supply chain wide open to attackers.

Nathen Harvey

Developer Advocate at Google - DORA

The State of DevOps - Capabilities for Building High-performing Technology Teams

Technology drives value and innovation. At Google, we have learned a lot about what it takes to build and scale high-performing technology teams. Our own experience, combined with a multi-year research program by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team, can be used to help your team transform.

Spoiler alert: The best teams focus on getting better at getting better. You can do this, too!

Amanda Lewis

Developer Advocate at Google - DORA

The State of DevOps - Capabilities for Building High-performing Technology Teams

Technology drives value and innovation. At Google, we have learned a lot about what it takes to build and scale high-performing technology teams. Our own experience, combined with a multi-year research program by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team, can be used to help your team transform.

Spoiler alert: The best teams focus on getting better at getting better. You can do this, too!

Dave Farley

Author, Youtuber and Managing Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd

Fireside chat

Andy Allred, LeadDevOps consultant at Eficode, will chat with Dave about the 2022 State of DevOps report and software architecture. Prepare all your questions for Dave!

Sasha Rosenbaum

Principal at Ergonautic

Making DevOps Valuable

In the past decade, most organizations have invested in DevOps, and by now many of those efforts have failed to meet expectations of the executive sponsors. Organizations have brought in the latest and greatest tools and often sped up their development process without seeing a clear benefit. Some invested in culture only to see collaboration wane and any progress stall. The DevOps pendulum swings between focus on technology and culture. The buzzwords, rituals, and tools keep changing, but the results often seem to worsen over time.  

Optimizing any one part of a system is often suboptimal for the whole system. The goal should never be to adopt but to adapt to the opportunities and challenges of our organizations, but what are those? This talk will give attendees a framework to analyze the flow of work through their unique sociotechnical system, to understand the specific flow of value and propose metrics to identify and prioritize iterative improvements. The presentation will be technology agnostic but will focus on mapping capabilities that appropriate technical tools and skills should achieve together.

Nishant Roy

Engineering Manager at Pinterest

Incident Management

Keeping your systems up and running is the ultimate quest. However, eventually, something will go wrong. Learn about how to run an effective incident management program to minimize your downtime and maintain a strong culture of engineering excellence!

Lesley Cordero

Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times

Psychologically Safe Reliability Management

Psychological safety is particularly important for teams that manage service reliability. The vulnerability that comes with mitigating failures in production requires principles of trust, transparency, and inclusion that can only come from cultures that minimize harm and enable empowerment.

Cultivating this kind of culture requires leaders to think proactively about how to build processes and systems that enable teams to be healthy, productive, and effective, while being adequately prepared for situations when failure inevitably happens.

We’ll review the cultural consequences of chronic issues and the strategies we can use as leaders to align with our shared goal of building excellent teams. We’ll touch upon themes of privilege, power, and accountability.

John Willis

Distinguished Researcher at Kosli

Software Supply Chain: The Missing Links

FIRESIDE CHAT ON MODERN GOVERNANCE AND DEVOPS

Myles Ogilvie

Co-author of Sooner Safer Happier

Reimagining Risk & Control in a Rapidly Changing World

In today’s online world data leaks are the new oil spills. Managing risk is a commercial imperative. Continuous change requires continuous risk management and a re-imagination of how to improve outcomes. A new level of transparency is achieved and unexpected conversations with a broader range of business stakeholders opens up. Baking business agility principles into your governance and controls approach is a ninja move to enabling better outcomes!

Based on hands-on experience of introducing new ways of working within regulated financial institutions Myles Ogilvie will present patterns for improving Governance, Risk and Compliance capabilities in order to support the delivery of Better Value Sooner Safer Happier.

Andrew Rynhard

CTO of Sidero Labs, and creator of Talos Linux

Fireside chat: How to run super secure Kubernetes on-prem, hybrid, edge, or anywhere

Join Andy Allred, Lead DevOps consultant at Eficode, in a chat with Andrew Rynhard on how to run super secure Kubernetes on-prem, hybrid, edge, or anywhere.

It's an interactive session, bring up your own questions!

Sharon Goldberg

Researcher and CEO of BastionZero

How to MFA in 2023

After breaches at Okta, Uber, and Dropbox, it’s clear that hackers are coming after our Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

This talk covers these 2022 breaches, explains the crypto behind different MFA systems (TOTP, yubikey, Webauthn), and suggests ways to protect your org in the face of inevitable MFA attacks in 2023.

Romano Roth

Chief of DevOps and Partner at Zühlke Group

How to architect for continuous delivery?

In today’s world, everybody wants to do DevOps. But why? What problems are we trying to solve? Together we will take a step back and look at how you can architect for continuous delivery.

Javier Arias Losada

Senior Software Engineer at Spotify

Learnings from building a distributed cache platform at Spotify

During the last months, at Spotify we’ve been building a Cloud distributed cache service with sharding and replication running in Kubernetes. Client services use our own custom Java library on top of the opensource spotify/folsom Java memcached client.

The aim of this project was twofold: reducing costs and improving the developer experience+productivity. Now the service is serving literally millions of requests per second for some tens of microservices… but the road has been bumpy at times.

Travis Gosselin

Distinguished Software Engineer at SPS Commerce

Unleashing Deploy Velocity with Feature Flags

A lot of development teams have built out fully automated CI/CD pipelines to deliver code to production fast! Then you quickly discover that the new bottleneck in delivering features is their existence in long-lived feature branches and no true CI is actually happening. Feature flags provide you with the mechanism to reclaim control of your features and deployments.

Cecelia Martinez

Developer Advocate for Appflow at Ionic

Customizing your CI/CD for Mobile

Traditional CI/CD doesn’t begin to cover the specific complexities of mobile deployments. Learn what makes building, shipping, and maintaining mobile apps different from the web and how to customize your existing CI/CD infrastructure to accommodate releases on all platforms.

Paweł Piwosz

Lead Systems Engineer at EPAM Systems

Plan CI/CD on the Enterprise level

CI/CD seems to be simple. But let’s take a step back, and look at it from a helicopter view. Let’s think about the design CI/CD processes for the project, team, and even the whole company. Let’s go through the “architecture of CI/CD.” What areas should we cover? How to talk with stakeholders about CI/CD when we design the backbone of DevOps-driven organization?

LIGHTNING TALK: WHAT'S WRONG WITH DEV*OPS?

More than 10 years ago, we developed the term DevOps. Today, we see many different mutations like DevSecOps, DevQaOps, DevTestOps, and even more.

Are those names valid? Mean something? Do those terms really fit the DevOps culture? How much Agile is in DevOps today? Let’s find out!

OPEN DISCUSSION: WHAT'S WRONG WITH DEV*OPS?

DevSecOps, DevQaOps, DevTestOps... Are those names valid? Mean something? Do those terms really fit the DevOps culture? How much Agile is in DevOps today?

Join the discussion with Paweł and hear what your peers have to say.

Peter Murray

Principal Technical Architect at GitHub

Interactive Demo: Secure coding with GitHub and a Copilot

Learn about building a DevSecOps workflow using GitHub, Codespaces and a Copilot to ship changes fast and securely.

Dan Bennett

Director of Engineering at Sentry

You Build It, You Run It = Empowering Devs

When an application crashes or a page doesn’t load, who is on the hook for fixes? In many organizations, the responsibility is often put on the operations or reliability teams — but is that how it should be?To uncover the preferred culture of modern-day developers, Sentry surveyed DevOps specialists and site reliability engineers worldwide, to get a better understanding of their biggest challenges, headaches, and time sinks. In this session, we will discuss findings from the survey, the real preferred ownership model for engineering teams, and how Cloudflare built a culture of autonomy to empower its modern teams.

Sachin Fernandes

Tech Lead at Cloudflare

You Build It, You Run It = Empowering Devs

When an application crashes or a page doesn’t load, who is on the hook for fixes? In many organizations, the responsibility is often put on the operations or reliability teams — but is that how it should be?To uncover the preferred culture of modern-day developers, Sentry surveyed DevOps specialists and site reliability engineers worldwide, to get a better understanding of their biggest challenges, headaches, and time sinks. In this session, we will discuss findings from the survey, the real preferred ownership model for engineering teams, and how Cloudflare built a culture of autonomy to empower its modern teams.

Gerie Owen

Lead Quality Engineer at ZS

Reimaging the Role of Testing in DevOps; It’s a New Mindset

The transition to DevOps requires reimagination; both to the test process and to the role of the tester. This dual reimagination requires a new mindset and a commitment to quality from all members of the DevOps team. Continuous testing, increasing both velocity and quality by optimizing the test process to focus on mitigating business risk is the new foundation of the test process. 

Francesco Beltramini

Security Engineering Manager at ControlPlane

Untrusted Execution: Attacking the Cloud Native Supply Chain

Changying (Z) Zheng

Principal DesignOps Manager at Cloudflare

Leveraging Jira to expose Product Design Process, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration

Adriaan Knapen

DevOps Consultant at Eficode

Interactive demo: Outsource your Continuous Delivery Pipeline by Deploying Directly from Source-Code

Before any line of written code creates business value, we first need to deploy it. As a result, we have re-invented the Continuous Delivery-wheel time after time again.

However, many applications have source code which is structured rather similar. These similarities have allowed specialized tooling and platforms to emerge which offer reusable delivery pipelines. These products allow deploying straight from source code with minimal configuration needed. In turn, they offer completely managed and hardened continuous delivery pipelines, which relieves you from doing unnecessary undifferentiated heavy lifting.

In this interactive demo, we will together go from zero to a fully working continuous delivery pipeline for a web app on several different platforms. Showing you how powerful, frictionless and empowering their features can be.

Kalle Mäkelä

DevOps Lead at Sensible 4

Fire side chat: GitOps - the heart of software development in the automotive industry

GitOps is revolutionizing the way we deliver software in the automotive industry. However, there are a number of things to resolve to make it work in the real world. GitOps cannot be “inserted” into an existing system, but instead, it should be the driving force of the SW/HW architectural, operational, and business decisions.

Sohan Maheshwar

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Architecting in the Cloud for Sustainability

Efficiency in every aspect of cloud infrastructure can accelerate the sustainability of your workloads through optimization and informed architecture patterns.

This session will dive deeper into Sustainability techniques for your cloud workloads and provide direction on reducing the energy and carbon impact of your cloud architectures. The talk will also cover user patterns and software design that customers of any size can apply to their workloads. Let’s build a greener future together!

Matt Johnson

Developer Advocate at Prisma Cloud

Supply chain best practices, AKA, Easy things to improve your cloud security posture

Secure infrastructure, secure pipelines, secure dependencies, secure code, oh my! None of these alone will provide security, with attackers always looking for the weakest part of the system.Before you throw in the towel, join us as we step through risks from code to runtime, and look at super simple steps which can be taken to give ourselves a much healthier security posture!

Nigel Budd

Head of the Solution Architects team at Clearvision (now part of Eficode)

Escaping Water-Scrum-Fall

Water-Scrum-Fall is prevalent in software development, often organisations are stuck in a rut unable to escape from this way of working.  This session discusses the effect on productivity that this way of working has on an organisation and approaches to help organisations break out.

Mario Di Francesco

Professor at Aalto University and Senior DevOps Consultant at Eficode

Panel discussion: DevOps and Platform Engineering

How does building internal developer platforms support DevOps? What are the advantages and the challenges in their adoption? What is their impact on culture and ways of working?

Join our discussion with panelists: Bjørn Hald Sørensen (Head of Technology at Lunar), Tuomas Leppilampi and Dan Grøndahl Glavind (DevOps consultants at Eficode).

Take part in the discussion and bring up your own questions and comments.

Nataliya Remez

Director of Platform Engineering at PayPal

Lightning talk: How to scale your business in the cloud in a sustainable way

Today, more than 200 global organizations have signed The Climate Pledge and are pursuing ambitious carbon-reduction activities, including operational changes in the race to fight climate change and switch to renewable sources of energy. In this short talk we will explore how to continue scaling your business in the cloud while keeping track of minimising carbon footprint and energy consumption.

Sofus Albertsen

DevOps Consultant, Trainer & Team Lead at Eficode

Lightning talk: We all need to practice more SLSA

When buying food in the supermarket, there are a variety of regulations on what information the producer is required to give us. Yet, we serve our software without any "nutritional information" or ingredient list. This means that your customers have to "just trust" you. But in the last years, software supply chain attacks have shown that we need to make trust in security an integral part of our release.

In this lightning talk, I will introduce SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) and show the first easy steps you can take to enhance your security and ability to reproduce.

Ixchel Ruiz

CD Foundation Ambassador and DA/DX at Jfrog

Lightning talk: DevOps for Java developers

In recent years, how we approach development has dramatically changed with the rise of DevOps, Cloud Computing, and Container technologies. Many stakeholders at our organizations are ecstatic about Shift Left, DevSecOps and VSM, but how are we as Java developers embracing this new cultural shift? In this session we will explore the most common Critical Challenges to Adopt DevOps Culture in Software Organizations, best practices and some excellent news with success stories.