Karthik reflects on the conferences and meetups they attended in 2013 related to cloud computing, DevOps, and Agile methodologies. They summarize key takeaways from each event, including that SXSW had too many hipsters, Velocity emphasized frontend JavaScript development, DevOpsDays discussed infrastructure as code and continuous integration, and AWS Re:Invent was worthwhile despite being a vendor event. They also highlight local Austin meetups and recommend speakers to listen to.
LASCON 2013 Talk: User Auth for Winners, how to get it right the first time!Karthik Gaekwad
In this talk, I will outline the best practices to build out a secure user management and authentication platforms for your products.
At the end of this talk, you’ll have the knowledge to implement (or fix) a stronger user authentication system for your startup or enterprise!
In this presentation, I talk about Docker and Container Management issues and solutions provided for them via StackEngine. I gave this talk at the CloudAustin meetup for the 12 Clouds of Christmas 2014.
Agile 2014- Metrics driven development and devopsKarthik Gaekwad
There are many facets of devops, and we will spend our time in this presentation focusing on collecting and using metrics (business, application, system, etc.) and building a metrics driven culture in organizations.
We will define how we have seen devops progress in our organizations and how we’ve realized that different teams in our organizations can find common ground when teams (who have different roles) can work well together when they use metrics as the common language.
Karthik will talk about how we are using the principles from the Lean Startup to define our development cycles, sprints and using metrics to quantify how successful the products we are trying to come out with in R&D. Initially we started practicing devops on the dev and ops side of the house but realized this was still a black box to the business side of the house, so we pivoted to what our business actually understood, and that was metrics; today, we focus more on metrics (business and system level), and can fail or succeed fast to achieve our business goals faster than before.
Ernest will go into detail on how a large, mature SaaS organization uses metrics in conjunction with distributed agile development and DevOps to guide their development at scale. How much a product is used, how much each feature is used, and how much value each user gets out of it are key drivers for a business strategy - and it’s all information that’s emitted by a system. He'll show how large companies have invested time in collecting and using these metrics to guide their decisions and influence their culture.
Blueprints were introduced to Confluence 5.1 & have a huge potential usage. In this presentation we show how they are much more than just templates. By pulling in other modules into Blueprints, you can access any data and create complex content as easy as 1, 2, 3.
LASCON 2013 Talk: User Auth for Winners, how to get it right the first time!Karthik Gaekwad
In this talk, I will outline the best practices to build out a secure user management and authentication platforms for your products.
At the end of this talk, you’ll have the knowledge to implement (or fix) a stronger user authentication system for your startup or enterprise!
In this presentation, I talk about Docker and Container Management issues and solutions provided for them via StackEngine. I gave this talk at the CloudAustin meetup for the 12 Clouds of Christmas 2014.
Agile 2014- Metrics driven development and devopsKarthik Gaekwad
There are many facets of devops, and we will spend our time in this presentation focusing on collecting and using metrics (business, application, system, etc.) and building a metrics driven culture in organizations.
We will define how we have seen devops progress in our organizations and how we’ve realized that different teams in our organizations can find common ground when teams (who have different roles) can work well together when they use metrics as the common language.
Karthik will talk about how we are using the principles from the Lean Startup to define our development cycles, sprints and using metrics to quantify how successful the products we are trying to come out with in R&D. Initially we started practicing devops on the dev and ops side of the house but realized this was still a black box to the business side of the house, so we pivoted to what our business actually understood, and that was metrics; today, we focus more on metrics (business and system level), and can fail or succeed fast to achieve our business goals faster than before.
Ernest will go into detail on how a large, mature SaaS organization uses metrics in conjunction with distributed agile development and DevOps to guide their development at scale. How much a product is used, how much each feature is used, and how much value each user gets out of it are key drivers for a business strategy - and it’s all information that’s emitted by a system. He'll show how large companies have invested time in collecting and using these metrics to guide their decisions and influence their culture.
Blueprints were introduced to Confluence 5.1 & have a huge potential usage. In this presentation we show how they are much more than just templates. By pulling in other modules into Blueprints, you can access any data and create complex content as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at http://bit.ly/ZWoOFl.
Max Firtman discusses the present mobile ecosystem, why cross-platform is the key to success, HTML5 APIs, challenges with HTML5, when HTML5 is a proper solutions and other. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Max Firtman is a mobile+web developer, trainer, speaker and writer. He is Adobe Community Champion and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He wrote many books, including "Programming the Mobile Web" and "jQuery Mobile: Up and Running" published by O'Reilly Media. He has a blog about mobile web development at www.mobilexweb.com and he maintains the website www.mobilehtml5.org.
Diving Into the New AWS SDK for Ruby (TLS305) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
Ruby developers: attend this session and learn about the next major version of the AWS SDK for Ruby, the aws-core gem. We dive deep into the SDK, covering topics such as waiters, request enumeration and pagination, resource modeling, version locking, and more. Learn how to take advantage of these features as we construct a sample Ruby application using the AWS SDK.
Delivered at Velocity Europe in Barcelona, this talk introduces "ops" people to the idea of user centered design, touching on several techniques long used in the design world, and talks about how those ideas might be applied to software and processes that we use every day.
This was a presentation I gave in October 2013 to the Waterloo Scala Meetup. It's probably the 437th presentation on Scala modularity to date. There's tons of them, but the group was curious about how it was done and wanted the personal touch, so I gave it to them...
Telco: Voice-Command Personal Agent Service with AWS Cloud (MBL202) | AWS re:...Amazon Web Services
"In March 2012, Japan’s leading mobile operator, NTT DOCOMO, introduced Shabette Concier, an advanced voice-activated personal agent service that enables customers to intuitively and directly operate services and smartphone features with voice commands. Millions of DOCOMO's subscribers are now using this service.
This session explains Shabette Concier's distributed speech recognition architecture, and dialogue-understanding system design, with machine learning technologies and large-scale database systems. Learn why DOCOMO chose the AWS cloud and how DOCOMO engineers overcame all the difficulties from CEO-imposed time constraints, unexpectedly rapid service growth, usage spikes driven by marketing campaigns, and internal resistance to the use of cloud services. The session concludes with lessons learned from a telco's large-scale service development of a mobile app with the AWS cloud."
This talk was given at the responsive web design event at Manchester Metropolitan university on December 5th 2012. It looks at responsive design from the standards perspective, starting with history, and how we got to where we are now, and looking at the technologies available for practicing RWD in the modern day and in the near future.
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at http://bit.ly/ZWoOFl.
Max Firtman discusses the present mobile ecosystem, why cross-platform is the key to success, HTML5 APIs, challenges with HTML5, when HTML5 is a proper solutions and other. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Max Firtman is a mobile+web developer, trainer, speaker and writer. He is Adobe Community Champion and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He wrote many books, including "Programming the Mobile Web" and "jQuery Mobile: Up and Running" published by O'Reilly Media. He has a blog about mobile web development at www.mobilexweb.com and he maintains the website www.mobilehtml5.org.
Diving Into the New AWS SDK for Ruby (TLS305) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
Ruby developers: attend this session and learn about the next major version of the AWS SDK for Ruby, the aws-core gem. We dive deep into the SDK, covering topics such as waiters, request enumeration and pagination, resource modeling, version locking, and more. Learn how to take advantage of these features as we construct a sample Ruby application using the AWS SDK.
Delivered at Velocity Europe in Barcelona, this talk introduces "ops" people to the idea of user centered design, touching on several techniques long used in the design world, and talks about how those ideas might be applied to software and processes that we use every day.
This was a presentation I gave in October 2013 to the Waterloo Scala Meetup. It's probably the 437th presentation on Scala modularity to date. There's tons of them, but the group was curious about how it was done and wanted the personal touch, so I gave it to them...
Telco: Voice-Command Personal Agent Service with AWS Cloud (MBL202) | AWS re:...Amazon Web Services
"In March 2012, Japan’s leading mobile operator, NTT DOCOMO, introduced Shabette Concier, an advanced voice-activated personal agent service that enables customers to intuitively and directly operate services and smartphone features with voice commands. Millions of DOCOMO's subscribers are now using this service.
This session explains Shabette Concier's distributed speech recognition architecture, and dialogue-understanding system design, with machine learning technologies and large-scale database systems. Learn why DOCOMO chose the AWS cloud and how DOCOMO engineers overcame all the difficulties from CEO-imposed time constraints, unexpectedly rapid service growth, usage spikes driven by marketing campaigns, and internal resistance to the use of cloud services. The session concludes with lessons learned from a telco's large-scale service development of a mobile app with the AWS cloud."
This talk was given at the responsive web design event at Manchester Metropolitan university on December 5th 2012. It looks at responsive design from the standards perspective, starting with history, and how we got to where we are now, and looking at the technologies available for practicing RWD in the modern day and in the near future.
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https://info.signalsciences.com/securing-cloud-native-ten-tips-better-container-security).
My cloud native security talk I gave at Innotech Austin 2018. I cover container and Kubernetes security topics, security features in Kubernetes, including opensource projects you will want to consider while building and maintaining cloud native applications.
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Writing secure applications in a new language is challenging. Here are some tips to help get you started for writing secure code in golang. Presented at Lascon 2015
Agile 2013 Talk: How DevOps Changes EverythingKarthik Gaekwad
The most important DevOps things I’ve learned over the last 4 years. I presented this at Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN. This talk is the talk and story referenced in Gene Kim's Devops Handbook (https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Handbook-World-Class-Reliability-Organizations/dp/1942788002)
#agile #devops #automation #culture #distributedTeams #measurement #sharing #bestPractices
To conclude, the pillars of devops (culture and sharing information) isn't limited to just us technologists, but transends to other fields such as the CIA
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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!
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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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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