Keynotes: Distributed Systems & DevOps Conference

Dave Andrews
CDN Architect and Evangelist, Verizon Digital Media Services

David Andrews leads CDN architecture and technical evangelism at Verizon Digital Media Services, Previously, he brought several web security products to market at Verizon and worked for startups in the Los Angeles area, building security products in the virtualization... Read More.

10:05am Thursday, June 14, 2018

EdgeControl: CDN tools to appease your inner control freak (sponsored by Verizon Digital Media Services)

Change is inevitable, but the aftereffects can be both good and bad. Having the right tools is one way to meet this challenge. Dave Andrews explains how to wield the power of a global 50 Tbps application delivery network, featuring 125+ points of presence, to ensure maximum availability during and after a change. Full Details

Astrid Atkinson
Director, Software Engineering, Google

Astrid Atkinson is director of software engineering at Google, where she leads development frameworks. During her 10+ years at Google, Astrid has built infrastructure and managed a variety of engineering teams and spent more than five years on call for... Read More.

9:05am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Reliability from the ground up: Designing for five nines

Astrid Atkinson discusses techniques for building systems that are resilient by design. Full Details

Tamar Bercovici
Senior Director, Engineering, Box

Tamar Bercovici is a senior director of engineering at Box, where she leads the database, content, and enterprise teams in building out the core of the Box Content Management Platform. Tamar also runs the annual Box company-wide hackathon and has... Read More.

9:55am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Lessons learned while evolving Box’s database infrastructure

When Tamar Bercovici joined Box, the entire platform was running on a single MySQL DB host fronted by a simple pool of memcached servers. Tamar details how the team has evolved the Box database stack to handle an ever-growing query load and dataset. It now comprises hundreds of servers serving millions of queries per second over hundreds of billions of data records. Full Details

Nicole Forsgren
VP of Research & Strategy, GitHub

Dr. Nicole Forsgren is VP of Research & Strategy at GitHub. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies... Read More.

10:10am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Secrets and surprises of high performance: What the data says

Nicole Forsgren shares results and stories from four years of research to uncover the secrets and surprises of what really makes high-performing technology-driven teams and organizations. Full Details

Javier Garza
Developer Evangelist, Akamai Technologies

Javier Garza is a multilingual technology evangelist at Akamai, where he helps the largest websites on the internet run faster and more securely. Javier has been working with computers for the past 25 years in Spain, Germany, and the USA—he... Read More.

9:50am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The secret to building and delivering amazing apps at scale (sponsored by Akamai)

We are more mobile now than ever. Although we use our mobile devices to optimize our time and do more anytime, anywhere, our apps are still too slow and cannot cope with our fast-paced lifestyle. Javier Garza details the ingredients you need to build and deliver an amazing app your users will love. Full Details

Julia Grace
Director, Infrastructure Engineering, Slack

Julia Grace is the head of infrastructure engineering at Slack, where she grew her team from 10 people to 60+. She excels in high-velocity environments, especially during hypergrowth, and loves solving challenging engineering problems at scale. She advises early- and... Read More.

10:30am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Scaling yourself during hypergrowth

When Julia Grace joined Slack two-and-a-half years ago, the company had fewer than 100 engineers. It's now at more than 350, and her own team grew from 10 to 50 people in 18 months. Julia shares tips and stories from the leadership front lines as she learned how to rapidly scale herself and her leadership team during a period when her job was substantially changing every six months. Full Details

David Hayes
Director, Platform Strategy, PagerDuty

David Hayes is the director of platform strategy at PagerDuty, where he is scaling the most reliable way of waking up the IT world, and a full-time time data nerd. Dave can be comfortably blamed for anything you hate about... Read More.

10:25am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Artificial intelligence versus actionable intelligence (sponsored by PagerDuty)

Artificial intelligence has been almost here for 50 years, but we don't need to wait for it to escape the laboratory. Adding a manageable dose of actionable intelligence to your operations management workflow can save you time and aggravation. PagerDuty will talk about how AI's limitations and how it can decrease your noise and suggest possible courses of action. Full Details

Kyle Kingsbury
Principal, Jepsen

Kyle Kingsbury, aka Aphyr, is a computer safety researcher and independent consultant. He’s the author of the Riemann monitoring system, the Clojure from the Ground Up introduction to programming, and the Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness. He grills databases... Read More.

9:05am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Jepsen 9: The center cannot hold

Kyle Kingsbury explores anomalies in three distributed systems—Tendermint, Hazelcast, and Aerospike—and shares general strategies for correctness testing using Jepsen, a distributed system testing harness that applies property-based testing to databases to verify their correctness claims during common failure modes: network partitions, process crashes, and clock skew. Full Details

Richard Lee
CEO, Netra

Richard Lee is CEO of Netra, a company that helps enterprise make sense of the tsunami of imagery by adding structure to photos and videos, making them searchable and more useful. This technology enriches social media and digital... Read More.

9:35am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Netra Q&A: Scaling resource-intensive APIs (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)

Kyle York and Richard Lee explore Netra’s high-performance computing environment, focusing on how the company's AI and deep learning models process tens of millions of images and videos each day in a time- and cost-effective manner. Along the way, they explain what worked, what didn't, and why you need an Agile, hybrid infrastructure if you want to build an AI business at the scale of social. Full Details

Bryan Liles
Staff Engineer, Heptio

Bryan Liles is an engineer at Heptio. When he is not writing software to help move teams to Kubernetes, he gets to speak at conferences on topics ranging from machine learning to building the next generation of developers. In his... Read More.

9:45am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Declarative application configuration: Mixing the old with the new

Declarative application management enables developers and operators to simplify their configurations while deploying into increasingly complex environments. Bryan Liles explains how to evaluate and integrate these new practices into existing continuous integration pipelines. Full Details

Nikki McDonald
Content Director, O’Reilly Media

Nikki McDonald is a content director at O’Reilly Media, where she writes, edits, and works with the industry’s leading practitioners to develop books, online courses, and training videos to help engineers and developers collaborate more effectively and create and deploy... Read More.

9:00am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Thursday opening welcome

Program chairs Nikki McDonald, Ines Sombra, and James Turnbull open the second day of keynotes. Full Details

9:00am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Wednesday opening welcome

Program chairs Nikki McDonald, Ines Sombra, and James Turnbull open the first day of keynotes. Full Details

Kris Nova
Senior Developer Advocate, Heptio

Kris Nova is a senior developer advocate at Heptio focusing on containers, infrastructure, and Kubernetes. Kris is also an ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Previously, she was a developer advocate and an engineer on Kubernetes in Azure at... Read More.

9:35am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Running stateful applications in Kubernetes: Is it worth the risk?

Kris Nova explores the current state of running stateful applications in Kubernetes, the tooling gaps you'll want to watch out for, and the four metrics that will help you determine if it's worth the risk. Full Details

Renee Orser
Vice President, Engineering, NS1

Renee Orser is the vice president of engineering at NS1, where she oversees all delivery and operations of NS1’s engineering organization. Renee brings deep expertise in facilitation, cross-functional communication, and brash problem solving to NS1’s teams. Previously, Renee spent a... Read More.

10:20am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Observability of team health: Deciphering and reacting to organizational feedback (sponsored by NS1)

Engineering managers build the strongest teams by listening to their engineers, continuously calibrating their own alerts, and driving change management based on the feedback sourced from within their engineering organization. Renee Orser explains how to monitor the human networks within your engineering teams using models similar to your distributed technology systems. Full Details

Natalie Silvanovich
Security Engineer, Google

Natalie Silvanovich is a security researcher for Google’s Project Zero. Her current focus is on script engines, particularly understanding the subtleties of the scripting languages they implement and how they lead to vulnerabilities. She is a prolific finder of vulnerabilities... Read More.

10:25am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

JavaScript, security, and the case for feature simplicity

JavaScript engines are frequently targeted by malicious attackers, and dozens of vulnerabilities are reported in them every year. Most of these occur due to errors made while implementing well-specified features. Natalie Silvanovich discusses the link between feature complexity, developer error, and security vulnerabilities and the importance of considering implementation difficulty in design. Full Details

Ines Sombra
Director, Engineering, Fastly

Ines Sombra is director of engineering at Fastly, where she spends her time helping the web go faster. Ines holds an MS in computology with an emphasis on cheesy ’80s rock ballads. She has a fondness for steak, fernet, and... Read More.

9:00am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Thursday opening welcome

Program chairs Nikki McDonald, Ines Sombra, and James Turnbull open the second day of keynotes. Full Details

9:00am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Wednesday opening welcome

Program chairs Nikki McDonald, Ines Sombra, and James Turnbull open the first day of keynotes. Full Details

James Turnbull
VPE, Glitch

James Turnbull is VPE at Glitch. A longtime member of the open source community, James is the author of a number of books about open source software. Previously, he was a CTO in residence at Microsoft, founder... Read More.

9:00am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Thursday opening welcome

Program chairs Nikki McDonald, Ines Sombra, and James Turnbull open the second day of keynotes. Full Details

9:00am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Wednesday opening welcome

Program chairs Nikki McDonald, Ines Sombra, and James Turnbull open the first day of keynotes. Full Details

Martin Woodward
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Martin Woodward is the principal program manager for DevOps in Microsoft, where he focuses on Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. Previously, Martin was executive director of the .NET Foundation, helping drive Microsoft’s move to open source,... Read More.

10:15am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Why Microsoft does DevOps (sponsored by Microsoft)

Martin Woodward leads a whistle-stop tour of Microsoft's seven-year DevOps journey, explaining why the company embarked on this transformation and what benefits it has already seen. Full Details

Kyle York
General Manager, Oracle + Dyn, and Vice President, Product Strategy, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle + Dyn

Kyle York is the general manager and vice president of business and product strategy for the Dyn global business unit at Oracle. He is a longtime Dyn executive, having joined in 2008. Over the years, Kyle has spearheaded company growth... Read More.

9:35am Thursday, June 14, 2018

Netra Q&A: Scaling resource-intensive APIs (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)

Kyle York and Richard Lee explore Netra’s high-performance computing environment, focusing on how the company's AI and deep learning models process tens of millions of images and videos each day in a time- and cost-effective manner. Along the way, they explain what worked, what didn't, and why you need an Agile, hybrid infrastructure if you want to build an AI business at the scale of social. Full Details

9:25am Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The internet versus your sites: Taking action against internet volatility (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)

When the internet is not bombarding your DNS with bogus requests, it’s trying to execute malicious SQL queries and crawling your site with bots (some good, some bad). Join Kyle York to learn how to take action. Full Details