Top 10 DevOps questions that have raised more questions than answers (sponsored by Atlassian)

Mike Tria is the head of infrastructure at Atlassian, where he is responsible for the care and feeding of Atlassian’s cloud platform. His team is distributed around the world and provides SRE support, a common compute/storage platform, and Atlassian’s PaaS. Mike spent a few years in cloud-native startups, running engineering and data science. He also spent some time at Ning, running platform development for large-scale social networks before it was cool. He loves all things reliability and scale in the cloud.

Julian Dunn is a senior product manager at Chef Software, where he has helped launch Habitat, Chef’s application automation and delivery solution, as well as InSpec and Chef Compliance, Chef’s security automation product. Previously, Julian spent 15 years as a systems administrator and software engineer in industries ranging from broadcasting, advertising, and internet security to online media and finance. You can find his very occasional writing online at Juliandunn.net or more frequently on Twitter at @julian_dunn.

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Brandon Cipes is vice president of DevOPs at cPrime. Brandon has spent his career overhauling and refactoring teams, systems, software, and processes to bring the best solutions possible to all variety of technical and business challenges. He began in research, has been a part of multiple startups (one was even successful), moved on to corporate America, and now consults to organizations looking to modernize their approach to technology. He has a proven track record of conceiving and delivering large scale projects on time, utilizing the latest in cloud technology and the Agile and DevOps methodologies. Brandon is focused on people with a history of building teams, nurturing a healthy and productive culture, and developing sustainable solutions across multiple industries.