DevOpsDays Austin 2015: Ignite Block

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Ignite Block

Kick your DevOps knowledge into gear with a set of 6 Ignite lightning talks. 20 slides on 15 second auto-advance means they get their point across in 5 minutes flat!

Future Backwards - Byron Miller
Visualizing entrenched patterns and perceptions to help make sense of your decisions and desired states.

Sponsor Shoutout: Perforce

Scale Happened! Now we need Quality?!? - RC Johnson
The how to and how *not* to add a quality team to an existing Engineering team that’s already running over 2000 systems. Real world examples of adding quality analysts, automation tests, and moving to continuous integration & deployment.

Sponsor Shoutout: ThoughtWorks

Falling Lessons: 6 DevOps Trust Exercises - Shaun Mouton
It's very easy to fall back into familiar patterns of behavior when implementing nebulous concepts into an organization. I'll cover six simple exercises that can help you to keep CLAMS and DevOps.

Sponsor Shoutout: New Relic

Pairing with tmux and vim - Scott Baldwin
Remote workers have to use tools that allow them to work in realtime. This lightning talk will show how you can use tmux and vim to maximize your remote collaboration.

Sponsor Shoutout: Sumologic

Ten Quick Tips to Improve Your Chef Workflow - Sean Carolan
We asked some of the Chef experts in the community to contribute their favorite tips and tricks to improve their Chef experience. These include Ruby snippets, hidden features of the Chef DSL, helper tools and other productivity enhancers.

Sponsor Shoutout: StackEngine

10 Books - 5 minutes - Boyd Hemphill
Audible.com + You Commute = Better Devopsery. What is in your reading queue?

Sponsor Shoutout: New Iron

Speakers

Scott Baldwin

Oracle

I have helped organize DevOpsDays Austin for the last few years. Lately I'm a big fan of building happy teams. After a day of typical work, I pick up on the more important job of #dadops to four amazing kids.

Sean Carolan

Solutions Architect, Chef

Sean is a former Unix administrator who got the automation bug and never looked back. He's currently employed by Chef as a solutions architect, helping new customers and community members to get started with Chef.

Boyd Hemphill

Director of Evangelism, StackEngine

Boyd Hemphill is Director of Evangelism at StackEngine where he researches new an interesting ways to use Docker and other Linux container technologies.

RC Johnson

Director of Engineering, WP Engine

Software developer for 7 years, turned management. National Instruments, Bazaarvoice, and now Director of Engineering at WP Engine. Built the Bazaarvoice NYC office from zero to 60+, including two engineering teams. Grew the WP Engine R&D team from 15 to 50+.

Byron Miller

Cloud Engineer, HomeAway.com

Cloud Engineer at HomeAway.com. Passionate about socio-technical systems, theory & science enabling people to be awesome.

Shaun Mouton

Bored Certified DevOps Thought Lord™

Shaun Mouton is a Bored Certified DevOps Thought Lord™ and alternates between taking himself too and not at all seriously at a frightening rate. He has spoken at devopsdays austin before, is a co-organizer of the Austin Puppet User Group, and quite enjoys lemon pepper.

Monday May 4, 2015 1:25pm - 2:05pm
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Ignite!

DevOpsDays Austin 2015