DevOpsDays Austin 2015: Full Schedule

8:00am CDT

Registration Opens

Monday May 4, 2015 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Front Lobby The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

8:00am CDT

Breakfast

Bring your appetite for some Tamale House breakfast tacos!

Monday May 4, 2015 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Dining Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Food

9:00am CDT

Introduction & Announcements

Monday May 4, 2015 9:00am - 9:15am CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Keynote

9:15am CDT

Opening Keynote - Damon Edwards

Speakers

Damon Edwards

DTO Solutions, Inc.

Monday May 4, 2015 9:15am - 9:45am CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Keynote

9:55am CDT

The Coming Donkey Apocalypse

DevOps is growing in popularity and even usage in "the real world." It seems like we're slowly getting past unicorns only and seeing many "horses" do DevOps. Soon we'll see the mainstream market - the "donkeys" - start to pick it up and bend DevOps to its will. This talk will go over "the state of the union" of DevOps and provide some guidance for how to prepare for the donkey apocalypse.

Speakers

Michael Coté

Pivotal

I'm a sometimes industry analyst (having worked at RedMonk and 451 Research), corporate strategist (Dell), and former programmer. Now I work at Pivotal in technical marketing for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Cloud!You can see other talks of mine here: http://www.slideshare.net/cote/presentations... Read More →

Monday May 4, 2015 9:55am - 10:25am CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Main Track

9:55am CDT

Scoutapark - A Story of Pragmatic Dockerization

Limited Capacity seats available

ScoutaPark is the brain child of Dan Sheppard and his wife after struggling to find quality information on local public parks. With negligible funds to bootstrap this idea, Dan realized he was going to have to lean on friends and cheap offshore development teams if he wanted to put together a MVP to prove the concept.

Paul is a Snarky Devops Princess who is helping Dan out with operations and general devopsery so that Dan can focus on the product while the developers focus on writing code.

This is a story of a pragmatic use of combining Docker and Configuration Management tools to provide a delightful experience from local development by offshore developers all the way to production deployment and management.

Speakers

Paul Czarkowski

Managed OpenShift BlackBelt, Red Hat

Paul Czarkowski is a long-time practitioner of the dark arts of DevOps. Hailing from Australia, he moved to Austin,Texas to help build and run one of the largest and most successful online games. Now at Red Hat, Paul works to improve the operator experience by taking cloud native... Read More →

Dan Sheppard

Monday May 4, 2015 9:55am - 10:25am CDT
Theater The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Technical Track

10:35am CDT

Fixing Your Organization by Continually Breaking It

When we discuss DevOps, we often find ourselves mired in the "tools vs. culture" debate. A point often forgotten is the "amplify feedback loops" of DevOps "3 Ways" and how to build that into our cultures. In this talk, we'll look at the importance of continually breaking your organization with experiments, some surprising examples, and how to do it in such a way that you aren't left with a broken organization.

Speakers

J Paul Reed

Release Engineering Approaches

J. Paul Reed has over a decade of experience in the trenches as a build/release and tools engineer, working with such organizations as VMware, Mozilla, and Symantec. In 2012, he founded Release Engineering Approaches, a consultancy incorporating a host of tools and techniques to help... Read More →

Monday May 4, 2015 10:35am - 11:05am CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Main Track

10:35am CDT

Containerize Your Enterprise

Limited Capacity seats available

Give ops a better system, starting with a managed compute cluster. Containers take care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machines and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management. Come hear about containerization from Google.

Speakers

Zach Jordan

Zach is currently responsible for ensuring that Google's Cloud Platform business is successful across 20 states in US Central. He's spent the last 4 years at Google in Austin working with the coolest companies in the world to help them adopt Google Cloud technology. He's active in... Read More →

Monday May 4, 2015 10:35am - 11:05am CDT
Theater The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Technical Track

11:15am CDT

Staying Focused when inflicted with Conflicting Priorities

When workers ask about priorities, a “do all the things” answer can do more harm than good.
Attempting to increase the workload through a pipeline that can only handle so much is a futile exercise—it only increases interruptions that cause further delays.

Clear priorities are vital for reducing expensive context switching. But they are tough to get when competing requests from many customers arrive simultaneously.
This talk addresses what clear priorities can do for teams and how a sensible prioritization method helps teams increase throughput through a pipeline.

Speakers

Dominica DeGrandis

Director of Training & Coaching, LeanKit

Dominica DeGrandis trains organizations to use the Kanban method to improve workflow and throughput.She is keen on providing visibility and transparency across teams to spark attention in areas where change is needed. Dominica combines experience, practice and theory to help teams... Read More →

Monday May 4, 2015 11:15am - 11:45am CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Main Track

11:15am CDT

Smack Down: Containers vs Config Management

Limited Capacity seats available

What is the role of a config management tool such as Chef in a Docker world? Matt and Boyd will argue it out.

Slides to include:
* Idempotent vs immutable
* Cookbooks vs Dockerfile
* Who manages the hosts?
* What about data?!

Speakers

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.

Matt Ray

Director of Partner Integration, Chef

Matt Ray is an open source hacker working as the Director of Partner Integration for the systems integration platform and company Chef. He is an active open source contributor, resides in Austin, blogs at LeastResistance.net, podcasts on SoftwareDefinedTalk and is @mattray on Twitter... Read More →

Monday May 4, 2015 11:15am - 11:45am CDT
Theater The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Technical Track

11:55am CDT

Continuous Acceleration: Why Continuous Everything Needs A Supply Chain Approach

Today we write less code & consume more re-usable open source code. Innovation accelerates & complexity grows. Complexity is the enemy of quality. Poor quality creates break-fixes & slows dev. It’s a continuous loop.

Learn about software supply chain management strategies to accelerate delivery: scrutinize your 'suppliers,' minimize risk & bloat, and improve traceability, visibility & response times.

Speakers

Joshua Corman

CTO, Sonatype

Joshua Corman is CTO for Sonatype. Previously, Corman was a security researcher/strategist at Akamai, The 451 Group, and IBM Internet Security Systems. He co-founded Rugged DevOps and I_Am_the_Cavalry to encourage new DevOps/security approaches. He's adjunct faculty for Carnegie Mellon’s... Read More →

Monday May 4, 2015 11:55am - 12:25pm CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Main Track

11:55am CDT

Chef-DK Or How I Learned To Love Embedded Ruby

Limited Capacity seats available

I'll walk through Chef-DK and some use cases. I'll show the advantages of using Chef-DK now instead of the old gem/Gemfile way. I'll also Demo leveraging test-kitchen, chefspec, and serverspec.

Speakers

JJ Asghar

That Openstack Dude, Chef

Grew up in Austin, Texas. Father, husband, Eagle scout. Loves a good beer. He hears he presents like he talks; which annoys people but at the same time makes him feel comfortable.

Monday May 4, 2015 11:55am - 12:25pm CDT
Theater The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Technical Track

12:25pm CDT

Lunch

A famous Texas institution, Louie Mueller will be catering a BBQ lunch for the attendees. Bring your appetite!

Monday May 4, 2015 12:25pm - 1:25pm CDT
Dining Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Food

1:25pm CDT

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

VP Product Engineering, Evo Security

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 CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

Ignite!

2:05pm CDT

Openspaces Opening

We will all gather to determine on the day's openspaces topics and schedule!

Monday May 4, 2015 2:05pm - 2:35pm CDT
Main Hall The Marchesa, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, 78752

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