Day 2 Recap: DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2017

Whew! What an amazing second day at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in San Francisco today! It was another jam-packed schedule full of talks covering the themes of: Getting Business Buy-In, Security & Compliance, Ops & Next-Generation Leadership, Architecture, Technology for Technology Leaders and of course, Experience Reports! Topo Pal and Jennifer Brady from Capital One got the day started off right—several people are now adopting the “JFDI” acronym. Tisson Matthew from Alignment Healthcare followed that up with some powerful messages about the Amazon Prime Now story—one of the top insights from this unicorn could be summed up by the following: “At Amazon, every team continuously deploys; very little coordination between teams, by design.” The final keynote of the morning featured an old friend and new speaker at DevOps Enterprise Summit, Jason Cox and Brian Scott from The Walt Disney Company. The deep dive into technology was astounding—we definitely learned about the use of containers and how they can help make the “magic happen.”

After the keynotes ended, the breakout sessions were buzzing. With so many options, attendees definitely needed to choose their schedule and path wisely. But don’t worry, if you missed any sessions, you can view the slide repository on GitHub here >>>. People learned about many new DevOps patterns and practices from leaders in healthcare, financial services, retail and technology—just to name a few! There were plenty of technical dives into the technology and processes—several sessions in particular focused on how to integrate security measures into the DevOps initiative and how to architect and a panel of experts explored the many facets of DevSecOps.

The day came to an end with two more keynote sessions from our friends Dr. Nicole Forsgren, CEO of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and John Allspaw, CTO/Researcher of Adaptive Capacity Labs. Forsgren highlighted lots of data about high-performing organizations and how transformational leaders are able to drive, support, and amplify the work in organizations. Allspaw highlighted how the cognitive activities of people, working with representations of systems, are what really make the business work. Additionally, he expanded on the value of postmortems and how the incidents of yesterday form the architectures of tomorrow.

Cool stuff!

Well, that wraps Day 2—read on for more top quotes, takeaways, and photos from the day. More reminders from Day 3 as well!

Want to watch the sessions from Day 1? Check out our YouTube Channel here >>

TOP QUOTES & TAKEAWAYS FROM DAY 1

On blameless postmortems: try though you might, “you can’t fire your way to reliablity.”-@otterbook #DOES17 pic.twitter.com/KzKaQhCczm

— J. Paul Reed (@jpaulreed) November 14, 2017

“Managers – push through the pain. I was a developer for 20 years and I thought pain was normal. It’s not.” We can create a better, more humane work environment. @BryanFinster @Pen_der_graft @DOES_USA @RealGeneKim #DOES17

— Eric Chen (@erchen) November 14, 2017

My new favorite acronym JFDI (Just F… Do It!) @TopoPal. #DOES17

— Suzanne Nielsen (@suzannenielsenT) November 14, 2017

OH at #DOES17: Measure impact, not activity.

— Sam Guckenheimer (@SamGuckenheimer) November 14, 2017

No shortage of books to read!! #DOES17 pic.twitter.com/6py7FHiOnD

— Marie Gatti MBA, PMP (@gattim) November 14, 2017

If DevOps unlocks the economic potential of IT, which has had the brakes on for 20 years, we will see a true economic transformation#DOES17

— Rob England 🦓 (@rob_england) November 14, 2017

Not your avg bank. #CapOne if a bank can deploy multiple times a day and be compliant, there are no excuses left #DOES17 pic.twitter.com/dAgSLqqUSH

— Mike Kavis (@madgreek65) November 14, 2017

Ask yourself…

do you have loosely coupled relationships at the people level AND at the tech level.
cc: @nicolefv @devops_research #DOES17 pic.twitter.com/EIYNA8EDN2

— J:Hand (@jasonhand) November 15, 2017

Governance vs Compliance

Compliance = checking the box
Governance = Awareness and active management of risk@capitalone at #Does17

— Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell) November 14, 2017

"Cost of delay can change over time" @t_magennis #DOES17

— Dominica DeGrandis (@dominicad) November 14, 2017

8% of companies are now releasing everyday @RobertEStroud #DOES17 pic.twitter.com/yXgP8FMmRk

— DevOps Enterprise Summit (@ITRevDOES) November 14, 2017

Key components of leading change. #DOES17 @jasonacox pic.twitter.com/EC8P1bbA20

— Erica Morrison (@ericarmorrison) November 14, 2017

If your company needs an innovation department, your company is doing innovation wrong. #DOES17 @mathewtisson

— Jason M Vernon (@jmvernon) November 14, 2017

TOP PHOTOS FROM THE DAY

REMINDERS FOR DAY 3

Watch the Live Stream >>> if you can’t join the live event!

Be sure to double-check the app as there are schedule changes for today’s plenary sessions. Breakfast will start promptly at 7:00 a.m. and run until opening remarks at 8:45 a.m.

Check out all the great sessions tomorrow! Verizon, Nike, Compuware, IBM, Tasktop, Nationwide, Barclays, and more!

Videos from Day 2 will soon be available and slides from the speakers will be published throughout the day.

Stay tuned to social for any other updates and changes and get your social on. Share your favorite quotes and pictures with your fellow attendees!

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