Checklists are a common way to prepare for the best and worst scenarios. In this talk you’ll learn how checklists for your Ops can prevent disaster.
Whether it’s launching a rocket to the moon or deploying an application with Kubernetes, checklists are important. They help provide a reasonable expectation of things that should work in the specific situation you are in. In the case of technology, checklists can help ensure your application remains resilient in times of trouble.
During the era of the shuttle program, NASA would send nearly 6500 pounds of equipment to support each mission. Ensuring every piece of equipment was accounted for and was operational was critical to preparing for the mission. This of course required an extensive checklist which absolutely had to be perfect.
Attendees of this lightning talk will get a brief history of different types of checklists and how to prepare a checklist for their new project. This talk will focus on the operational aspects of deployment by presenting a number of recommended items that should be considered part of a checklist.
DevOpsDays Houston 2019 - Jay Gordon - Checklists: Good Enough for NASA, good...DevOpsDays Houston
Whether it’s launching a rocket to the moon or deploying an application with Kubernetes, checklists are important. They help provide a reasonable expectation of things that should work in the specific situation you are in. In the case of technology, checklists can help ensure your application remains resilient in times of trouble.
During the era of the shuttle program, NASA would send nearly 6500 pounds of equipment to support each mission. Ensuring every piece of equipment was accounted for and was operational was critical to preparing for the mission. This of course required an extensive checklist which absolutely had to be perfect.
Get a brief history of different types of checklists and how to prepare a checklist for their new project. The focus is on the operational aspects of deployment by presenting a number of recommended items that should be considered part of a checklist.
Resumo dos assuntos técnicos abordados no Esri DevSummit DC 2015 e Federal GIS Conference 2015. Ambos aconteceram no Walter E. Washington Convention Center em fevereiro, sendo o Federal, nos dias 09 e 10 e o DevSummit DC, no dia 11.
Avete avuto un'idea brillante. Si tratta di un servizio digitale. Però non avete nessuna competenza per svilupparlo tecnicamente. Nessun problema, vi direte, basta trovare una buona società di informatica e commissionargli lo sviluppo della soluzione software.
E invece no, non è così facile. Sviluppare un servizio digitale non è qualcosa che si commissiona per poi ricevere il prodotto chiavi in mano pronto per l'uso. E' un processo iterativo in cui l'ideatore della soluzione interagisce costantemente con gli sviluppatori al fine di creare un prototipo da immettere sul mercato per testarne l'apprezzamento da parte degli utenti, e quindi implementare altre feature, modificare quelle esistenti, eliminare quelle inutili.
Durante l'evento il metodo per lo sviluppo software agile, ci verrà presentato da Puria Nafisi Azizi, attivista dei diritti digitali e del free software, che ha fondato la società di sviluppo Axant per superare le brutte abitudini di sviluppo delle "fortune 200 company" sperimentate in prima persona.
Management Strategies for Successful WordPress ProjectsMatthew Dorman
Discover a strategy for ensuring successful outcomes of WordPress projects of any size. In addition to being a powerful Blogging Platform and Content Management System, WordPress is an incredible development framework allowing you to use thousands of existing tools (plugins) to speed the development of your projects.
This session will quickly review common Project Management strategies, as well as go more in depth into how expanding your knowledge of WordPress will require you to change some of those existing practices. I will not be promoting any specific methodology (Waterfall, Agile etc), however there are of course vital components of each that are necessary for completing a project.
The most important step in ensuring a successful project is defining what success actually means to the stakeholders. This session will be successful if everyone leaves with the understanding of how outcomes of past projects could have been changed, or at least one thing they’ll change in future projects.
Intended audience:
This session is geared towards anyone who is ready to start a WordPress project or towards those coming off a not-so-successful one. Project Leads, Project Managers, WordPress business owners, Business Analysts, or anyone involved in managing or constructing WordPress project teams.
DevOpsDays Houston 2019 - Jay Gordon - Checklists: Good Enough for NASA, good...DevOpsDays Houston
Whether it’s launching a rocket to the moon or deploying an application with Kubernetes, checklists are important. They help provide a reasonable expectation of things that should work in the specific situation you are in. In the case of technology, checklists can help ensure your application remains resilient in times of trouble.
During the era of the shuttle program, NASA would send nearly 6500 pounds of equipment to support each mission. Ensuring every piece of equipment was accounted for and was operational was critical to preparing for the mission. This of course required an extensive checklist which absolutely had to be perfect.
Get a brief history of different types of checklists and how to prepare a checklist for their new project. The focus is on the operational aspects of deployment by presenting a number of recommended items that should be considered part of a checklist.
Resumo dos assuntos técnicos abordados no Esri DevSummit DC 2015 e Federal GIS Conference 2015. Ambos aconteceram no Walter E. Washington Convention Center em fevereiro, sendo o Federal, nos dias 09 e 10 e o DevSummit DC, no dia 11.
Avete avuto un'idea brillante. Si tratta di un servizio digitale. Però non avete nessuna competenza per svilupparlo tecnicamente. Nessun problema, vi direte, basta trovare una buona società di informatica e commissionargli lo sviluppo della soluzione software.
E invece no, non è così facile. Sviluppare un servizio digitale non è qualcosa che si commissiona per poi ricevere il prodotto chiavi in mano pronto per l'uso. E' un processo iterativo in cui l'ideatore della soluzione interagisce costantemente con gli sviluppatori al fine di creare un prototipo da immettere sul mercato per testarne l'apprezzamento da parte degli utenti, e quindi implementare altre feature, modificare quelle esistenti, eliminare quelle inutili.
Durante l'evento il metodo per lo sviluppo software agile, ci verrà presentato da Puria Nafisi Azizi, attivista dei diritti digitali e del free software, che ha fondato la società di sviluppo Axant per superare le brutte abitudini di sviluppo delle "fortune 200 company" sperimentate in prima persona.
Management Strategies for Successful WordPress ProjectsMatthew Dorman
Discover a strategy for ensuring successful outcomes of WordPress projects of any size. In addition to being a powerful Blogging Platform and Content Management System, WordPress is an incredible development framework allowing you to use thousands of existing tools (plugins) to speed the development of your projects.
This session will quickly review common Project Management strategies, as well as go more in depth into how expanding your knowledge of WordPress will require you to change some of those existing practices. I will not be promoting any specific methodology (Waterfall, Agile etc), however there are of course vital components of each that are necessary for completing a project.
The most important step in ensuring a successful project is defining what success actually means to the stakeholders. This session will be successful if everyone leaves with the understanding of how outcomes of past projects could have been changed, or at least one thing they’ll change in future projects.
Intended audience:
This session is geared towards anyone who is ready to start a WordPress project or towards those coming off a not-so-successful one. Project Leads, Project Managers, WordPress business owners, Business Analysts, or anyone involved in managing or constructing WordPress project teams.
We all know, given the right mindset, that Agile approaches are a great way to get results and for people to go home feeling that they have contributed.
But no one really asks why. Why does it work?
This presentation, given at the Agile Business Conference in London in 2013 provides a collection of Agile-independant thoughts and ideas to make people think.
Above all, it provides some take aways to help judge if the team has a solid understanding of purpose and if the team is just well, how can on say, "dysfunctional".
With projects springing up at a dizzying pace, it’s hard not to feel like you’re falling behind the curve, or that you’re somehow not doing cloud native development correctly. Breaking out of this “container shame spiral” can be tough. It starts with being better equipped to evaluate projects and trends, and make better decisions about when is the right time to start adopting a new project. Otherwise, you’re all bound to stay stuck in a spiral of reacting to every new announcement. Guiding you through the last few years of container fervor, Laura will help you understand the current landscape and emerging trends, and introduce you to a framework that will help you make sense of all the rapid innovation happening around you.
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Creating marketing content for science and technology doesn’t have to be hard. It just takes a little creative thinking. Using some sound strategies, you can make things less stressful on yourself and your marketing team. And with the 3 ideas in this presentation, you’ll actually get stuff done and meet your deadlines.
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Are you a technical expert who's been asked to document something? This presentation will give you basic principles for how to get started. (This presentation is written by me, but owned by cPanel, Inc. and used by permission.)
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The main problem while adopting Agile Methodologies is related to the Cultural Change. Imagine this happening in teams that work together with other teams, with different management strategies and different software development lifecycles. Different projects will be presented. With all these different scenarios, we will focus to understand challenges, actions taken and their results, success situations and failure situations transformed into lessons learned in this Agile adoption path. It’s a presentation to share a research work being developed for almost two years now, with some teams, and share lessons learned about applying Agile Methodologies inside a Global Company.
Allan Kelly - Do it right, then do the right thingDevConFu
Several generations of managers have been taught to "Do the right thing, then do it right." It has a logic all of its own doesn't it? What's the use of being highly effective is you are highly effective at the wrong thing? But what if the obsession with doing the right thing is itself harmful? What if you don't know the right thing to do until you have do something? What if you need to do something in order to know what is right and what is wrong? Rather than analyse before doing anything, it may well be cheaper and faster with modern tools to do something, and then analyse what happens before deciding what to do next. But only if you can iterate: do something, learn and go around again. In this session Allan Kelly will present an alternative, possibly heretical, view of the world and argue that doing things right is essential if you are to do the right thing.
OSMC 2015: Testing in Production by Devdas BhagatNETWAYS
For most ecommerce companies, software is not the final deliverable product. It is a research tool, to determine what customers will pay for. To be able to get good data from software, monitoring and analytics must be built into the system. Alerting must come from business requirements and be based on application generated data.
In the traditional operations world, we monitor what is easy, and avoid monitoring that which is difficult. This talk is an attempt to show people that monitoring must be driven by metrics from the CxO office, and then potentially involve technical metrics if needed.
This talk explains why functional and business level monitoring is crucial. We also cover the tradeoffs from a DTAP model to continuous deployment. There will be a brief introduction to a couple of useful monitoring tools for functional monitoring. No special technical skills are expected of the audience, but having a general overview of the monitoring world is a good thing. This talk is not limited to ecommerce companies, but is most applicable to that environment.
We all know, given the right mindset, that Agile approaches are a great way to get results and for people to go home feeling that they have contributed.
But no one really asks why. Why does it work?
This presentation, given at the Agile Business Conference in London in 2013 provides a collection of Agile-independant thoughts and ideas to make people think.
Above all, it provides some take aways to help judge if the team has a solid understanding of purpose and if the team is just well, how can on say, "dysfunctional".
With projects springing up at a dizzying pace, it’s hard not to feel like you’re falling behind the curve, or that you’re somehow not doing cloud native development correctly. Breaking out of this “container shame spiral” can be tough. It starts with being better equipped to evaluate projects and trends, and make better decisions about when is the right time to start adopting a new project. Otherwise, you’re all bound to stay stuck in a spiral of reacting to every new announcement. Guiding you through the last few years of container fervor, Laura will help you understand the current landscape and emerging trends, and introduce you to a framework that will help you make sense of all the rapid innovation happening around you.
3 Proven Strategies To Quickly Create High-Quality Marketing Content for Scie...Taoist Media
Creating marketing content for science and technology doesn’t have to be hard. It just takes a little creative thinking. Using some sound strategies, you can make things less stressful on yourself and your marketing team. And with the 3 ideas in this presentation, you’ll actually get stuff done and meet your deadlines.
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Are you a technical expert who's been asked to document something? This presentation will give you basic principles for how to get started. (This presentation is written by me, but owned by cPanel, Inc. and used by permission.)
Agile experiences inside a Global Company - Daniel Wildt\'s perspectiveDaniel Wildt
The main problem while adopting Agile Methodologies is related to the Cultural Change. Imagine this happening in teams that work together with other teams, with different management strategies and different software development lifecycles. Different projects will be presented. With all these different scenarios, we will focus to understand challenges, actions taken and their results, success situations and failure situations transformed into lessons learned in this Agile adoption path. It’s a presentation to share a research work being developed for almost two years now, with some teams, and share lessons learned about applying Agile Methodologies inside a Global Company.
Allan Kelly - Do it right, then do the right thingDevConFu
Several generations of managers have been taught to "Do the right thing, then do it right." It has a logic all of its own doesn't it? What's the use of being highly effective is you are highly effective at the wrong thing? But what if the obsession with doing the right thing is itself harmful? What if you don't know the right thing to do until you have do something? What if you need to do something in order to know what is right and what is wrong? Rather than analyse before doing anything, it may well be cheaper and faster with modern tools to do something, and then analyse what happens before deciding what to do next. But only if you can iterate: do something, learn and go around again. In this session Allan Kelly will present an alternative, possibly heretical, view of the world and argue that doing things right is essential if you are to do the right thing.
OSMC 2015: Testing in Production by Devdas BhagatNETWAYS
For most ecommerce companies, software is not the final deliverable product. It is a research tool, to determine what customers will pay for. To be able to get good data from software, monitoring and analytics must be built into the system. Alerting must come from business requirements and be based on application generated data.
In the traditional operations world, we monitor what is easy, and avoid monitoring that which is difficult. This talk is an attempt to show people that monitoring must be driven by metrics from the CxO office, and then potentially involve technical metrics if needed.
This talk explains why functional and business level monitoring is crucial. We also cover the tradeoffs from a DTAP model to continuous deployment. There will be a brief introduction to a couple of useful monitoring tools for functional monitoring. No special technical skills are expected of the audience, but having a general overview of the monitoring world is a good thing. This talk is not limited to ecommerce companies, but is most applicable to that environment.
In 2018 we've seen a huge uptick in applications using Kubernetes for their deployment method. Many times your persistent data layer is a difficult decision. What will you store data in, how long will you need to access this data and who will manage the lifecycle of this data? These are important questions many developers and ops teams have taken to heart. In this talk we'll review how the data layer is managed for high availability and reliability in modern application deployment. The attendee should leave having a better understanding of the options in front of them and their ability to build applications in any hosting environment.
MongoDB and DigitalOcean Automation with Cloud ManagerJay Gordon
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
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- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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Learn about:
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• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
4. “Under conditions of
complexity, not only are
checklists a help, they are
required for success.” --
Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto:
How to Get Things Right
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5. Why checklists?
Checklists
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• Checklists during
childhood are our
earliest ways of
taking responsibility.
• Help organize ideas
and requirements
before executing a
plan.
8. NASA Mission Prep
The average space
shuttle trip had
almost 6000 pounds
of equipment to
support the missions.
Packing for these
missions had no
margin for error.
Everything must be
accounted for.8
9. NASA Mission Prep
Troy Mann, a lead
technician for the
United Space
Alliance’s Space
Crew Systems
reviewing space suit
checklist.
200 Pounds!
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10. NASA Mission Prep
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Average shuttle trip:
• Every individual item
required cataloging
• Must be ensured
working, dry and
stored.
• Food.
• Scientific Equipment.
• Human error.
15. Van Halen Concert Rider
Van Halen
During this tour VH’s
rider became
infamous – for NO
BROWN M&M’s.
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16. Van Halen Concert Rider
Van Halen’s 1982
tour:
• Largest production for
a rock band at the
time.
• Pyro, Fire, Ramps
• 80 sold out dates
• 1.4 M watts of lights
• 10,000 watts of sound
• 170 tons of equipment
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17. So what’s this got to do with my app?
If you plan, you can execute
If you consider the requirements before
going to production, you can avoid
failure.
Build your own M&Ms into your process.
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18. Before you go to prod, create a checklist.
Examples:
☑ Everything checked into repo?
☑ Monitoring configured?
☑ Ports secured?
☑ Alerting and on-call rotation ready?
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19. Before you go to prod, create a checklist.
Methods to execute:
☑ Use tools you know!
✰ GitHub issues
✰ Kanban board!
☑ Consider an M&M.
☑ Document the procedure!
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20. Thanks!Make a checklist –
check it twice.
E-mail me: jay.gordon@microsoft.com
LinkedIn: /n/jaygordon0042
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