Track Overview
DevEx: The Next Evolution of DevOps
Removing friction from the developer experience. Trends, tools, and projects that we're using to maximally empower developers.
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DevEx Open Space
Kubernetes: Crossing the Chasm
Kubernetes is quickly becoming a commodity. Setting up a Highly Available cluster? Easy. Running large applications in a fault tolerant manner on top? No problem. As long as you fit the mould. But what if your production environment is a closed internal network? Or it’s behind the Chinese...
Ian Crosby
Software Engineer @ContainerSolutions
10k Deploys a Day - the Skyscanner Journey So Far
Over the last 18 months, Skyscanner have embarked on a journey of containerisation and Continuous Deployment. We now do 25,000+ builds a month of 500+ distinct services in production - a massive increase in the capability to apply changes to our website and get our newest features out to our...
Stuart Davidson
Tribe Lead of Production Platform @Skyscanner
Taking Back “Software Engineering”
Would you fly in a plane designed by a craftsman or would you prefer your aircraft to be designed by engineers? Engineering is the application of iterative, empirical, practical science to real-world problems. Craftsmanship is a wonderful thing, and as a reaction to the terrible abuses of the...
Dave Farley
Signatory of the Reactive Manifesto & Co-Author of "Continuous Delivery"
Develop Your Development Experience
Developers don’t get paid to write code. We deliver working software in production. How does your team turn source code into running software? And how do you make sure it stays working? If it’s like my experiences, the process is too intricate for words. Instead, let’s code it. How quickly...
Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
Improving Life in Smaller, Heterogeneous Projects
Many presentations on Developer Experience focus on a single large ongoing project, or a particular methodology or toolset. The consulting world faces a multitude of fixed length projects of various sizes, with an astoundingly diverse array of constraints and givens. How do we ensure a good...
James Uther
Senior Developer @LShift
Speakers from this track
Ian Crosby
Software Engineer @ContainerSolutions
Ian Crosby is a long time software developer, enthusiast, and advocate. He cut his teeth developing military defence systems and has since aimed to use his powers for good. In his current role as Senior Engineer at Container Solutions in Amsterdam he helps organisations navigate the Cloud Native...
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Stuart Davidson
Tribe Lead of Production Platform @Skyscanner
I'm the Tribe Lead of Production Platform within Skyscanner where we provide a modern and scalable platform for Skyscanner to run across the globe - kinda what it says on the tin actually. Plenty of exciting challenges at serious scale - how do you operate a site for 100m unique users a month...
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Dave Farley
Signatory of the Reactive Manifesto & Co-Author of "Continuous Delivery"
Dave Farley is a thought-leader in the field of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Software Development in general. He is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book 'Continuous Delivery' a regular conference speaker and blogger and a contributor to the Reactive Manifesto. Dave has been having fun with...
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Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) is a Principal Developer Evangelist at Honeycomb.io. After twenty years as a developer, she sees software as a significant force in the world. As software engineers, we change reality--including our own, and that's developer experience! Jess lives in St. Louis,...
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James Uther
Senior Developer @LShift
James started programming as a child when games were needed for the family Apple ][, and ended up with a PhD in Computer Science. He worked on the web when it was young and on smartphones when they were new (and not very smart), and he has done stints of system architecture and UI, but always...
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Track Host
Jamie Dobson
CEO @containersoluti (Container Solutions)
Jamie Dobson is the CEO of Container Solutions, a professional services company that specializes in strategic advice around technology and microservices. His interest in distributed systems go all the way back to his days as a student, when he studied High Performance Computing. These days, as...
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