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10:30am PST

OPEN Session: Radical Transparency for Software Teams

Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST

Gregory Lind, Buildly, CEO and Founder

Redefine team communication with radical transparency. Fostering a culture of openness, honesty, and positivity in your team, can create a work environment where everyone feels empowered to do their best work and grow both personally and professionally. This talk will give an overview to bringing radical transparency into your DevOps, software and product development processes.

Speakers

Gregory Lind

CEO and Founder, Buildly

Author of "Radical Therapy for Software Teams", CEO of Buildly, and 20+ year career in Software, Open Source and Startups. Founder and CTO of four successful startups in 3 different countries. Worked with NGOs and Government agencies building open source grant management systems... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PST
OpsWorld

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Exec World, OPEN Session, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OPEN Session: 5 Things You Didn’t Know Were Possible with GitHub Actions

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST

OpsWorld

Jessica Deen, GitHub, Staff Developer Advocate

Unlock the full potential of GitHub Actions in this 25-minute demo with Jessica Deen, staff developer advocate at GitHub. Jessica will guide you through advanced features, such as job summaries, matrix jobs, reusable workflows, and OpenID Connect for passwordless cloud deployments. You'll also learn more about artifact attestations and explore starter workflow templates to help streamline your CI/CD processes. You'll see how these powerful tools can enhance your development workflow, boost productivity, and ensure security.

Speakers

Jessica Deen

Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

Jessica is currently a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. She previously worked for AWS and Microsoft. Before that, she spent over a decade as an IT Consultant / Systems Administrator for various corporate and enterprise environments, catering to end users and IT professionals in... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PST
OpsWorld

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OPEN Session, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OPEN Session: Where Is the Love? Why Automated Regression Testing Isn’t Getting the Attention It Needs

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

OpsWorld

Jens Wessling, Veracode, Chief Technology Officer

As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace and new innovations bring a world of possibilities, one item is often left behind: automated regression testing. The truth is without it, organizations can forget about software quality, security, winning customers' trust or being agile.

Regression testing is an integral, non-negotiable part of the production software development process right from the very moment the first line of production code is written. Its impact goes beyond code correctness, influencing development velocity, reducing long-term maintenance costs and ensuring a smoother integration process during acquisitions. However, companies often scramble to retrofit regression testing into their legacy code, but in reality, less than 10% of these after-the-fact efforts ever pan out. It might be tempting to overlook the absence of solid regression testing in smaller companies, but here's the catch: the long-term costs of maintaining code without automated testing don't just stay put – they grow. It's not just a “nice to have” it’s a strategic investment to safeguard their current operations and for companies to position themselves for future growth, innovation and success.

In this Thought Leadership Session, Jens Wessling, CTO of Veracode, outlines the importance of automated regression testing, highlighting why both developers and the C-Suite should make it a priority from the outset and how to make it a core aspect of your team's ethos.

Speakers

Jens Wessling

Chief Technology Officer, Veracode

Jens Wessling is the Chief Technology Officer at Veracode. He leads the architecture vision for Veracode’s core capabilities around its proprietary data model and AI-powered remediation engine. With more than 25 years’ experience in software engineering and architecture, Jens... Read More →

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
OpsWorld

Dev Exec World

Tracks & Topics DevOps
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences Dev Exec World, OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OPEN Session: Say Goodbye to Toil: Automating Cluster Upgrades

Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

OpsWorld

Ben Ryves, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide, Staff Site Reliability Engineer

How difficult is it to minimize the toil of cluster upgrades while increasing confidence in deploying the changes?

Even when managed, cluster upgrades are an unavoidable part of cluster maintenance, yet they can also be a source of toil, stress and outages; either when upgrading Kubernetes itself or additional cluster components. Manually testing changes in staging clusters, deploying with a high sense of uncertainty - these time consuming tasks can be mitigated with tests. Add nifty automation and cluster management efforts are reduced to a bare minimum.

Is investing in cluster tests and automation worth it? Yes! This talk shows how a team of three engineers keeps multiple clusters continuously up-to-date with minimal time investment, effort and disruptions. By leveraging the e2e-framework and Helm, everything from Istio to cluster autoscaler is tested and seamlessly managed.

Speakers

Ben Ryves

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide

Ben works as an SRE at GetYourGuide, building automation and testing tooling to provision production Kubernetes clusters. His main focus is networking, security, and resource optimisation.

Maggie Slukova

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide

Maggie is a backend engineer turned SRE with a background in Mathematics. Her areas of focus are Kubernetes, Istio, cluster optimisation, autoscaling and automation. She loves building things, be it software, infrastructure, furniture or games.

Wednesday February 12, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
OpsWorld

OpsWorld

Tracks & Topics DevOps, Platform Engineering
Session Type OPEN Session
Conferences OpsWorld
In-Person/Virtual In Person