Schedule: DevOps and SRE sessions

Track host

Nicole Forsgren (DORA) is the CEO and chief scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA). Nicole is an IT impacts expert who is best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She is a consultant, expert, and researcher in knowledge management, IT adoption and impacts, and DevOps. In a previous life, she was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst. Nicole has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and her work has been featured in various media outlets, peer-reviewed journals, and conferences. She holds a PhD in management information systems and a master's degree in accounting.

9:30–13:00 Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Kubernetes 101

Location: King's Suite - Sandringham

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft)

Average rating:

(4.24, 17 ratings)

In this hands-on Kubernetes workshop, Bridget Kromhout guides you through an interactive look at all the moving parts you need to know about to use Kubernetes in production. Read more.

13:15–13:55 Thursday, 1 November 2018

Better incident command for improved MTTR

Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Beth Long (New Relic), Elisa Binette (New Relic)

Average rating:

(5.00, 4 ratings)

A skilled incident commander improves time to resolution and decreases stress all around. Join Beth Long and Elisa Binette to learn how to build strong incident management skills at the individual level and shape organizational processes to drive down MTTR, making both customers and engineers happier. Read more.

14:10–14:50 Thursday, 1 November 2018

Data-driven reliability

Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Yaniv Aknin (Google Cloud)

Average rating:

(4.71, 14 ratings)

Architectural choices are often driven by nonfunctional requirements like reliability and scalability. Unfortunately, it can be deceptively hard to specify the right requirements. Big decisions made hoping to hit X nines often fail to ensure the nines measure the right thing. Yaniv Aknin shares lessons learned working in this space at Google, helping you focus on metrics that matter. Read more.

15:40–16:20 Thursday, 1 November 2018

The ops in serverless

Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite

Jennifer Davis (Microsoft)

Average rating:

(4.20, 5 ratings)

Rather than a future of NoOps, we have increased need for specialized operations engineering. Jennifer Davis looks at the role of operations in serverless, exploring testing, monitoring, and debugging functions in AWS. Read more.

16:35–17:15 Thursday, 1 November 2018

Don't panic! How to cope now that you're responsible for production

Location: Blenheim Room - Palace Suite

Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration

Euan Finlay (Financial Times)

Average rating:

(4.43, 7 ratings)

Euan Finlay shares practical tips and advice on setting up an incident response framework, what to do when "everything is on fire," and how to improve things afterward—along with some horror stories of his own. Read more.