4–7 Nov 2019

Jennifer Davis
Cloud Operations Advocate, Microsoft

Jennifer Davis is a cloud operations advocate at Microsoft. Previously, she was a principal site reliability engineer at RealSelf and developed cookbooks to simplify building and managing infrastructure at Chef. Jennifer is the coauthor of Effective DevOps and speaks about DevOps, tech culture, and monitoring. She also gives tutorials on a variety of technical topics. When she’s not working, she enjoys learning to make things and spending quality time with her family.

Sessions

14:20–15:00 Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Location: R2

Prioritizing trust while creating applications

Building Secure Systems

Jennifer Davis (Microsoft)

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(4.50, 2 ratings)

Time and money are generally the resources we focus on when building applications. Yet we can’t buy trust; it builds slowly and can be broken quickly when we don’t factor it in to our development process. Jennifer Davis examines how to leverage security practices to enable an all-team approach to security. Read more.

9:30–9:50 Thursday, 7 November 2019

Location: Hall A7/A8

The ultimate guide to complicated systems

Jennifer Davis (Microsoft)

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(5.00, 2 ratings)

Building and maintaining distributed systems is hard. Industry tools and recommended practices are evolving at an ever-increasing velocity. New platform choices reduce infrastructure management and add operational complexity obscuring the value of operation skills. Often, bureaucratic decisions drive practices and tool choices. Read more.