VIRTUAL SUMMIT

Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 10:00 AM ET

Available On-Demand

Managing InfluxDB and Time Series Data at Scale (The Wayfair Experience)
Jim Hagan, Team Lead, Wayfair

In this session, Jim Hagan will present their highly distributed multidata center metrics pipeline, and how they efficiently blend data from multiple data centers. He’ll discuss some of the details such as collection, mirroring and replication, traffic shaping and will give a sneak preview of the new aggregation layer.

The Challenges of Scaling DevSecOps
Shiri Ivtsan, Senior Product Manager, WhiteSource

Organizations enjoy the speed DevOps brings to development and delivery. However, most security and compliance monitoring tools have not been able to keep up, becoming the most significant barrier to continuous delivery. Now some good news: You can easily integrate security into your existing processes to solve this challenge. In this session, Shiri Ivtsan, senior product manager at WhiteSource, will discuss:

• Leveraging the DevSecOps approach to help speed up security
• Scaling security into your agile processes
• Five easy ways to start driving DevSecOps in your organization

DevOps Wars: Winning Strategies From the Battlefield
Julio Villarreal Pelegrino, Chief Architect, Cloud & Infrastructure, Red Hat

Over the years, the IT landscape has evolved considerably impacting the way businesses run and deliver services. Today, the evolution continues, and new practices such as DevOps are a crucial component of the digital transformation process.

In this session, we will discuss real-life use cases from the trenches that showcase what to do and what to avoid when adopting DevOps process. We will provide examples from our customers that demonstrate how using the right methodologies, culture shifts and tools could positively impact your business while fostering collaboration and innovation.

How to Defend an Application with Accuracy
Erik Costlow, Developer Relations, Contrast Security

The most effective way to defend an application is to focus on what it actually does. For example if an application doesn’t use SQL, it won’t be vulnerable to SQL Injection. Tools such as the free Contrast Community Edition enable teams to watch running code and observe what this code actually does, focusing time and effort on the things that matter. In addition to accuracy, this improves performance because the defenders have contextual information that can be used for defense. In essence this moves defense up from Layer 7, watching data over the network, into a more modern Layer 8 of how the application actually uses the data.

Infrastructure as Code – Yes, It Applies to z/OS As Well!
Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for DevOps for Enterprise Systems, IBM

Your organization is successfully transforming to DevOps but part of the environment seems to be slowing everything down. The back end mainframe systems continue to take longer to change, and have limited ability to innovate and experiment. What if you could use the same practices and even many of the same open source tools to apply the same dynamic environment practices to the mainframe?

This session will show how it is possible to use the same open source tools to build a pipeline for z/OS including dynamic provisioning of resources, isolated testing environments and production deployment.

Infrastructure as Code is a method to provision and manage IT infrastructure through the use of code, rather than through standard operating procedures and manual processes. Done correctly, it can help avoid cloud deployment inconsistencies, increase developer productivity and lower costs. Join us to see infrastructure as code practices applied to the mainframe environment and learn how the transformation is automated for speed and consistency.

Shifting Left, Integration & Automation: Achieving DevOps Velocity Without Sacrificing Security
Chris Miller, Principal Security Program Manager, Veracode

Is security at odds with your DevOps methodology? Does ‘skipping’ security in your development cycle introduce unacceptable risk for the business? Fear not. Join Chris Miller, principal security program manager at Veracode, to discuss tactics you can employ to seamlessly integrate application security into your DevOps practice to transform it into an effective and efficient DevSecOps practice.

How to leverage Config as Code and GitOps with Feature Flags
Erez Rusovsky, Director of Product Management, CloudBees

Are feature flags an integrated part of your change management practice? Or are they rogue changes in the production environment that have you crossing your fingers and your operations and security counterparts wincing? In this session you’ll learn how to de-risk your production deployments with the use of feature flags by adding the power of configuration-as-code and GitOps.

• Understand the value of an enterprise feature flag management solution\
• Maintain the same accountability, governance and traceability as the rest of the code in the change management process
• Integrate with the SCM and automatically update your Github repo when your feature flags change
• Use GitOps to roll back feature changes, clone feature configuration between environments and coordinate with existing change management approval processes

Operationalizing DevSecOps: Best Practices for Cloud Native Applications
Keith Mokris, Product Marketing Manager, Palo Alto Networks

Organizations are leveraging the tools and practices to build and deploy cloud native apps faster than ever before. As developers and DevOps teams embrace new technologies such as containers to deliver software quickly, security can be challenged to keep up with the frenetic pace of modern CI/CD workflows.
Modern enterprises, which build and deploy weekly or daily, can easily have 10s of thousands of container images spread across multiple registries and production environments—creating security challenges at tremendous scale. Enter DevSecOps!
This talk will highlight:

• Key steps to enable DevSecOps at the build, when you deploy, and at runtime
• The need to implement proper tooling around image trust and compliance
• Success stories from organizations doing DevSecOps right

Mixing compliance & risk management with DevOps
Jeff Keyes, Director of Product Marketing, Plutora

Agile, DevOps and the rise of product-oriented teams have dramatically changed the landscape of how software is developed. Controlling cultures, risk management and compliance create the largest friction slowing down the adoption of these practices. Tools and practices exist now that enable the cultural and technical shift in DevOps to not only adopt compliance and risk management but improve on their legacy implementations.

Lessons Learned in Nine Years: Building a Cloud-Native App
Stefan Zier, Chief Architect, Sumo Logic

As Chief Architect, Stefan has scaled Sumo Logic’s microservices based architecture across the world serving thousands of customers with software built by hundreds of engineers. In this session, Stefan will share lessons learned from nearly a decade of building and scaling the company’s cloud native service.

Accelerate Your Digital Transformation
John Jeremiah, IT & Software Marketing Leader, Evangelist and TEDx speaker, GitLab

Business velocity in the digital economy determines the winners. The faster your software teams can work, the faster you can compete. But, the hardest parts of delivering software is keeping the teams aligned and focused. Teams waste time waiting for inputs, fixing mistakes, shifting from one tool to another, waiting for infrastructure, and maintaining toolchains; all creating friction and slowing business innovation. It doesn’t have to be slow, learn how to accelerate your software delivery and win in the digital economy.

• Enable effective collaboration to reduce friction
• Reduce the barriers between teams to increase velocity without sacrifice
• Evolve toward containers and Kubernetes enable faster cycle time.
• Adopt a “minimum viable change” mindset to accelerate delivery

How to ‘Shift-left’ Security and Automate Container Security Into Your CI/CD Pipeline
Fei Huang, CEO and Co-Founder, NeuVector

DevOps teams are being asked to integrate security into the pipeline, to ‘shift-left’ security. This is critical because as more container-based applications move down the CI/CD pipeline into production, the risk of damaging attacks and data breaches increases. Join NeuVector in this session to explore the attack surface in a pipeline and to learn how to integrate and automate container security, from Vulnerability Management to Run-Time Protection.

DevOps Quality Metrics That Matter: Forrester Research Findings
Wayne Ariola, CMO, Tricentis

With DevOps, almost every aspect of application delivery has been put under the microscope and re-evaluated. Quality metrics have largely escaped that scrutiny…until now. Tricentis recently commissioned Forrester to research how 75 quality metrics are used and valued among 603 DevOps leaders and laggards. The goal: provide the software testing community an objective perspective on which quality metrics matter most for DevOps success.

In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the findings, answering questions such as:

• In the context of DevOps, do the “popular” quality metrics like number of automated tests, test case coverage, and pass/fail rate really matter?
• Which metrics are best suited for ensuring that continuous updates won’t undermine the very user experiences you’re working so hard to enhance?
• How do your team’s quality metrics rank? Are you taking advantage of the ‘hidden gems’ or getting caught up in vanity metrics?

Defining the DevOps Landscape
Tracy Ragan, CEO, DeployHub

DevOps was born from continuous integration (CI).  From CI we evolved to continuous delivery (CD) which has been a driving force in the DevOps market. CD has created a landscape of tools that automate all pieces of the DevOps process from builds to deploy and everything in between. This session will help define the different players in the CD landscape and where they fit in the overall DevOps market.

Couples Therapy for DevOps and ITIL
Jayne Groll, Co-founder & CEO, DevOps Institute

As Agile and DevOps speed ahead with automated releases, smaller changes and less self-organizing teams, the traditional approach of ITSM may appear to be outdated. This can lead to conflicts between the various camps of followers. This session explores the genesis of the disconnect between DevOps and ITSM and offers suggestions for aligning service management practices to DevOps.

DevOps GOLD: A Model for Enterprise DevOps Adoption
JP Morgenthal

Businesses are having difficulty adopting and scaling DevOps because it’s a multi-layered, human-centric, technology-enabled endeavor that is instead approached through a singular-layer, technology-centric lens. Moreover, the layers are not clearly defined in a way that enables businesses to design an effective strategy given their current skill makeup and organization configuration.

DevOps GOLD provides a systematic framework for thinking through the various drivers of successful DevOps implementations. It recognizes DevOps adoption is comprised of multiple layers containing tasks/outcomes that can happen in serial or parallel. GOLD also recognizes DevOps adoption must be considered through multiple lenses within the organization, each with its own incentives for success.

How to really accelerate a B2C mobile app delivery
Paulo Carvalho, Engagement Manager, Outsystems

Digital transformation has had a huge impact on the financial services industry with new market entrants and demanding customers making it more competitive and tech-driven than ever before. To keep up, you need to be at the top of your game. Which is why thinkmoney, a UK-based banking service provider, decided to embark on a major digital-first transformation program allowing them to compete at a higher level and become a market leader in the digital banking sector. Wondering how they were able to accomplish this? Create an exceptional digital experience journey across all mobile devices.

Join this session to see how thinkmoney created an exceptional digital experience journey by providing to their customers a B2C home banking mobile app in 14 weeks. You’ll see how low-code has allowed thinkmoney to:

• Innovate faster and bring new features to market with speed
• Create an exceptional digital experience journey across all mobile devices
• Increase customer usage

Keep Ops and Dev on The Same Page with AIOpsKeep Ops and Dev on The Same Page with AIOps
Peter Luff, Sr. Director, Partner Marketing, ScienceLogic
John Willsey, Principal Solutions Architect, ScienceLogic

DevOps teams can sometimes get separated as development effort runs ahead of the ability of operations to keep pace. The new AIOps movement offers great promise for keeping both on the same page by giving developers and operations teams the tools to quickly identify where applications can be tripped by infrastructure issues. We will identify and demonstrate a set of use cases to illustrate how both can work together to improve application availability and reduce outage risks.

DevOps Experience: DevOps As A Transformation Strategy
Mitch Ashley, Director, Research Analysis on DevOps, Cybersecurity, Networking, IT, IoT, Cloud

As digital transformation drives the creation of new business strategies and models, so goes DevOps’ impact on how organizations create, deploy, and manage software. The value and benefits of DevOps can reach far beyond development teams and IT organizations. That requires alignment, measurement, and results, which bring actionable benefits to the business. In this talk, Mitch discusses strategies IT and development teams can use to realize tangible business benefits, meaningful to c-level leaders.

Baruch Sadogursky
Head of Developer Advocacy, JFrog
Stephen Chin
Senior Director of Developer Relations, JFrog

So, you want to update the software for your user, be it the nodes in your K8s cluster, a browser on user’s desktop, an app in user’s smartphone or even a user’s car. What can possibly go wrong?

In this talk, we’ll analyze real-world software update fails and how multiple DevOps patterns, that fit a variety of scenarios, could have saved the developers. Manually making sure that everything works before sending an update and expecting the user to do acceptance tests before they update is most definitely not on the list of such patterns.

Join us for some awesome and scary continuous update horror stories and some obvious (and some not so obvious) proven ideas for improvement and best practices you can start following tomorrow.