Conference: March 4-6, 2015
Track: DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team
Location:
- Mountbatten, 6th flr.
Day of week:
- Wednesday
With delivery cycles shortening and tolerance for downtime evaporating, development and operations teams are under pressure to deliver faster with "always-on" reliability. DevOps and Continuous Delivery are key practices that allow teams to meet these challenges and reduce friction in their delivery cycles. In this track we’ll hear from leading thinkers, leaders and doers in the DevOps and Continuous Delivery world and learn what really makes the difference between traditional delivery and today’s high performance teams, giving us the knowledge we need to drive this change in our own organisations.
by Stephen Thair
DevOps Thinker, Speaker, Doer, Founder of The DevOps Guys
When I talk to product owners their #1 complaint is that it takes IT too long to deliver new features and innovation, yet according to the 2014 State of DevOps Report “high-performing organizations are still deploying code 30 times more frequently, with 50 percent fewer failures than their lower-performing counterparts”.
So why are these organisations leveraging DevOps practices to deliver better software, faster and how do they do it? What are the fundamental technical...
by Dave Farley
Co-Author of the book "Continuous Delivery"
Many people working in software development spend their careers without seeing what good looks like. Our history is littered with inefficient processes creating poor quality output, too late to capitalise on the expected business value. How have we got to this state? How do we get past it? What does good really look like?
by Matthew Skelton
DevOps practitioner, Consultant, Author, thought Leader and Community Organiser
Tools, Collaboration, and Conway's Law: how to choose and use tools effectively for Continuous Delivery and DevOps
With an ever-increasing array of tools and technologies claiming to 'enable DevOps' or 'implement Continuous Delivery', how do we know which tools to try or to choose? In-house, open source, or commercial? Ruby or shell? Dedicated or plugins? It transpires that highly collaborative practices such as DevOps and Continuous Delivery require new ways of...
by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator
Open Space
Join Eoin Woods, our speakers, and other attendees for the DevOps and Continuous Delivery Open Space.
What is Open Space?
Every day at QCon London, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
...
by Anna Shipman
Technical Architect on GOV.UK, Developer of vCloud Tools
Government IT is not traditionally associated with being at the cutting edge, but in recent years that has started to change with the creation of the Government Digital Service. One way GDS is at the forefront of modern engineering principles is with its adoption of a DevOps culture. In many ways the GOV.UK team is close to living the DevOps dream – developers support their own code in production (including out-of-hours), developers deploy and take turns on 2nd line, and most of our...
by Amy Phillips
Head of Test at Songkick
Songkick, a London-based Startup, helps music fans find out when their favourite artists are coming to town and get tickets. Like many development teams our release process had evolved over time due to the changing team and product requirements. By 2011 it became apparent that our release process was too heavy-handed for our rapidly growing development team, leading us to radically change our approach and adopt Continuous Deployment.
In this talk I'll explain what we...
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Wednesday, 4 March
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Architecture Improvements
Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.
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Big Data Frameworks, Architectures, and Data Science
As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team
As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.
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Engineering Culture
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
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Java - Not Dead Yet
Java is evolving to meet developer and business needs, from lambdas in Java 8 to built-in support for money types rumoured for Java 9.
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Mind Matters at Work
How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.
Thursday, 5 March
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Docker, containers and application portability
People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.
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Evolving agile
Reflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring ways of applying agile practices to increase business value.
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HTML and JS Today
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
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Internet of Things
What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.
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Modern CS in the Real World
How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.
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Reactive Architecture
How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.
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The Go Language
The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.
Friday, 6 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.
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Low latency trading
The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.
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Open source in finance
Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.
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Product Mastery
Come have fun with fellow PMs and BAs as you learn about Value Management. We'll even tell you dark tales of Snarks, Hippos and other obstacles.
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Taming Microservices
Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.
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Taming Mobile
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.
