Conferencing 2013Reflecting on things I’ve heard and seen

this year

@iteration1 #CloudAustinTuesday, December 10, 13

Hi! I’m KarthikAnd I’m exhausted from conference

travel...

But I got lots to tell you!Tuesday, December 10, 13

ReflectionsSXSW, Austin

DevOpsDays, AustinVelocity, Santa Clara

DevOpsDays, Silicon ValleyAgile 2013 in Nashville

LASCON, AustinAWS Re:Invent, Vegas

and CloudAustin meetings!

Superfast!

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SXSWSXSW

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SXSW

The ratio of hipsters:others is too big

SXSW

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SXSW

The ratio of hipsters:others is too big

SXSW

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SXSW

The ratio of hipsters:others is too big

SXSW

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SXSWSXSW TakeawaysMacbook Pro’s and stickers

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SXSWSXSW Takeaways

Github, the only source control you’ll want to use

http://readwrite.com/2013/09/30/understanding-github-a-journey-for-beginners-part-1

Github

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SXSWSXSW Takeaways

SomeShake and Bake

for your website

Twitter Bootstraphttp://www.slideshare.net/karthequian/sexydashboards

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SXSWSXSW Takeaways

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SXSWSXSW Takeaways

Jokes about “forking”Donglegate 2013

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled-way-out-of-control/

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Velocity 2013

Less server code (just API’s now)

More frontend code!!!#emberjs #angularjs

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Velocity 2013

Much Javascript!

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Velocity TakeawaysUse WebPageTest

http://www.webpagetest.org/about

Google backed, open project to test your site.

Think yslow, on steroids from different locations

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Velocity Takeaways

CloudSharkhttp://www.cloudshark.org/

Like an online wireshark.

Be careful with sensitive data!

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Velocity Takeaways

SwaggerUIhttps://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/

Documentation framework for REST services

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DevOpsDaysInfrastructure as code

“Quicker to spin up a new box than ssh into an existing box and

figure out what is wrong.”

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DevOpsDays

CI

“How do I continuously integrate my code?”

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DevOpsDays

“Don’t heart ManOps”

-Peco Karayanev

“From Monitoring with Love”

http://vimeo.com/album/2435220/video/69101341

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DevOpsDays“Quit your job”

Nathan Harvey

“Quit your job”http://vimeo.com/album/2435220/video/69100112

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DevOpsDaysA Game of Werewolf

Getting conference attendees to get to know each other!

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DevOpsDays Fiesta

Austin 2014

May 5th and 6th

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Agile 2013

Leading International conference on Agile methodologies.

1st time there was a dedicated DevOps track.

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Agile 2013

Deming came up a lot in talks

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Agile 2013DevOps 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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LASCON 2013Not just for sysadmins

and security people anymore!

Great talks+training on application security with

actionable takeaways.

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AWS Re:InventMost Asked Question:

“It’s a vendor conference. Was it worth it?”

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AWS Re:Invent

Most Asked Question:“It’s a vendor conference. Was it

worth it?”

Answer:Totally.

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AWS Re:Invent

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.

Make the best out of it:

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Personal

Picks

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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.

Personal

Picks

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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)

Personal

Picks

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Best Presentation Personal

Picks

“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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Happy holidays!

Bring on 2014!Tuesday, December 10, 13