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Videos from DevOps Day 2010 panels!
InfoQ.com has posted the videos they recorded at DevOps Day USA 2010. You can watch six of the seven panels now on the InfoQ.com site. There was a production problem with the seventh panel ("DevOps outside of WebOps") that, if it can be fixed, will be posted as well. InfoQ decided that the lightening talks didn't fit into their format so they have sent my co-organizer, Andrew Shafer the raw video and he's going to look into posting them himself.
You can also download audio only versions (.mp3)
Here are the links to the 6 panels...
EDIT: The recording for seventh panel was rescued from technical oblivion and is now live!...
DevOps outside of Web Operations: Much of the public discussion about DevOps focuses on Web Operations. This panel is about taking the lessons of DevOps to other types of IT.
Adam Fletcher - ITA Software
Gene Kim – Tripwire
Michael Stahnke -
James Turnbull – Puppet Labs
moderator: Patrick Debois
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/DevOps-outside-Web-Operations
DevOps (live) at OSCON
Early reports from OSCON are that DevOps is a topic of much discussion. My fellow dev2ops.org contributor Alex Honor and I are headed to Portland this morning to give DevOps related talks at OSCON. If you are there Wednesday or Thursday, please come by and say hello!
Wednesday (7/21) 1:40pm in room Portland 251 is Alex's presentation...
Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing
Thursday (7/22) 10:40am in room D135 is Damon's presentation...
The IT Philharmonic: How Out of Tune Are Your Operations?
Both talks feature lots of new content (even though the titles and outdated descriptions on the OSCON site are similar to our Velocity talks)
Velocity and DevOps Day US was a success, now what?
Now that DevOps Day US and Velocity are in the past, where can you go for in person DevOps discussions?
Below are the DevOps Meetups that I know about:
In the San Francisco Bay area...
Tonight (!) Tuesday July 6 is the Silicon Valley DevOps Meetup
In the Los Angeles area...
Wednesday July 14 is the SoCal DevOps Meetup
In the Boston area...
Tonight (!) Tuesday July 6 is the Boston DevOps Meetup
Across the pond in the London area...
The London DevOps Group meets regularly and has a great site.
And of course don't forget about the second installment of DevOps Days 2010 Europe October 15 - 16 in Hamburg Germany.
If you are looking for some online discussion, you can check out the following lists/groups:
DevOps Toolchain Google Group
Agile Systems Administration Google Group
DevOps LinkedIn Group
DevOps Google Group
Don't forget #devops on Twitter.
and don't forget to subscribe to the DevOps Cafe podcast!
Bonus: Here's an interesting video interview with Patrick Debois (instigator of the DevOps Days conferences) by Daniel Cukier at the DevOps Day 2010 after-party.
The (Comedic) Truth about DevOps
Many serious words have been written about DevOps, including my own "What is DevOps?" post. But sometimes a bit of comedy helps drive home some fundamental truth.
Behold Adam Jacob (CTO of Opscode):
Note: this was part of Adam's "Choose Your Own Adventure" talk at Velocity. Be sure to check out the other videos from his show talk. 2 drink minimum not required.
Should you attend Velocity and DevOps Day? Yes.
Quick questions...
- Is IT Operations important to you?
- Do you build and/or operate a revenue producing online service?
- Do you want to meet and learn from the best in the business?
- Are you looking for a job? or looking to hire IT rock stars?
If the answer to any of these questions is "yes"... then you need to be in Silicon Valley the week of June 22 - 25, 2010.
First up, we've got O'Reilly's Velocity Conference from June 22 - 24 in Santa Clara, CA.
Velocity is the premier Web Operations and Performance conference (and from what I understand is O'Reilly's fastest growing conference). If you want to hear from the people who are pushing IT Operations to new heights and powering the biggest successes on the Web, Velocity is the place to be.
This isn't hyperbole. I've been to all of the Velocity Conferences and the hallway conversation alone is worth the price of admission. And that's before you add in value of the the excellent presentations. It's one of those conferences that always seems to manage to produce a handful of presentations that are talked about and referenced for the rest of the year (if not longer).
This year, three of the the dev2ops.org contributors (Alex Honor, Lee Thompson, and myself) are speakers. Hopefully we'll live up to the high standards that those who have come before us have set.
Click on the banner below for more information and use the code vel10fsp for a 20% discount.
The day after Velocity, Friday June 25, is the DevOps Day Conference in Mountain View, CA (about 10 minutes from Santa Clara). DevOps Day is a one day free conference dedicated to discussing all topics around improving the interaction between what is traditionally considered development activity and that which is traditionally considered operations activity. As the name suggests... it's a day dedicated to an open discussion about all things related to DevOps!
The event is following a unique single-track all panel format (with a few sets of "ignite style" lightening talks sprinkled in for good measure). The panels are designed to be highly interactive with the full audience. As you can see from the panelist list and the registered attendee list, the panels and the audience will be full of rock stars in our field.
Perhaps I'm biased since I'm one of the organizers, but this is shaping up to be a truly great event.
The conference is free, lunch will be provided, and there's going to be free beer afterwards!
Click on the graphic below for more information and to secure your spot.
DevOps Toolchain project announced at O’Reilly’s Velocity online conference
If you are the type who gets distracted at work while trying to stay plugged into the industry, yesterday was a big big problem. In Austin, you had SXSW going on; in San Francisco, you had OSBC; in San Jose you had Cloud Connect; and on the internet you had the O'Reilly Velocity Online Conference. Wow!
The dev2ops guys were busy. Damon and Alex were presenting at Cloud Connect while I was presenting at Velocity OLC. I'm an Austin resident, but SXSW really isn't the DevOps hang-out, at least yet! (heh).
At Velocity, it was my privilege to announce the next generation of the provisioning toolchain project. Some of the feedback we received from the original toolchain paper was from the front lines of DevOps: "yeah that's pretty interesting, but there is alot more to a datacenter than just provisioning". Good point.
So we scope creeped the hell out of the automated provisioning paper and started the devops-toolchain project dedicated to defining best practices in DevOps and open source tools available to accomplish those practices.
So this time, the devops-toolchain project is an opensource community driven project, which due to its nature will need to be reved frequently due to the constantly shifting nature of "best practices". We've kicked started some of the content at http://code.google.com/p/devops-toolchain/ and formed a Google Group for the discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/devops-toolchain. Come join the conversation!
Here are the slides from my presentation:
The Velocity team did a great job hosting the conference! An example of the great content presented is from Ward Spangenberg from Zynga. He updated us on the latest on security in Cloud deployments. Getting security worked out gets more compute into the cloud:
I'm an OSBC alumni. If you're into vintage conference or need to find a way to get over insomnia, check this out from 2007...
dev2ops.org contributers presenting at Cloud Connect and Velocity Online Conferences
Perhaps proving that you can be two place at the same time, dev2ops.org contributers will be presenting at two different conferences tomorrow (Wednesday, March 17):
Alex Honor and Damon Edwards will be presenting at Cloud Connect in San Jose, CA at 8:30am (PDT):
"Orchestration: The Next Frontier for Cloud Applications"
Lee Thompson will be presenting on the Open Source Toolchain Project at O'Reilly's Velocity Online at 9:00am (PDT). Registration for this online event is FREE!