John Leonard, Computing Research Director, Incisive Media

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

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

'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