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

Sponsored sessions

9:25am–9:35am Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Securing the edge: Understanding and managing security events (sponsored by Oracle Dyn)
Location: Grand Ballroom Level: Beginner
Laurent Gil (Oracle Dyn)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 4 ratings)
Laurent Gil shares the latest cybersecurity research findings based on real-world security operations along with innovative approaches to managing and mitigating security events at the cloud edge. Read more.
9:50am–9:55am Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Test, measure, iterate: Balancing “good enough” and “perfect” in the critical path (sponsored by NS1)
Location: Grand Ballroom Level: Advanced
Kris Beevers (NS1)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
In critical path services such as DNS, stability is imperative above all else. Kris Beevers examines the trade-offs between risk and velocity faced by any high-growth, critical path technology business. Read more.
10:15am–10:20am Tuesday, October 2, 2018
How do DevOps and SRE relate? Hint: They're best friends. (sponsored by Google Cloud)
Location: Grand Ballroom Level: Non-technical
Dave Rensin (Google)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
SRE has exploded in the industry over the last two years, with the publication of two best-selling books from Google. Not surprisingly, there have been questions about how SRE and DevOps relate. Do they compete? Do they reinforce each other? The short answer is that they make each other better. Join Dave Rensin to hear why. Read more.
11:35am–12:15pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Bot or human? Applying machine learning to combating the bot epidemic (sponsored by Oracle Dyn)
Location: Sutton Center Level: Beginner
Laurent Gil (Oracle Dyn)
Bots now make up over 50% of website traffic and have become the primary source of malicious application attacks, from DDoS to sophisticated intrusions. Laurent Gil lays out what you need to know about bot traffic, different types of bots, and real-world applications of ML and AI to identify and defeat malicious bots. Read more.
1:30pm–2:10pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Performance anomaly detection at scale (sponsored by Salesforce)
Location: Sutton Center Level: Intermediate
Tuli Nivas (Salesforce)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Automated anomaly detection in production using simple data science techniques enables you to more quickly identify an issue and reduce the time it takes to get customers out of an outage. Tuli Nivas shows how to apply simple statistics to change how performance data is viewed and how to easily and effectively identify issues in production. Read more.
2:25pm–3:05pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
API security: What you absolutely need to know now (sponsored by Oracle Dyn)
Location: Sutton Center Level: Beginner
Laurent Gil (Oracle Dyn)
API-based integration is fundamental to business strategy and continued success, but the explosion of APIs is creating incremental security risks that must be addressed. Laurent Gil explains why API security is quickly becoming a key cross-cutting concern for everyone from DevOps to the CISO. Read more.