Developer experience (DevEx) is all about removing friction from the CI/CD or DevOps software delivery process. This track looks at tools and best practices for delivering quality code at speed, while also ensuring a smooth developer flow -- even when things go wrong, which they inevitably will. Join us to hear stories that are both real world and aspirational, and that are about how the best teams have combined innovations in technology, process, and culture to keep developers happy while shipping code and delivering value to the business.
Track: DevOps & DevEx: Remove Friction, Ship Code, Add Value
Track Host: Tracy Miranda
Director of Open Source Community @CloudBees
Tracy Miranda is director of open source community at CloudBees, where she works closely with the Jenkins & Jenkins X communities. A developer and open source veteran, Tracy is on the board of directors for the Eclipse Foundation. Tracy has a background in electronics system design and holds patents for her work on processor architectures. She writes for JAXenter.com and Opensource.com on tech, open source, and diversity.
Who Broke Prod? - Growing Teams Who Can Fail Without Fear
In a world where we can deploy software and infrastructure changes within seconds, it’s reasonably easy to break stuff. When the inevitable bad stuff happens, humans tend to look for someone to blame. Research has shown that the most productive teams are those who don’t have to fear blame. On high-performing teams, people feel safe taking risks, making mistakes, and learning from them – so how do you build an environment where it’s OK to fail? In this talk we’ll explore the factors that contribute to psychological safety on a delivery team. We’ll look at some of the steps that leaders and team members can take to foster a culture of blameless failure that encourages innovation and collaboration. We’ll look at soft-skills, CI/CD practices, retrospective processes and tooling that can help you to build a culture of trust and ownership within your own team.
Emma Button, COO and Co-founder @nubego Cloud Consulting
Tracks
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Evolving Java & the JVM
6 month cadence, cloud-native deployments, scale, Graal, Kotlin, and beyond. Learn how the role of Java and the JVM is evolving.
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Languages for Specific Domains
We're polyglot developers. Learn languages that excel at very specific tasks and remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting in their specific domain.
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Modern Operating Systems
Decompose the modern operating system, LinuxKit, Containers, Unikernals, eBPF, and more.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Ever wondered how they do it? Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, BBC, Twitter, & more.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Rediscover CS in this applied track on how research is affecting software today.
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Architecting for Failure: Chaos, Complexity, and Resilience
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed system clustering.
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Architecting for the Cloud / Streaming Architectures
Cloud native architectures is a reality. Hear the war stories. learn the benefits, and dodge some of the pitfalls of running on the cloud.
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JavaScript: Powering the Modern Web
Explore the frameworks that make JavaScript so popular, and learn how JavaScript-based languages are revolutionizing frontend (and backend) development.
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Operationalizing Microservices: Design, Deliver, Operate
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on operating microservices.
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Don't $%@! Up the Culture
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion. How do you maintain the culture as you scale?
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DevOps & DevEx: Remove Friction, Ship Code, Add Value
Remove developer friction: CI/CD, fluent API, service meshes... anything that removes the friction in deploying & operating a system.
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AI/Machine Learning without a PhD
AI/ML is more approachable than ever. Discover how deep learning and ML is being used in practice. Topics include: TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more. No PhD required.
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Surviving Uncertainty: GDPR, Brexit, or Politics? Beyond DR
With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty today.
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Career Hacking
Strategies for advancing the skills that advance your career. Look for mentoring, speaking, empathy, and career paths.
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Advances in FinTech
Finance is king in London. What's happening and what should you be paying attention to with modern #FinTech
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Security from First Principles
How do you actually start with a security mindset? Learn techniques for making security a first-class concern.
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Tech Ethics: The Intersection of Human Welfare & STEM
What does it mean to be ethical in software? Hear how the discussion is evolving and what is being said in ethics today.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.