Schedule: Production Engineering, SRE, and DevOps sessions

Join Liz Fong-Jones to learn how taming the complex distributed systems you're responsible for requires changing not just the tools and technical approaches you use, it also requires changing who's involved in production, how they collaborate, and how you measure success. Read more.

Infrastructure as code and immutable images can make your systems radically more secure and improve team resilience, but Eleanor Saitta outlines why taking advantage of them requires rethinking the role of ops both technically and philosophically. Read more.

Michael Hobbs takes a look at how best to ensure your service owners can succeed with responsibilities and concerns that were traditionally the domain of ops teams prior to the deployment of Kubernetes for production load within a business. Read more.

Jon Hall explores the challenges faced by DevOps practitioners as their role and scale grows in established enterprises and they get drawn into existing support structures. Join him to learn why swarming is a better alternative for DevOps than traditional tiered support. Read more.

In software development, test-driven development (TDD) is the process of writing tests and then developing functionality to pass the tests. Rosemary Wang explores methods of adapting and applying TDD to configuring and deploying infrastructure as code. Read more.