Join us at BIG DevOps Adventure on April 20-22!

Our Speakers [#our-speakers] Schedule Sponsors Contacts Registration Registration 20-22 april 2021 is a community event that focuses on DevOps Culture Registration Our Speakers Schedule Sponsors Contacts Registration How it will be 3 Days 6 Speakers 12 Ignites 1000+ Participants Audience 90% DevOps 5% Software Developer 5% OPS What is DevOpsDays? The term "DevOps" was popularized thanks to a series of "DevOpsDays" conferences. The first edition of this Conference was held in Belgium in 2009. Since then, DevOpsDays conferences have spread across the globe. Presentations Anyone can submit a presentation via the Call for Papers. DevopsDays Program Council will choose the best presentations among these submissions, which will appear in the agenda of the conference Open Space The openspace format is a very interesting, simple and succeed one. A moment before the openspace starts, all attendees vote on what topic is the most wanted and the most interesting. After this participants can create discussion groups on topics most important to them. Ignites The ignite talks are a valuable portion of knowledge, lasting for 5 minutes. Slides change automatically every 15 seconds. Every slide focuses on the specific topic from the DevOps field and gives a condensed overview. Our Speakers Seth Vargo Senior Staff Engineer at Google Embarking on your security journey Learn More Joe Beda Principal Engineer at VMware, VMware Tanzu Fireside chat Learn More Mandi Walls DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty Modern Incident Response Learn More Joel Tosi Practitioner, Co-Founder, and Lead Instigator Creating Learning Organizations Learn More Alanna Burke Documentation, Training, and Developer Advocate at amazee.io Documenting an Agile Team - how to keep up Learn More Jennifer Davis Developer Relations Manager at Google ТВА Learn More Seth Vargo Senior Staff Engineer at Google Seth Vargo is an engineer at Google Cloud. Previously he worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, teaching, or speaking at conferences, Seth advises non-profits. Joe Beda Principal Engineer at VMware, VMware Tanzu Joe Beda is a Principal Engineer at VMware. Joe organizes Kubernetes technical direction across VMware and VMware Tanzu. Joe arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a leader in the cloud native movement and a company that he co-founded. Previously, at Google, Joe co-created Google Compute Engine and filed the first ever Kubernetes project commit. He remains a frequent contributor to the open source community. Joe holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Rachel (a medical doctor and also an HMC alum) and his two children. Mandi Walls DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps organizations along their IT Modernization journey. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked at Chef Software and AOL. She is an international speaker on DevOps topics and the author of the whitepaper “Building A DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly. Joel Tosi Practitioner, Co-Founder, and Lead Instigator Joel helps organizations help teams make their work easier, through a combination of learning in the context of working, experimentation, and context building. A hands-on doer and builder, Joel prefers doing the work with people instead of talking about the work. Alanna Burke Documentation, Training, and Developer Advocate at amazee.io After ten years as a back-end developer, Alanna decided a change was in order. Still carrying a torch for Drupal, content management systems, and helping others, she is now working as a documentation writer, trainer, and developer advocate at Amazee.io. Alanna also serves on the program committee for DrupalCon North America, is on the leadership team of Drupal Diversity and Inclusion, and serves the Drupal Community Working Group as an ambassador to Drupal Diversity and Inclusion. The proud owner of many pets, including several guinea pigs, she is also very involved in animal rescue. Jennifer Davis Developer Relations Manager at Google Jennifer Davis is an experienced systems engineer, speaker, and author. Her books include Modern System Administration, Effective DevOps, and Collaborating in DevOps Culture. Jennifer is passionate about building community from organizing conferences to meetups. She is a core organizer of devopsdays and organizes the Silicon Valley event. She is the founder of CoffeeOps. She has helped organize AWS Community Day in Silicon Valley, as well as Serverless Days Seattle. Previously, she led the BayLISA organization. Jennifer is currently a Developer Relations Manager at Google managing the Serverless DPE team. Previously, she was a cloud advocate at Microsoft, principal site reliability engineer at RealSelf, developed cookbooks to simplify building and managing infrastructure at Chef, and built reliable service platforms at Yahoo. Meet our MC Daniel Maher Developer Relations at Datadog Our awesome MC Learn More Daniel Maher Developer Relations at Datadog Dan is a veteran of the original dotcom bubble and has since worked in a variety of environments from start-ups to global corporations, including stints as a founder, university lecturer, and a day labourer. Today, Dan is a member of the Devopsdays global team, and a technical evangelist at Datadog. Ignite talks Volodymyr Tsap Chief Technical Officer Infrastructure Templating with cluster.dev Learn More Vladyslav Voloshyn Senior Infrastructure Engineer Cooperation between multiple infrastructure teams Learn More Anton Koshevyi Staff Site Reliability Engineer The way to China. Cheat Sheet Learn More Nicolai Antiferov Site Reliability Engineer at Bolt IaC “evolution” Learn More Andriy Bilous DevOps Community Lead DevOps Leadership - From Engineer to Manager Learn More Volodymyr Shynkar Senior Lead DevOps Engineer GitOps approach for a CD with Kubernetes Learn More Yaroslav Molochko Director of engineering at Squad Humble reflection on future of DevOps Learn More Jeremy Meiss Director, DevRel & Community at CircleCI DevOps before there was DevOps, 20yr old edition Learn More Sarjeel Yusuf Product Manager at Atlassian 5 Serverless Powerups for your DevOps Infrastructure in 5 minutes Learn More Vsevolod Poliakov DevOps evangelist Marketing in DevOps Learn More Vladyslav Pyshenko Senior system engineer at Levi9 Oclif Protoyping cli app with open source cli framework Learn More Josh Armitage Principal Consultant at Contino Charting the path to Continuous Delivery with a Value Stream Map Learn More Volodymyr Tsap Chief Technical Officer With years of experience in enterprise business, have started own DevOps-as-a-Service company. For the last 15 years, we have designed and launched to production dozens of infrastructures based on OSS and Cloud Native stack. Now with the team have been working on an open-source product for infrastructure templating. Active community member. Vladyslav Voloshyn Senior Infrastructure Engineer For the last 6 years, I have been dealing with infrastructure and development. During this time I helped such companies as Atlassian and LUN. Now I work at Preply. I am trying to support DevOps direction in every way: contributing to open-source projects, writing articles on Medium, active participation in communities. Also I'm the co-author of devops digest at DOU.UA. Anton Koshevyi Staff Site Reliability Engineer 12+ years of work experience as a DevOps/SRE Engineer in a broad range of web, VoIP, Networking, Configurations, Operations, Cloud and Bare-Metal envs Nicolai Antiferov Site Reliability Engineer at Bolt Engineer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, a little bit perfectionist and a big IaC enthusiast Andriy Bilous DevOps Community Lead DevOps with over 10 years of experience in IT projects related to IoT, Big Data, Asset Management, Mining, CRM Systems, Insurance, Marketing with software development process improvement and problem-solving skills. Experienced in cloud solutions design and software development. Helping business to achieve the goals with DevOps culture, modern technologies, process improvements. Certified in VMware, Microsoft Windows, Azure, AWS, Terraform, Cisco Networks and DevOps Volodymyr Shynkar Senior Lead DevOps Engineer DevOps Engineering Lead at Intellias. With eight years of development experience, has successfully migrated, deployed, and advised 15 projects in the areas of healthcare, gambling, e-commerce, and the automotive industry. Certified SAFe Agile Software developer. Yaroslav Molochko Director of engineering at Squad The seasoned engineer, dealing with systems engineering past 25 years. I've been leading several teams, with different backgrounds and different cultures. My experience taught me to always check input information as meticulously as my backups. I believe in software 2.0, fast iterations, failures, and Swardley mapping (sometimes I see the future through it) I do not believe in a 100% SLO, "command and control" leadership style, and a big closed system. Jeremy Meiss Director, DevRel & Community at CircleCI Jeremy is the Head of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, formerly at Solace, Auth0 and XDA. He is active in the DevRel Community, and is a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he is also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others. Sarjeel Yusuf Product Manager at Atlassian Engineer turned product manager, Sarjeel Yusuf is interested in next-gen DevOps solutions at Atlassian where he aims to unlock the potential of every DevOps practicing team. With a passion for Cloud Computing, Serverless, and developer practices Sarjeel prolifically writes about how DevOps and Cloud Computing are transforming the way software teams ideate, develop, and ship software. Vsevolod Poliakov DevOps evangelist Engineer, more than 15 years of experience, technical leads and advised companies such as Ring, Grammarly and others, founder of the Ukrainian DevOps community ukrops.club Vladyslav Pyshenko Senior system engineer at Levi9 Sometimes We need to automate some work routines or make some client for communication with internal API's. And cli tool could be the best choice for it. Josh Armitage Principal Consultant at Contino Known for a booming voice and distinct lack of a sense of humour, Josh works as a consultant after spending time with everything from mainframes to machine learning and kubernetes. Having split his life half in the UK, half in Australia, he's now back in London helping regulated enterprises embrace lean software development, cloud native architectures and team happiness as a true north metric. Schedule 20 April 2021 (GMT +3) 7:00 pm 7:05 pm Opening Daniel Maher Grand opening and welcome speech from or MC — Daniel Maher, Cloud Native Operations Advocate at DataDog 7:05 pm 7:40 pm Embarking on your security journey [en] Seth Vargo Join Seth on this interactive journey of the security evolution of a fictitious company where you’ll learn best practices (and best anti-practices) for building and managing a secure software system. You will leave with concrete tips for improving your security posture, fun stories from the field, and ways to make security scalable and approachable for your entire organization. 7:40 pm 7:50 pm Ignite talk: Oclif Protoyping cli app with open source cli framework [ru] Vladyslav Pyshenko Sometimes We need to automate some work routines or make some client for communication with internal API's. And cli tool could be the best choice for it. 7:50 pm 8:00 pm Break 10 minutes break to stretch your limbs, grab some tea, and also participate in raffles organized by our sponsors! 8:00 pm 9:00 pm Fireside chat [en] Joe Beda Join a fireside chat with Joe Beda - Principal Engineer at VMware - who organizes Kubernetes technical direction across VMware and VMware Tanzu. Joe arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a leader in the cloud native movement and a company that he co-founded. Previously, at Google, Joe co-created Google Compute Engine and filed the first ever Kubernetes project commit. He remains a frequent contributor to the open source community. Joe holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Rachel (a medical doctor and also an HMC alum) and his two children. 9:00 pm 9:10 pm Break 10 minutes break to stretch your limbs, grab some tea, and also participate in raffles organized by our sponsors! 9:10 pm 9:20 pm Ignite talk: Charting the path to Continuous Delivery with a Value Stream Map [en] Josh Armitage Continuous Deployment is seen as something only for unicorns, in 10 minutes we'll talk through a proven technique that shows how you can make real progress to your DevOps goals and enable the team to take ownership of their own future. 9:20 pm 9:30 pm Ignite talk: DevOps Leadership - From Engineer to Manager [en] Andriy Bilous Your were promoted to DevOps Lead/Manager/TechLead. What to do and what not to do. Talk will give Good and Bad examples 9:30 pm 9:40 pm Ignite talk: IaC “evolution” [en] Nikolay Antiferov Nikolay would like to do a short overview of how usually should and could infrastructure code evolve. 9:40 pm 9:45 pm Closing Daniel Maher 21 April 2021 (GMT +3) 7:00 pm 7:05 pm Opening Daniel Maher Opening of the second day of the conference and welcome speech from or MC — Daniel Maher, Cloud Native Operations Advocate at DataDog 7:05 pm 7:40 pm Creating Learning Organizations [en] Joel Tosi How do you create a continuously learning organization? If certifications and wikis were enough, organizations would be crushing it. In this talk, we look at how learning - learning in complex and creative domains. We will explore knowledge sharing vs creation, tacit and explicit knowledge, why context matters, and ultimately - how do you go about starting your organization to becoming a learning organization. 7:40 pm 7:50 pm Ignite talk: GitOps approach for a CD with Kubernetes [en] Volodymyr Shynkar GitOps is the best modern method of code delivery. How did it get this far? What challenges did engineers face, while working with it? During this talk we will discuss how NOT to use this method. We will talk about security in Kubernetes and the role human factor plays in the process of release. There will also be code examples and tools recommendations. 7:50 pm 8:00 pm Break 10 minutes break to stretch your limbs, grab some tea, and also participate in raffles organized by our sponsors! 8:00 pm 8:45 pm Modern Incident Response [en] Mandi Walls Incident response is something you hope to never need, but when you do, you want it to go smoothly and seamlessly. Normally the knowledge of how to handle incidents within your company will be built up over time, getting better with each incident. While tools such as PagerDuty can help you recover quickly, the process you follow is just as important. Regardless of the tools you use, having a clear plan for what to do when an incident happens will help your team mobilize, organize, and coordinate during incidents. 8:45 pm 8:55 pm Break 10 minutes break to stretch your limbs, grab some tea, and also participate in raffles organized by our sponsors! 8:55 pm 9:05 pm Ignite talk: Cooperation between multiple infrastructure teams [en] Vlad Voloshyn As your company grows, it’s inevitable for your infra teams to be divided and responsibility to be shared between them. However, in order to move fast and get things done, you need to create strong cooperation inside. This can be achieved by some techniques I’ll share with you. 9:05 pm 9:15 pm Ignite talk: The way to China. Cheat Sheet [ru] Anton Koshevyi Have you decided to deploy infrastructure in China? Anton will tell you what pitfalls await you, and what to be prepared for. 9:15 pm 9:25 pm Ignite talk: Infrastructure Templating with cluster.dev [en] Volodymyr Tsap Cluster.dev is an open-source tool designed to manage Cloud Native Infrastructures with simple declarative manifests - infrastructure templates. The infrastructure templates could be based on Terraform modules, Kubernetes manifests, Shell scripts, Helm charts, ArgoCD/Flux applications, OPA policies etc... Cluster.dev sticks those components together so that you could deploy, test and distribute a whole set of components with pinned versions. 9:25 pm 10:00 pm Open space The most beloved part of DevOps Days conferences! Propose your topic for a discussion. Vote for the most interesting ideas. Join your peers in a virtual room to discuss hot issues, share your knowledge and get new ideas! 22 April 2021 (GMT +3) 7:00 pm 7:05 pm Opening Daniel Maher Opening of the third day of the conference and welcome speech from or MC — Daniel Maher, Cloud Native Operations Advocate at DataDog 7:05 pm 7:40 pm TBA Jennifer Davis 7:40 pm 7:50 pm Ignite talk: Humble reflection on future of DevOps [en] Yaroslav Molochko The only constant in the world is changing. The pace of changes in the modern world is terrifying. It's like driving 300km/h, should you miss the turn - you may never come back on track. I propose to reflect on the current state of DevOps and propose one version of the possible future, or maybe a few. 7:50 pm 8:00 pm Break 10 minutes break to stretch your limbs, grab some tea, and also participate in raffles organized by our sponsors! 8:00 pm 8:40 pm Documenting an Agile Team - how to keep up" [en] Alanna Burke One of the biggest hurdles that documentation writers face in maintaining documentation is staying on top of everything as it changes. We need to know what’s going on in the organization to be aware of pending changes to the code, so we’re not blindsided by code changes that may break documentation links, and cause docs to be incorrect or outdated. Sometimes it can feel like we’re just trying to catch up with what everyone else has done, which can be exhausting and frustrating. Ideally, engineers would update the documentation as they update code or add functionality, or work with you to update them as the coded feature is being worked on, but that doesn't always happen. Additionally, the documentation team often has a better grasp of what is important to document for the end user, and is the team that bridges the knowledge gap between the engineers and the end users. 8:40 pm 8:50 pm Contests Results Daniel Maher 8:50 pm 9:00 pm Break 10 minutes break to stretch your limbs, grab some tea! 9:00 pm 9:10 pm Ignite talk: Marketing in Devops [ru] Vsevolod Poliakov What marketing practices are useful in your daily work in DevOps and why. Vsevolod has been engaged in product marketing for about a year and realized that many practices are useful to apply even in ordinary engineering work. 9:10 pm 9:20 pm Ignite talk: DevOps before there was DevOps [en] Jeremy Meiss The year is 1996. A bright, resourceful 20 yr old Network Administrator at an ISP is tasked with a mundane, tedious project. Said 20 yr old feels he has a better way, and takes it upon himself to get creative. What follows is a quick journey down memory lane to a time before DevOps was DevOps, through the eyes of a 44yo looking back on his 20yo self. 9:20 9:30 Ignite talk: "5 Serverless Powerups for your DevOps Infrastructure in 5 minutes" [en] Sarjeel Yusuf Adopting DevOps is hard, especially since there are barriers in the form of the required efforts, learning curve, and the potential cost of changing current practices. Therefore. in this lightning talk, we will go over 5 lightweight solutions in how serverless technologies can be leveraged to boost your DevOps infrastructure in a manner that will incur low cost and effort while unleashing maximum potential. 9:30 pm 10:00 Open Space Discussions/Afterparty The most beloved part of DevOps Days conferences! Propose your topic for a discussion. 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