Build Systems that Drive Business
Sep 30–Oct 1, 2018: Training
Oct 1–3, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Kris Vincent

Kris Vincent
Manager, Developer Solutions, Gannett | USA Today

Kris Vincent manages the developer solutions team at Gannett for USA TODAY NETWORK. A man of many hats, Kris has been everything from an IT director of a local nonprofit to a DevOps engineer for a cloud-based telephony company. He’s a husband, father, Go developer, DevOps sorcerer, and coffee enthusiast, although not necessarily in that order. In his professional life, he’s passionate about automation, clean code, and comfortable collaborative work environments. Outside of work, he’s passionate about his wife and kids, rock climbing, off-roading, politics, STEAM educational programs, comic book superheroes, and archery.

Sessions

4:45pm–5:25pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
From silos to a single pane of glass at USA TODAY NETWORK
Monitoring, Observability, and Performance
 Location: Beekman/Sutton North Level: Intermediate
Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration
Bridget Lane (Gannett | USA Today), Kris Vincent (Gannett | USA Today)
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Three years ago, technical teams at USA TODAY NETWORK were completely siloed, making improvements and troubleshooting difficult and often blind to the rest of the technical organization. Bridget Lane and Kris Vincent explain how drastically the teams' tool belts, thought processes, and goals have changed as the company moved from silos to a single pane of glass. Read more.