DevOps Vancouver Meetup: October 2020

Welcome back to the DevOps Vancouver Meetup! We hope you enjoyed the summer break and are ready to kick-off the fall with a fantastic line-up of speakers. For more interactive Q&A sessions with our presenters, we'll be using Zoom at all of our future Meetups. Also, Splunk will be giving away two Apple Airpod Pro’s to two Meetup members in attendance! Here’s the evening’s line-up:

Christine Ozeroff: How a relentless Learning Culture is the cornerstone for DevOps

Christine will be presenting anecdotes about how learning has been the most important cornerstone in the development of human civilization and how the current pandemic situation makes this even more evident.

Christine is an experienced servant leader who has been proactively serving the public sector for the past 20 years, passionately building a learning culture across various public and private organizations. Christine has successfully hosted over a thousand learning events and worked with diverse vendors across the globe. Throughout her journey, Christine has helped corporate and public sector leaders to stay ahead of the game in an ever changing, fast paced technology environment by keeping the learning and innovation curve steep. Currently, Christine is at WorkSafeBC as the Innovation and Technology Learning Manager and is relentlessly working towards establishing a learning culture across various divisions.

Chris Riley: Data-Driven DevOps – powered by Splunk + SignalFx

In the early days of DevOps, gated communication between teams was slowing application deployments down. Now tech-enabled enterprises have figured out how to go fast, but not how to keep up with the challenges that velocity creates, such as supporting and measuring application success.

The good news: data produced by software delivery chains (SDLC) can bridge the gap. Leveraging data creates visibility across the entire SDLC, which gives teams the confidence to monitor and support modern apps at high velocity.

In his presentation, Chris will discuss:

• The challenges with the modern SDLC;
• The power of data in DevOps; and
• How the Splunk + SignalFx portfolio supports Data-Driven DevOps.

Chris will demo:

• How SignalFx creates service maps of microservice architectures;
• Microservice root-cause analysis using tracing and metrics;
• Troubleshooting and drill-downs into K8s environments using the Kubernetes Navigator; and
• Alerting and incident management through VictorOps designed for DevOps teams.

Chris Riley (@hoardinginfo): As a bad-coder-turned-technology-advocate, Chris understands the challenges and needs of modern engineers and how technology fits into the broader business goals of companies in a demanding high-tech world. Chris speaks and engages with end-users regularly in the areas of DevOps, SecOps, and App Dev. He works for Splunk as a Tech Advocate and is a regular contributor to industry blogs such as ContainerJournal.com, DevOps.com and Sweetcode.io. He is also the host of the podcast, Developers Eating the World.

Please RSVP quickly and update your attendance if you can't make it, so others who get waitlisted can attend.