Build Systems that Drive Business
June 11–12, 2018: Training
June 12–14, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA

Sponsored sessions

9:00am–12:30pm Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Leveraging multiplatform DNS for web application resiliency (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)
Location: LL20 C
Matt Torrisi (Oracle + Dyn)
Matt Torrisi demonstrates how to build domain traffic easily by enabling multiplatform DNS, covers the important criteria in assessing DNS network compatibility, and walks you through using DNS as a traffic-steering platform. Read more.
9:00am–12:30pm Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Using AI to solve performance problems (sponsored by Salesforce)
Location: LL20 D Level: Beginner
Jasmin Nakic (Salesforce ), Jackie Chu (Salesforce)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
Jasmin Nakic and Jackie Chu share techniques to identify performance challenges by analyzing production data from Salesforce and other sources and explore the AI models to predict trends, detect anomalies, and troubleshoot performance problems. Read more.
9:25am–9:35am Wednesday, June 13, 2018
The internet versus your sites: Taking action against internet volatility (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)
Location: Grand Ballroom 220 Level: Non-technical
Kyle York (Oracle + Dyn)
Average rating: **...
(2.80, 10 ratings)
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. Read more.
9:50am–9:55am Wednesday, June 13, 2018
The secret to building and delivering amazing apps at scale (sponsored by Akamai)
Location: Grand Ballroom 220 Level: Beginner
Javier Garza (Akamai Technologies)
Average rating: **...
(2.62, 8 ratings)
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. Read more.
10:15am–10:20am Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Why Microsoft does DevOps (sponsored by Microsoft)
Location: Grand Ballroom 220 Level: Non-technical
Martin Woodward (Microsoft)
Average rating: ***..
(3.71, 7 ratings)
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. Read more.
11:25am–12:05pm Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Load testing reinvented for DevOps (sponsored by Tricentis)
Location: LL20 D Level: Beginner
Tim Koopmans (Tricentis)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Tim Koopmans explains how load testing is being reinvented for DevOps, covering where traditional load testing approaches fall short for Agile and DevOps, what’s needed to rapidly expose performance issues before they impact users, and new approaches to making load testing faster, simpler, and more realistic. Read more.
11:25am–12:05pm Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Bot or human? Applying machine learning to combating the bot epidemic (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)
Location: LL20 C Level: Beginner
Laurent Gil (Oracle + Dyn)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Bots now make up over 50% of website traffic and have become the primary source of malicious application attacks. Laurent Gil outlines what you need to know about bot traffic, discusses the types of bots you may encounter, from the simple to the sophisticated, and shares three real-world applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and defeat malicious bots. Read more.
1:15pm–1:55pm Wednesday, June 13, 2018
How Microsoft does DevOps (sponsored by Microsoft)
Location: LL20 D Level: Intermediate
Martin Woodward (Microsoft)
Average rating: ****.
(4.56, 9 ratings)
Expanding on the concepts from his keynote, Martin Woodward digs in behind the data and gives a technical summary of the steps Microsoft has taken in its journey to DevOps. Join in to discover what Microsoft has learned so far and the next areas it will focus on. Read more.
1:15pm–1:55pm Wednesday, June 13, 2018
What performance engineering means when lives are at stake (sponsored by Everbridge)
Location: LL20 C Level: Intermediate
Imad Mouline (Everbridge)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
During crisis situations when lives are at stake, your critical event management and messaging platform cannot allow even the tiniest performance glitch. Imad Mouline explores technical and compliance challenges for building highly reliable, highly scalable, and highly secure systems that comply with the most demanding clients' needs and the highest levels of international regulations. Read more.
2:10pm–2:50pm Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Jumpstarting your DevSecOps pipeline with IAST and RASP (sponsored by Contrast Security)
Location: LL20 D Level: Intermediate
Jeff Williams (Contrast Security)
Average rating: ****.
(4.60, 5 ratings)
Jeff Williams explains how to layer security tools on a CI/CD pipeline without disrupting it and demonstrates a fast, effective, scalable DevSecOps pipeline using free tools. Read more.
2:10pm–2:50pm Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Digital disruptions and best practices (sponsored by IBM)
Location: LL20 C
Ben Amaba (IBM)
Average rating: **...
(2.00, 1 rating)
The digital world has produced efficiencies, new products, and closer customer relationships. Yet as systems continue to gain complexity through emerging technology, the failure rates in budgets, schedules, and quality goals become increasingly unmanageable. Ben Amaba explains how to effectively use frameworks and methods to create business models that are intelligent and resilient. Read more.
3:40pm–4:20pm Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Lightweight mobile DevOps on GCP (sponsored by Google Cloud)
Location: LL20 C
John LaBarge (Google)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
John LaBarge details how to perform lightweight mobile DevOps on GCP, including building Android applications with Container Builder, doing functional testing with Firebase Device Lab, and distributing tested artifacts through Crashlytics Beta. Read more.
9:35am–9:45am Thursday, June 14, 2018
Netra Q&A: Scaling resource-intensive APIs (sponsored by Oracle + Dyn)
Location: Grand Ballroom 220 Level: Beginner
Kyle York (Oracle + Dyn), Richard Lee (Netra)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 6 ratings)
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. Read more.
10:05am–10:10am Thursday, June 14, 2018
EdgeControl: CDN tools to appease your inner control freak (sponsored by Verizon Digital Media Services)
Location: Grand Ballroom 220 Level: Intermediate
Dave Andrews (Verizon Digital Media Services)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
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. Read more.
10:25am–10:30am Thursday, June 14, 2018
Artificial intelligence versus actionable intelligence (sponsored by PagerDuty)
Location: Grand Ballroom 220
David Hayes (PagerDuty)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 3 ratings)
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. Read more.
11:25am–12:05pm Thursday, June 14, 2018
Application and business transaction monitoring in a container-orchestrated world (sponsored by AppDynamics)
Location: LL20 C Level: Intermediate
Mark Prichard (AppDynamics)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
Mark Prichard reviews available metrics from infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, and application code and shares options for viewing them holistically, thus providing a complete picture of how your applications are behaving and how users are experiencing them. Read more.
1:15pm–1:55pm Thursday, June 14, 2018
The "sound" of performance monitoring data (sponsored by Riverbed)
Location: LL20 C Level: Intermediate
Secondary topics: Systems Monitoring & Orchestration
Jon Hodgson (Riverbed)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
Much of the monitoring data we rely on is fundamentally flawed, lacking the resolution and accuracy needed to effectively detect and diagnose many issues. Digital signal processing science has overcome similar challenges for audio. Using sound as an example, Jon Hodgson explains how these principles are leveraged by organizations to improve the fidelity of their performance monitoring. Read more.