DevOps
Presentations
Making a Lion Bulletproof: SRE in Banking
Within ING, the largest bank of the Netherlands, we aim to be a tech company with a banking license. We have adopted DevOps as our way of working, use open source tools and technologies and adopt best practices from industry and the engineering community. However, we always have to take into...
Artificial Pancreas System: #WeAreNotWaiting in Healthcare
What happens when an open source community develops around a group of patients who are frustrated with their medical devices? You end up with an artificial pancreas (of course!). Dana Lewis, a founder of the open source artificial pancreas (OpenAPS) movement, discusses open source innovation in...
Past Presentations
Incident Response: Trade-Offs Under Pressure
The increasing complexity of software applications and architectures in Internet services challenge the reasoning of operators tasked with diagnosing and resolving outages and degradations as they arise. This talk will give a glimpse into how other fields handle incident response and paint a...
Zero to Production-Ready in Minutes
The fabric of Netflix's approach to building new highly-available services is evolving. The Runtime Platform Team is focused on improving developer productivity while simultaneously making it simpler to build and maintain the high-availability services that Netflix expects. Starting with...
Presidential Campaigns & Immutable Infrastructure
Hillary for America was arguably one of 2016’s largest startups. It was in the news every day, raised billions of dollars, and grew at an incredibly fast rate. There was even a very splashy exit. But what isn’t often talked about is the technical infrastructure behind it. Over the course of...
Interviews
Presidential Campaigns & Immutable Infrastructure
QCon: Aside from supporting a website, people might ask why would a Presidential campaign need immutable infrastructure? What are some use cases that the team had to handle and how large was the team?
Michael: I joined Hillary for America at the beginning of a campaign in June of 2015. At that point, we had just a few things that we were doing. These were things like collecting money online, trying to get people to sign up for emails, or keeping engagement with web site.
Read Full InterviewNo Microservice Is an Island
You worked at Capital One first and then switched over to Square. So what were you working on at Capital One?
At Capital One, I was working on the first layer of services that our mobile app and website hit. Any new mobile or web request would first reach the service owned by my team. This service implemented security and customisation logic and then made a server request to the broader Capital one ecosystem. Capital One has a lot of...
Read Full InterviewPlatforms at Twilio: Unlocking Developer Effectiveness
What are you doing today?
I'm a senior director of engineering for our platform. Twilio is comprised of 100+ different engineering teams. We share the same engineering DNA as Amazon and Netflix, so we have smaller autonomous 2-pizzas teams that are responsible for a subsection of our overall puzzle. There are vertical teams and horizontal teams. Vertical teams...
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