Merge pull request #3 from devopsdaysmvd/cfp_open

[MVD-2019] CFP is open, Sponsorship packages added, logo contest open

content/events/2019-atlanta/program/aaron-aldrich.md

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+Title = "Continuous Improvement: DevOps and Mental Illness"
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+Speakers = ["aaron-aldrich"]
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+Dealing with any neuro-diversity is difficult and stigmatized, but lessons learned from DevOps and Complex Systems management have helped me improve how I handle situations. These lessons can be applied broadly and shift our thinking to how DevOps extends beyond tech alone.
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+Mental illness is stigmatized and hard to talk about publicly. Doubly so in the tech industry where we assign much of our personal value to our brains. I want to share my struggles with mental health and the lessons I’ve learned from Systems operation and DevOps that have helped me get by and frame my struggle in a manageable way.
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+In 5 minutes I want to: - Help reduce the stigma of Mental Illness by talking about it - Provide some illustration of things that have helped me, so hopefully they can help you - Show how the concepts of DevOps have application reaching beyond High Technology - Spark further conversation about Mental health and DevOps

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+Title = "How to use Design thinking in Technology and Product Development"
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+Speakers = ["arti-mashalkar"]
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+Design Thinking is a creative approach to problem solving that keeps the users need in center of developing innovative solutions to solve real world problems. This talk will walk you through how teams can build an experience that your customers will remember.
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+Design Thinking is a creative approach in problem solving that keeps the users need in center of developing innovative solutions to solve real world problems. Instead of gathering requirements, teams gather inspiration from real customers interviews in order to generate ideas, make the ideas tangible to test and gather feedback to experiment forward. Design thinking is an Agile way to remove risk early by testing your assumptions with the end user.It’s a great tool for our organization to be ambidextrous and meet the demands of today’s business as well as be adaptive to changes in customer preferences. This talk will walk you through how Technology teams can adapt design thinking principles to build an experience that your customers will remember.

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+Title = "Chaos Engineering and Crash Tests"
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+Before a car can be sold, it must be crash tested to assess its safety and resilience. Chaos engineering is a method for testing software in the same way. This talk explores the similarities between crash testing and chaos engineering and why the latter should be part of every engineer’s toolbox.
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+Chaos engineering refers to a practice that is common in many industries but still new to the software world: testing a product under degraded conditions to ensure that the impact of the condition is both known and contained. Using crash tests as a metaphor, this talk explores the definition and goals of chaos engineering and offers suggestions on how you can add some chaos to your own software development process.

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+Title = 'Is it wrong to have a "DevOps team"?'
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+If your company has a “DevOps” team, is that a step in the right direction or proof that you’ve totally missed the point? At FullStory we have a Platform team, which builds things to make life easier for the other engineering teams. Usually that works well; but sometimes, not so much.
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+What’s the proper role of a “DevOps” team? Or is any such team flawed by design?
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+At FullStory, we embrace “you build it, you run it”, but the specifics of how we implement this philosophy have evolved over time. In the early years the company was small enough that all engineers participated equally on a single team. As we grew and divided into sub-teams, we found that introducing a “Platform Engineering” team was valuable for creating and maintaining common tools, libraries and processes shared across all of engineering. Looking back over the company’s young lifetime (6 years and counting), what has gone well with this system and what hasn’t? In particular, can these lessons apply more generally to other companies?

content/events/2019-atlanta/program/jeff-lu.md

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+Title = "Serverless Architecture, serverless computing is the new trend for software development"
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+For any company, there will always be technical debts that you have to deal with as technology evolves. Whether it’s revamping a site, refactoring or optimizing an application, or adding new features, you always want to find new and better ways to make improvements.
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+You might want to consider serverless architecture if you’re interested in reducing the cost of development and operations for your next project. Serverless architecture is based on a cloud computing execution model, it is driven by events, and its resources are dynamically managed and automatically scaled by the cloud providers. A serverless framework could potentially free up your time, because you won’t need to maintain, debug, and monitor your own infrastructure.

content/events/2019-atlanta/program/jj-asghar.md

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+Talk_date = ""
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+Title = "Everything you need to know about Kubernetes in 5 mins"
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+Speakers = ["jj-asghar"]
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+You see this cloud-native thing creep into some conversations. You are starting to see your boss reading this Kubernetes book. You’ve googled around about both, but all the terms and technology is hard to grasp. Luckily this talk I’ll walk through in 20 slides everything you need to know about Kubernetes to be dangerous. From there you can take it and focus on what you need to know and start discovering it for yourself.

content/events/2019-atlanta/program/josh-atwell.md

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+Title = "Are You Being the Right Person for DevOps?"
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+We have a sign in our home “Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person” In this short talk I’ll outline some of the key characteristics we apply through the path of growing and maintaining a healthy relationship, mistakes we can avoid, and behaviors we can nurture.
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+Session designed to help people think constructively about how they can improve their position and contribution to the numerous relationships in their lives. These tips and frameworks can help improve both their professional and personal relationships.

content/events/2019-atlanta/program/ravi-lachman.md

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+Title = "Doughnut Dilemma - a Lesson in Resource Managers"
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+Doughnuts are made out of eggs, sugar, flour, a milk. An application to be useful requires compute, memory, storage, and networking. What does delicious doughnuts have to do with these pillars of infrastructure? We live in a world of finite resources. There are only so many doughnuts out there.
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+We live in a world of finite resources. There are only so many doughnuts and so much infrastructure to run and power our applications. Resource Managers are crucial to make sure our applications have the firepower to run and be placed on the most efficient infrastructure. Let’s look at varying requests for doughnuts and how popular resource manager algorithms work. We will touch on fundamentals on scheduling, searching, assignments, and constraints when fulfilling our quest for doughnuts.
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+Title = "mapping Keynote: An introduction into mapping"
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-Simon Wardley, creator of Wardley mapping, will be joining us for a yet to be determined keynote.
+In this talk we will introduce the concepts of situational awareness, why maps matter and how to map a competitive landscape. We will examine a few basic patterns in mapping and how the field is being currently used.

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+Title = "Aaron Aldrich"
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+Aaron Aldrich is a Community Builder at Elastic and a founding organizer of the DevOps CT meetup & DevOpsDays Hartford. He is passionate for connecting humans and using technology to enhance our natural inclination to connect with each other. His writing can occasionally be found on crayzeigh.com or on twitter @CrayZeigh.

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+With over 18 years of experience in software development, Arti Mashalkar has worn many hats including software development, systems analysis, architecture and working as an agile coach. When she is not working she enjoys being a mother to two wonderful boys, volunteering for her boys soccer teams and cooking. She also has deep interest in systems design, human centered design thinking and core agile principles.

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+I work as a Site Reliability Engineer at Mailchimp based in Atlanta, where I build internal tooling, work with development teams to develop SLIs and SLOs, and lead the chaos engineering initiative including coordinating monthly GameDays. I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science in Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program.

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+Title = "Ian Rose"
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+Ian leads the Platform Engineering team at FullStory. Prior to that he did stints at both Google and Alarm.com; in between those he picked up a PhD in compute science from Harvard University. Ian’s likes include the Go programming language, distributed systems, and camping with his kids and dog.

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+Title = "Jeff Lu"
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+I’m a leader for wunderground.com and emerging tech at The Weather Company. I embrace modern technology and enjoy tinkering with things.

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+Title = "JJ Asghar"
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+JJ works at IBM on the IBM cloud as a Developer Advocate. He’s focusing on the IBM Kubernetes Service trying to make companies and users have a successful on boarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem.
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+He lives and grew up in Austin, Texas. He enjoys a good strong stout, hoppy IPA, and some team building Artemis, madding Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld or pair programming cluster Factorio. He’s a member of the Church of Emacs, though jumps into Vim on remote machines. He usually chooses Ubuntu over CentOS, but secretly wants FreeBSD everywhere. He’s always trying to become a better Ruby developer, but flirts with Go, Rust, and only when he has to, Node. A father and husband, if he’s not trying to automate his job away he’s always to convince his daughters to “be button makers not button pushers.”

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+Josh is a Senior Technology Advocate at Splunk, focused on helping IT organizations evolve to support the growing demands on them. He has worked within the realm of IT for over 20 years beginning with desktop support and moving through automating enterprise architecture and operations. He has spent the last 10 years working publicly to improve the way IT is managed, automated, and delivers value to business. His most recent focuses have been in DevOps, Digital Transformation, and IT Transformation. Josh is the co-author of several popular books, a serial podcaster, has led numerous technology user groups, and is an awarded public speaker. Never known for lacking an opinion he guest blogs on various platforms and tweets at @josh_atwell.

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+Ravi Lachhman is an evangelist at AppDynamics focusing on the Cloud and DevOps spaces. Prior to AppDynamics, Ravi has spent time at Mesosphere, Red Hat, and IBM helping enterprises and the federal sector design the next generation of distributed platforms. When not helping to further the technology communities, Ravi enjoys traveling the world especially with his stomach.

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+    If Open Space is new to you, you may be interested in <a href="/pages/open-space-format">more details about Open Space</a>.
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+Title = "Failure and the Third Way"
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+The Third Way is about creating a culture that fosters two things: continual experimentation, taking risks and learning from failure; and understanding that repetition and practice is the prerequisite to mastery. In operations we often focus on “keeping the lights on”.
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+We all have Technical Debt. Technical Debt has to be paid down. But which projects should we focus on? We have to start by identifying our constraints. By focusing on our constraints we can prioritize not only the work that we release, but also the technical debt projects that should be worked. These projects are a great place to introduce the idea of a safe place to fail and iterating based on whether the desired outcome is met.

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+Title = "A Cloud Journey - How am I going to sell this?"
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+Making the decision to move apps or your entire enterprise to cloud services is not simple. You have to really get a good understanding of all the costs of doing this, not just the server costs vs cloud vm costs. The other thing to think about is how this is going to change your culture. You will lose people, and that is “ok.” We will dig deep into the finance side, look at costs of everything vs letting someone else do that for you. Think networks, people, servers, storage, etc. While this is not as sexy as deployment pipelines, it is more important to the success of your migration. If the finance side does not work, your project is sunk no matter how cool the stuff you built is.

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+Title = "How Gitlab Communicates Incidents"
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+In the IT Industry, many incidents have been misunderstood or blown out of proportion due to poor handling of communications during and right after a crisis arises. The how, when, and how much communication can be the difference between a media frenzy and an outage that people work through and forget about. Ever since a database outage in January of 2017, companies and contributors have received timely and effective communication from Gitlab.

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+Title = "DevSecOps: Key Controls For Modern Security Success"
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+Modern development teams deliver features at a rapid pace using new technologies such as containers, microservices, and serverless functions. Operations and infrastructure teams support these rapid delivery cycles using Infrastructure as Code, Test Driven Infrastructure (TDI), and cloud automation. However, security teams are using traditional security approaches that don’t keep up with the rate of accelerated change. Security must be reinvented in a DevOps world by taking advantage of the opportunities provided by continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
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+This talk will introduce attendees to 5 key phases of DevOps: pre-commit, commit, acceptance, production, and operations. In each phase, we identify the key security controls and discuss several open source tools for implementing the controls. Attendees will walk away with a practical and modern approach for building a successful DevSecOps program.

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+Title = "Effective Test Automation in DevOps - Moving Towards Continuous Testing"
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+The ultimate objective of a DevOps approach is to deliver quality products to your customers as efficiently as possible. DevOps shops that achieved this state point to continuous testing as a key contributor to their success. However, QA and testing have become forgotten orphans in the DevOps journey of many organizations. For groups that have incorporated testing, many have a release cadence that resembles something more like waterfall. The culprit is often the inability to incorporate stable automation into their testing practices.
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+In this talk, Lee will discuss how organizations can address these issues, and move towards continuous testing within their DevOps practices. Specifically, the discussion will touch on key practices and methods for implementing effective test automation in a DevOps pipeline including test suite & test scope, automation approach/methods, and test environment and data management.