It’s that time of year where we’re only a few weeks away from DevOps Enterprise Summit London and I’m incredibly excited for our fourth event there. As a programming committee, our goal is always to create the best programming ever — this creates a challenge, as we all thought the Las Vegas 2018 conference was the best conference yet! The first big change for our London conference this year is that it is now a three-day conference— one day longer than in previous years. I’m particularly … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dana Finster, Sr. Software Engineer, and Bryan Finster, Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, titled "Scaling Continuous Delivery at Walmart." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. Dana Finster I'm Dana Finster. I'm a CD Evangelist and Senior Software Engineer in Information Security. Bryan Finster I'm Bryan Finster. I'm a Staff Software … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Anne Bradley, Chief Privacy Officer and Global Counsel for Nike Direct, and Courtney Kissler, Vice President, Nike Digital Platform Engineering, titled "Build a Bigger Team." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. Courtney Kissler At Nike, we win as a team, so, today we’re going to share about a collaboration between our two teams that … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mary Lee, Director, Security Product and Program Management at Salesforce, titled "Securing Your Software Supply Chain." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. I'm Mary. I'm a director of security, product and program management at Salesforce, and I primarily focus on security tools for developers. This includes static code analysis, open-source … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by John Rzeszotarski, SVP, Director of Continuous Delivery and Feedback at KeyBank, titled "Breaking Bad Leadership: The Anti Heroes of DevOps." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. My name's John Rzeszotarski, and I work in the infrastructure group for KeyBank. A little bit about KeyBank: We're located in the Midwest, the Northwest, and the … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Simmons Lough, IT Specialist, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled "If We Can Do It, You Can Do It!: DevOps Transformation at the US Patent and Trademark Office." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. USPTO at a glance I'm a tech lead on a system at USPTO called FPNG. USPTO stands for the ‘United States Patent and Trademark … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Brent Chapman, Principal at Great Circle Associates, titled "Mastering Outages with Incident Command for DevOps: Learning from the Fire Department." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. A little bit about my background I'm a system's sysadmin, networking, programmer, architect, etc. I’ve been in Silicon Valley for about 30 years, and worked at … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dan Cundiff (Principal Engineer,) Levi Geinert (Director of Engineering,) and Lucas Rettig (Principal Product Owner) at Target, titled "Crowdsourcing Technology Governance." Slides visuals by Nicole Forsythe (@nicolibrarian on Twitter.) You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. Levi Geinert A Little Bit About Me. I'm a director of engineering in … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dr. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the University of California (Berkeley,) titled "Understanding Job Burnout." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. About 20 years ago, some colleagues and I were called by Sweden. They said, "We're having this crisis in some of our workplaces. Please come over and help us … [Read more...]

The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Dr. Steve Spear, Principal, HVE LLC, titled "Discovering Your Way to Greatness: How Finding and Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. I'm going to make a case for three key points. Learning is good. Not surprising coming from a guy at MIT wearing a bow tie and glasses. But what I mean more … [Read more...]