Brian Keyes is a technology solutions professional based in Chicago who works with companies to help them solve business problems using technology. He has a passion for constant learning and doing the right things for the right reasons. Brian focuses on providing essential services to his customers to help deliver business value and maximize their technology investments, while making their technology partner simple instead of complex.

2. Who
Brian Keyes
Developer Technologist,
Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Married - 3 Children
Avid Fly Fisherman and Homebrewer
What
Technology Solutions Professional
Central Region – Midwest - Chicago
Working closely with you and your teams to extend
your expertise in building and managing software in
the Microsoft stack for your business.
Where
In the Azure Cloud or In your Datacenter
A focus on highly available cloud based application
architectures as well as on-premises and hybrid
scenarios.
Let me help you move your organization to the cloud
to maximize flexibility and optimize your datacenter
spend.
Why
A Passion For Learning
A healthy passion for constant improvement and
doing the right things for the right reasons.
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge
of our own ignorance.“
– Ben Franklin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/briankeyes
Brian focuses on solving business
problems using technology. He
believes your technology partner
should make life simpler instead of
adding complexity.
He provides companies with the
services that are essential to
delivering business value — and
maximizes the value of their
technology investments.

3. Our Journey to DevOps
VISUAL STUDIO

4. Why DevOps?

5. Where we came from
Planning
Beta
? RTM
?
Code Test & Stabilize Code Test & Stabilize
2,5 years
Our development process
We did ask for feedback after each milestone – planning, Beta, RTM.
We did find bugs with this process and fix them - no problems there.
But we couldn’t react to anything customers using the product were telling us.
For the most part, we would tell everybody “sorry”… and push things to the next release.

6. It’s Development and
Operations collaboration
It’s a job title
It’s automation
It means faster and
smaller releases

7. Develop + Test
Plan + Track
Monitor + Learn
Release
Development Production

8. The DevOps
conversation
PEOPLE
Collaborate more
Share common goals
Focus on improvement
BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER
PROCESS
Eliminate waste
Increase efficiency
Streamline feedback
DELIVERING VALUE FASTER
TOOLS
Enhance productivity
Enable collaboration
Facilitate experimentation
EXECUTING THE DEVOPS STRATEGY

9. FLOW OF
CUSTOMER
VALUE
AUTONOMY
and
ALIGNMENT
BACKLOG
improved by
LEARNING
EVIDENCE
gathered in
PRODUCTION
MANAGED
TECHNICAL
DEBT
PRODUCTION
FIRST
MINDSET
INFRA as a
FLEXIBLE
RESOURCE

10. FLOW OF
CUSTOMER
VALUE
AUTONOMY
and
ALIGNMENT
BACKLOG
improved by
LEARNING
EVIDENCE
gathered in
PRODUCTION
MANAGED
TECHNICAL
DEBT
PRODUCTION
FIRST
MINDSET
INFRA as a
FLEXIBLE
RESOURCE
Infrastructure as Code
Cloud Dev/Test
Automatic Scaling
Sandboxing/Dev and Test Labs
Containerization
Microservices Architecture
Testing in Production
Usage Monitoring
User Telemetry
Stakeholder feedback
Feature flags
Experiments
Scaled Agile
Self-managing teams
Feature crews
Automated Testing
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Release Management
Usage Monitoring
Telemetry Collection
Testing in Production
Stakeholder Feedback
Peer Code Reviews
Automated Testing
Continuous Measurement
Agile Documentation
Shift-Left into the Inner Loop
Application Performance Management
Infrastructure as Code
Continuous Delivery
Release Management
Configuration Management
Automated Recovery

12. C O N T I N U O U S I N T E G R A T I O N
C O N T I N U O U S D E P L O Y M E N T
R E L E A S E M A N A G E M E N T
A U T O M A T E D T E S T I N G

14. S E L F - M A N A G I N G T E A M S
PLANNING CHATS
F E A T U R E C R E W S
SPRINT RITUALS
SCALED AGILE
TEA M ROOM S

16. U S E R T E L E M E T R Y
U S A G E M O N I T O R I N G
S T A K E H O L D E R F E E D B A C K
A / B T E S T I N G I N P R O D U C T I O N

18. T E S T I N G I N P R O D U C T I O N
STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK
U S A G E M O N I T O R I N G
U S E R T E L E M E T R Y
F E A T U R E F L A G S

20. S H I F T - L E F T
C O D E M E T R I C S
T E S T A U T O M A T I O N
P E E R C O D E R E V I E W S
C O N T I N U O U S I N T E G R A T I O N
C O N T I N U O U S U N I T T E S T I N G

22. A P P L I C A T I O N P E R F O R M A N C E M A N A G E M E N T
C O N F I G U R A T I O N M A N A G E M E N T
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E A S C O D E
A U T O M A T E D R E C O V E R Y
C O N T I N U O U S D E L I V E R Y
R E L E A S E M A N A G E M E N T

24. I N F R A S T R U C T U R E A S C O D E
D E V E L O P E R S A N D B O X I N G
C L O U D D E V / T E S T L A B S
C O N T A I N E R I Z A T I O N
M I C R O S E R V I C E S
A U T O S C A L I N G
F A I L O V E R

25. OLD WORLD
Focus on planning
Compete, not collaborate
Static hierarchies
Individual productivity
Efficiency of process
Assumptions, not data
NEW WORLD
Focus on delivering
Collaborate to win
Fluid and flexible teams
Collective value creation
Effectiveness of outcomes
Experiment, learn and respond

26. Modern software development
Visual Studio

27. Software delivery challenges
%

28. The DevOps Solution for .NET Developers
Visual Studio Enterprise

29. Continuous Learning
Visual Studio Features
Live Experiences
• Live Unit Testing
• Live Dependency
Validation
Flexible Source Control
Modern Code Workflows
Cross-Platform Build
Automated Testing
Release Management
Code Coverage
Intellitest
Fakes and Stubs
Redgate ReadyRoll
Redgate SQLPrompt
Agile Tools
Enterprise Collaboration
Dashboards & Charts
Test & Feedback
Application Insights
HockeyApp
IntelliTrace in Production
Performance Testing
Test & Feedback
Application Insights
HockeyApp
IntelliTrace in Production
Performance Testing
Modern Code Workflows
• Pull Requests
Test & Feedback
Automated Testing
Live Experiences
• Live Unit Testing
• Live Dependency
Validation
IntelliTest
IntelliTrace
Code Maps
Visual Debugging
Code Analysis
Code Coverage
Redgate ReadyRoll
Redgate SQLPrompt
Automated Testing
Test & Feedback
Application Insights
HockeyApp
Release Management
Performance Testing
Cloud Dev/Test Env.
Azure Dev/Test Labs
Azure VMs
Azure App Service
Performance Testing

30. DEMO
A Day in the Life
of a Developer