Listed below are the preliminary Velocity Culture sessions and workshops confirmed to date. Additional sessions will be added as they are confirmed. Schedule subject to change.
System administrators love Chef because it gives them flexibility to integrate all aspects of their infrastructure such as monitoring and trending tools with applications. Software developers love Chef because it helps them take care of the muck so they can focus on writing great applications. Read more.
Getting tight operationally means strengthening the resiliency of both your stack _and_ your organization's response to issues that arise. Outage postmortem meetings done wrong can be stress-filled blamefests, and done right can be collaborative illustrations of Resilience Engineering. I'll use Etsy.com examples to illustrate sticky topics such as Root Cause Analysis and Human Error. Read more.
What do you do when everything falls apart during your product launch? This talk will cover tools for surviving the worst, and making the most of it. We'll look at post-launch checklists to help recover rapidly, managing expectations to instill confidence in your customers and management, keeping up team morale, and successful post-mortems. Read more.
The old model of "productionizing" a release after it leaves development is flawed and often leads to disaster. Using lessons learned inside leading web companies, Lee and Damon make the case for bringing fully automated deployment and testing, along with a "production mindset",to every step of the application lifecycle, from early development environments through to customer-facing environments. Read more.
Ah, great technical sessions. Ready to get back to work to try that uber geeky tool? Consider the folllowing questions: How do you keep your organization scalable, adaptable, secure and performing? How do you check the health at the human level? Or 'measure' the devops gap to make sure the collaboration stays at a top-notch level. Ideas and insights from recent client engagements. Read more.
Adam Jacob returns with Choose Your Own Adventure 2: Electric Boogaloo ;-) Read more.
A panel discussion featuring folks from sites which have had large outages in the past months. Discussion topics would cover causes, resolutions, process changes after the outage, cultural changes after the outage, and lingering after affects with regards to how the userbase reacted. Read more.