CloudAustin talk for 12 clouds of christmas on the coolest tech I've seen in 2013

1. Conferencing 2013
Reflecting on things I’ve heard and seen
this year
@iteration1
Tuesday, December 10, 13
#CloudAustin

2. Hi! I’m Karthik
And I’m exhausted from conference
travel...
But I got lots to tell you!
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Reflections
SXSW, Austin
DevOpsDays, Austin
Velocity, Santa Clara
DevOpsDays, Silicon Valley
Agile 2013 in Nashville
LASCON, Austin
AWS Re:Invent, Vegas
and CloudAustin meetings!

4. SXSW
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5. SXSW
The ratio of
hipsters:others is too big
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6. SXSW
The ratio of
hipsters:others is too big
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7. SXSW
The ratio of
hipsters:others is too big
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8. SXSW Takeaways
SXSW
Macbook Pro’s and stickers
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9. SXSW Takeaways
SXSW
Github
Github, the only source
control you’ll want to use
http://readwrite.com/2013/09/30/understanding-github-a-journey-forbeginners-part-1
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10. SXSW Takeaways
SXSW
Twitter Bootstrap
http://www.slideshare.net/karthequian/sexydashboards
Some
Shake and Bake
for your website
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11. SXSW Takeaways
SXSW
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12. SXSW Takeaways
SXSW
Jokes about “forking”
Donglegate 2013
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled-way-out-of-control/
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13. Velocity 2013
Less server code
(just API’s now)
More frontend code!!!
#emberjs #angularjs
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14. Velocity 2013
Much Javascript!
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15. Velocity Takeaways
Use WebPageTest
http://www.webpagetest.org/about
Think yslow, on steroids
from different locations
Google backed, open project to
test your site.
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16. Velocity Takeaways
CloudShark
http://www.cloudshark.org/
Like an online wireshark.
Be careful with sensitive data!
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17. Velocity Takeaways
SwaggerUI
https://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/
Documentation framework for
REST services
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18. DevOpsDays
Infrastructure as code
“Quicker to spin up a new box
than ssh into an existing box and
figure out what is wrong.”
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19. DevOpsDays
CI
“How do I continuously
integrate my code?”
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20. DevOpsDays
“Don’t heart
ManOps”
-Peco Karayanev
“From Monitoring with
Love”
http://vimeo.com/album/2435220/video/69101341
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21. DevOpsDays
“Quit your job”
Nathan Harvey
“Quit your job”
http://vimeo.com/album/2435220/video/69100112
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22. DevOpsDays
A Game of Werewolf
Getting conference attendees to
get to know each other!
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25. Agile 2013
Leading International conference
on Agile methodologies.
1st time there was a dedicated
DevOps track.
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26. Agile 2013
Deming came up a lot in talks
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27. Agile 2013
DevOps at Salesforce
Picked a DevOps Pillar that they
want to target. Focused on
culture before everything else.
http://www.slideshare.net/dmangot/agile2013effectingadev-opstransformationatsalesforce
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28. LASCON 2013
Not just for sysadmins
and security people
anymore!
Great talks+training on
application security with
actionable takeaways.
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29. AWS Re:Invent
Most Asked Question:
“It’s a vendor conference. Was it
worth it?”
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30. AWS Re:Invent
Most Asked Question:
“It’s a vendor conference. Was it
worth it?”
Answer:
Totally.
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31. AWS Re:Invent
Make the best out of it:
Go with an agenda!
Talk to the Product Manager/customer
after sessions.
Ask the PM for the features you want.
Skip sessions and go to the labs.
Go to a Werner Vogels talk.
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#CloudAustin
Log Like you mean it! (July)
Helped me choose a logging solution.
InstaOps with @PrabhatJha (August)
Used cloud technologies to build a
startup.
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Best Speakers
If you haven’t already, go to listen to
these people speak:
Gene Kim (@realgenekim)
Kate Matsudaira (@katemats)
Linda Rising (@RisingLinda)
Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea)
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Best
Presentation
“There is no talent shortage”
Velocity 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_sWGl7MzhU
-Andrew Clay Shafer
“It’s not about talent/cloud/
devops, it’s about competitive
advantage & org learning”
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36. Happy holidays!
Bring on 2014!
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