A Presentation describing the journey to DevOps for an international hosting company in the Netherlands, Bitbrains.
http://www.bitbrains.com
Agile principles as implemented in the day to day operations and the delivery to new customers where the balancing act is to ensure all stakeholders are served. These range from Customers, Platform Engineers, Sales people as well as security requirements.
All work is made visible and available to the Customer Teams
Gene Kim, an award winning CTO, researcher and DevOps author will share his top learnings on how effective leaders are driving DevOps change, as well as the skills he believes every technology leader needs to help their organizations survive and win in the marketplace.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
DOES14 - Aimee Bechtle and Bill Donaldson - The MITRE CorpGene Kim
Bill and Aimee's Excellent DevOps Journey
Bill Donaldson, Senior Principal Engineer, and Aimee Bechtle, Principal Software Engineer, The MITRE Corp
In their presentation Bill Donaldson and Aimee Bechtle will share a summary of their tumultuous journey that has resulted in 75% of their corporate applications utilizing Continuous Integration with automated deployments, a 70% reduction in labor, and 288% reduction of cycle time. They will support these numbers with charts depicting the deployment volumes over the course of a 1.5 year adoption. They will share how by selecting the right applications, approach, and people, and using creative ways to advertise success, the new capabilities were embraced and adopted in their organization. The presentation will conclude with how Aimee has transformed her team to support Continuous Integration with auto deploy. Additionally, she will share why the 25% remain in the manual system and how she’s pursuing Continuous Delivery.
In 2011 Bill Donaldson and Aimee Bechtle were leading development and deployment operations teams in The MITRE Corporation’s corporate IT department. MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide the US Government world class Systems Engineering. MITRE’s IT was running well with a mature and stable release process. Bill’s team had successfully adopted agile development practices and was adept at producing high quality software code quickly. However, the successful adoption of agile introduced a problem between the developers and the deployment operations team lead by Aimee. Developers had to “hurry up and wait” on operation’s 24-hour SLA to build and deploy their apps. The SLA frequently expired due to multiple handoffs and human errors. Tired of the bottlenecks and lengthy cycle times one day Bill said to Aimee “24 hours is 23.5 hours too long”. This simple requirement sparked the vision for a transformation of MITRE’s software delivery process.
The deployment operations team was employing a manual, mature and repeatable process that had been in place for over 10 years. In fact, in 2012 the Release & Deployment Management process scored the highest among all the processes in an ITIL process evaluation. So why would Aimee be motivated to change? Because MITRE’s unique mission and culture values innovation, active cost management, and establishing MITRE as a showcase to their Government customers.
Bill from Dev, and Aimee from Ops, partnered to successfully deliver an enterprise continuous integration and automated deployment capability. Aimee took Bill’s requirements and declared them as acceptance criteria. Together they formed an influential, cross-functional team that was critical to building momentum and adoption within the organization. And together they experienced the pitfalls and challenges of implementing change, working against the resistors and laggards. At times project goals were in question but through determination
Keynote presentation delivered at a March 13th event titled "Agility Across the Enterprise." The event was sponsored by BMC Software, Rally Software, and the Eliassen Group.
The presentation tells the story of a journey towards Agility from my own perspective working in BMC Software's IT Group. We were able to scale our productivity exponentially using the Agile methodology and DevOps practices & toolsets.
Scania: A DevOps Journey in an Automotive Enterprise Perforce
DevOps is a software development methodology that emphasizes communication, collaboration, integration and automation. The DevOps movement at Scania is yet in its early stages, but from the very beginning, the Development and Operations teams have been working in close collaboration. I’ll present key takeaways on how best to proceed with implementing a DevOps culture within a large globally dispersed IT department.
A Presentation describing the journey to DevOps for an international hosting company in the Netherlands, Bitbrains.
http://www.bitbrains.com
Agile principles as implemented in the day to day operations and the delivery to new customers where the balancing act is to ensure all stakeholders are served. These range from Customers, Platform Engineers, Sales people as well as security requirements.
All work is made visible and available to the Customer Teams
Gene Kim, an award winning CTO, researcher and DevOps author will share his top learnings on how effective leaders are driving DevOps change, as well as the skills he believes every technology leader needs to help their organizations survive and win in the marketplace.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
DOES14 - Aimee Bechtle and Bill Donaldson - The MITRE CorpGene Kim
Bill and Aimee's Excellent DevOps Journey
Bill Donaldson, Senior Principal Engineer, and Aimee Bechtle, Principal Software Engineer, The MITRE Corp
In their presentation Bill Donaldson and Aimee Bechtle will share a summary of their tumultuous journey that has resulted in 75% of their corporate applications utilizing Continuous Integration with automated deployments, a 70% reduction in labor, and 288% reduction of cycle time. They will support these numbers with charts depicting the deployment volumes over the course of a 1.5 year adoption. They will share how by selecting the right applications, approach, and people, and using creative ways to advertise success, the new capabilities were embraced and adopted in their organization. The presentation will conclude with how Aimee has transformed her team to support Continuous Integration with auto deploy. Additionally, she will share why the 25% remain in the manual system and how she’s pursuing Continuous Delivery.
In 2011 Bill Donaldson and Aimee Bechtle were leading development and deployment operations teams in The MITRE Corporation’s corporate IT department. MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide the US Government world class Systems Engineering. MITRE’s IT was running well with a mature and stable release process. Bill’s team had successfully adopted agile development practices and was adept at producing high quality software code quickly. However, the successful adoption of agile introduced a problem between the developers and the deployment operations team lead by Aimee. Developers had to “hurry up and wait” on operation’s 24-hour SLA to build and deploy their apps. The SLA frequently expired due to multiple handoffs and human errors. Tired of the bottlenecks and lengthy cycle times one day Bill said to Aimee “24 hours is 23.5 hours too long”. This simple requirement sparked the vision for a transformation of MITRE’s software delivery process.
The deployment operations team was employing a manual, mature and repeatable process that had been in place for over 10 years. In fact, in 2012 the Release & Deployment Management process scored the highest among all the processes in an ITIL process evaluation. So why would Aimee be motivated to change? Because MITRE’s unique mission and culture values innovation, active cost management, and establishing MITRE as a showcase to their Government customers.
Bill from Dev, and Aimee from Ops, partnered to successfully deliver an enterprise continuous integration and automated deployment capability. Aimee took Bill’s requirements and declared them as acceptance criteria. Together they formed an influential, cross-functional team that was critical to building momentum and adoption within the organization. And together they experienced the pitfalls and challenges of implementing change, working against the resistors and laggards. At times project goals were in question but through determination
Keynote presentation delivered at a March 13th event titled "Agility Across the Enterprise." The event was sponsored by BMC Software, Rally Software, and the Eliassen Group.
The presentation tells the story of a journey towards Agility from my own perspective working in BMC Software's IT Group. We were able to scale our productivity exponentially using the Agile methodology and DevOps practices & toolsets.
Scania: A DevOps Journey in an Automotive Enterprise Perforce
DevOps is a software development methodology that emphasizes communication, collaboration, integration and automation. The DevOps movement at Scania is yet in its early stages, but from the very beginning, the Development and Operations teams have been working in close collaboration. I’ll present key takeaways on how best to proceed with implementing a DevOps culture within a large globally dispersed IT department.
Brian Garofola's presentation at "DevOps: The Key to Delivery Applications and Services Faster and Better" InformationWeek event in Chicago on December 3, 2014.
CDK Global is the largest global provider of integrated information technology and digital marketing solutions to the automotive retail industry. Brian Garofola, Engineering Director at CDK Global, talks about the journey towards increasing the flow of value to customers by constantly improving the people, processes, and tools in the delivery pipeline.
Social Media in the Airline Industry
by Gilbert Ross
Presented at Merlien Institute's Qualitative Consumer Research & Insights, 7 & 8 April 2011, Malta
http://www.merlien.org
Updated Presentation at Frequent Traveler University about the American Airlines AAdvantage Program. All the info you need to know about the merger of Dividend Miles into AAdvantage, how to earn and redeem miles and where those miles can take you around the world. Presented by Edward Pizzarello, http://pizzainmotion.com
The Journey to Devops: From Waterfall to Continuous IntegrationSauce Labs
Join the conversation as DevOps industry analyst Chris Riley discuss the challenges and potential approaches for your team to make the journey to DevOps.
Habitat-managed Chef with Policyfiles: Learn how to leverage the power of Habitat, chef-client and Policyfiles to produce an immutable application containing all of your chef cookbooks that can be locally tested and provides a consistent and guaranteed picture of desired configuration state across all target environments.
This talk is an in-depth look at all we, at Chef, have learned and what we love and what could be better about Configuration Management, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. We'll explore the pain points that still exist, especially as teams try to bring containers and microservices into production. We’ll then explore how to ensure the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.
Presented by Simon Fisher at DevOps World London November 2016
Brian Garofola's presentation at "DevOps: The Key to Delivery Applications and Services Faster and Better" InformationWeek event in Chicago on December 3, 2014.
CDK Global is the largest global provider of integrated information technology and digital marketing solutions to the automotive retail industry. Brian Garofola, Engineering Director at CDK Global, talks about the journey towards increasing the flow of value to customers by constantly improving the people, processes, and tools in the delivery pipeline.
Social Media in the Airline Industry
by Gilbert Ross
Presented at Merlien Institute's Qualitative Consumer Research & Insights, 7 & 8 April 2011, Malta
http://www.merlien.org
Updated Presentation at Frequent Traveler University about the American Airlines AAdvantage Program. All the info you need to know about the merger of Dividend Miles into AAdvantage, how to earn and redeem miles and where those miles can take you around the world. Presented by Edward Pizzarello, http://pizzainmotion.com
The Journey to Devops: From Waterfall to Continuous IntegrationSauce Labs
Join the conversation as DevOps industry analyst Chris Riley discuss the challenges and potential approaches for your team to make the journey to DevOps.
Habitat-managed Chef with Policyfiles: Learn how to leverage the power of Habitat, chef-client and Policyfiles to produce an immutable application containing all of your chef cookbooks that can be locally tested and provides a consistent and guaranteed picture of desired configuration state across all target environments.
This talk is an in-depth look at all we, at Chef, have learned and what we love and what could be better about Configuration Management, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. We'll explore the pain points that still exist, especially as teams try to bring containers and microservices into production. We’ll then explore how to ensure the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.
Presented by Simon Fisher at DevOps World London November 2016
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.