Deskflix Season Four: DevOps
Welcome to season four of Deskflix which can be attended from anywhere! Join our tech pioneers from Automation Logic, Delphix, and Puppet who will guide you through the transition to DevOps. DevOps is all about change . It’s about altering perceptions of who should do what; it’s about doing away with manual tasks through automation; it’s about incorporating the latest ideas and paradigms so that software can be delivered with speed, efficiency and security.
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>> Connect with 200 UK IT leaders from around the UK
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>> Ask industry experts your burning questions, real time
>> Network with sponsors in the virtual exhibition
>> Earn certification through CPD
Programme
Stuart Sumner, Editorial Director, Computing & Delta
John Leonard, Computing Research Director, Incisive Media
Multiple languages, 1000s of stored procedures, where would you even start, what changes would you make to build the trust and set you apart from your predecessors? Aubrey explains all, as an Interim CTO.
Aubrey Stearn, Interim CTO, Oakham LTD
Puppet: Modernising Change Management with Enterprise DevOps Nigel Kersten, Field CTO, Puppet Nick Moore, Senior Technical Lead, Puppet Enterprise DevOps teams often find themselves constrained by existing change management practices and processes, and wonder whether this struggle is avoidable. From working with many large enterprises around the world, we’ve observed this conflict on the front lines of IT operations.
The good news is that it is indeed avoidable. With the right mindset and adoption of automation, it’s entirely possible to satisfy your change management and governance requirements while still employing modern DevOps principles.
In this talk, we will cover:
- Real-life DevOps challenges within the enterprise space and how we tackle change management through DevOps practices in a digital transformation.
- How DevOps and Change Management can coexist peacefully by automating and standardizing changes based on known good patterns.
- How a Platform Team approach can help you move beyond the scalability issues of having multiple cross-functional DevOps teams.
Nigel Kersten, Field CTO, Puppet
Most of us have heard of the Site Reliability Engineering from Google, but still might be confused on whether there will be a positive impact of introducing SRE in your organisation. Another question is what’s the difference between DevOps and SRE. Generally speaking SRE is what happens when you ask software engineers to design operational functions, this is why it’s quite important to have SRE team balanced with both - traditional software engineers and ops engineers who have skills related to operational fields.
In this talk Nataliya will share some experience of how your organisation can benefit from introducing SRE and some common pitfalls of implementing it.
Nataliya Remez, Tech Manager, iZettle
Visit our partners in the exhibition hall!
Unsurprisingly, NetDevOps is all about applying the principles of DevOps to Networks. Yes it’s new but NetDevOps is being rapidly adopted by many organisations.
With NetDevOps, the Network shifts from being static and fragile, to programmable and agile. Network teams deliver via automated pipelines, share DevOps tooling and work at the same velocity as their DevOps peers.
In this session we will explore the benefits and practicalities of implementing NetDevOps.
Roger Dickinson, Developer Advocate, Cisco
- Microservices can provide greater flexibility for an application, making workflow more manageable, and with scope for repeatability, high availability and easier scaling.
- This session will discuss the pros, cons and practicality adopting microservices as well as related technologies such as serverless cloud and containers.
Nataliya Remez, Tech Manager, iZettle
Andrew Southall, Prev. DevOps Lead, HSBC
Guest Moderator: Mark Ridley, Founder, Ridley Industries
Addressing the elephant in the DevOps room - data
- With a Royal tale of heavy-lifting, Gary will address the business impact of the elephant in the DevOps room - data.
- Why making data fast, ephemeral and perhaps cloudy matters to your business.
- Moving data swiftly and securely without breaking the laws of physics.
- Empowerment - Simplifying data access so that your developers, test engineers and even their managers can control the data.
- The problem with automation; who's fault is it?
- Data Catalogues, time machines and taming the mainframe
Gary Hallam, Global Channel Engagement, Delphix
Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, OpsGenie and StatusPage form an integral part of many DevOps pipelines. The classic choices of deploying on premise, private cloud, public cloud (Software-as-a-Service) and third-party managed hosting and their implications are often not well understood by Atlassian users.
With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, new trends emerged, which created new challenges for Atlassian users and required many to reconsider their approaches.
This talk explores some of those trends. It highlights how a global lockdown challenged DevOps at its core, which caused some organisational silos to re-emerge. The talk then explores how deployment methods caused some of those challenges and how migrating to a fully cloud-based solution can help Atlassian users navigate through these challenging times.
Matt Muschol, Chief Technology Officer, Clearvision
Visit our partners in the exhibition hall! Join us for our lunch time quiz.
- Advice abounds for new adopters, but what happens when you are mid-DevOps and momentum starts to slow?
- This panel will offer advice for tackling the hump in the middle of your DevOps journey.
Chris Denton, DevOps Manager, Esure
Jujhar Singh, DevSecOps Practice Lead, The Economist
Aubrey Stearn, Interim CTO, Oakham LTD
Moderator: John Leonard, Group Research Director, Incisive Media
'User-centered cloud' - orienting cloud hosting services towards the user: software developers. Rather than many organisation's strategies which can become very abstract, technology-focused or commercially focused and use concepts like "multi-cloud" and "hybrid-cloud" which are reasonably meaningless to users. Organisations should focus on creating the best possible experience for software developers, whilst retaining efficiency through consistency and standardisation. A user-centred strategy would have a knock-on effect on approaches to legacy technology, cloud migration and tool selection.
Kris Saxton, Partner and Founder, Automation Logic
Dave Rogers, Independent Digital & Technology Consultant and Advisor, Automation Logic
Shifting left significantly reduces costs and diminishes release delays. By adding continuous security validation at each step from development through production you can progress with your security team from approving each release to approving the CI/CD process and having the ability to monitor and audit the process at any time.
In this session Sonya Moisset will focus on Pride in London (a project using Gatsby2, Contentful and Netlify) and show you how to create a secure CI/CD pipeline. She will explain how GitHub Marketplace helped the team with automating and improving their workflow. She will also outline what OWASP is and how to improve the workflow for your own open source projects using GitHub Marketplace applications.
Sonya Moisset, Tech Lead/DevSecOps & Lead Security Engineer, Pride in London & Photobox Group
We will cover how AIOps helps busy DevOps and SREs identify problems earlier, understand incidents better, and find root causes faster. By automatically correlating, aggregating, and prioritizing incident data in the tools they already use, it can help eliminate alert noise and speed up resolution times. We will highlight the benefits of anomaly detection, automatic incident enrichment and classification, auto-correlation and aggregation, continuous learning in order to build and deliver more perfect software.
Gregory Ouillon, CTO EMEA, New Relic
- Simon Skelton will present John Lewis & Partners’ DevOps success, and explain how they got to where they are.
- What advice can they offer other teams?
- Where next do they anticipate DevOps will lead them?
Simon Skelton, Platform and Operations Manager, John Lewis & Partners
Stuart Sumner, Editorial Director, Computing & Delta
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