O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2019 - San Jose, California

Table of contents

1. Keynotes
   1. Scaling teams with technology (or is it the other way around?) - Chen Goldberg (Google)
   2. Which edge do you need: Managing multiple edges to deliver the next industrial revolution (sponsored by Verizon Digital Media Services) - Dave Andrews (Verizon Digital Media Services)
   3. From puzzles to products - Jessica Kerr (Atomist)
   4. Community projects inform enterprise products (sponsored by Microsoft Azure) - Lachlan Evenson (Microsoft), Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft)
   5. The SRE I aspire to be - Yaniv Aknin (Google Cloud)
   6. Channel into the universe of eventually perfect distributed systems - Lena Hall (Microsoft)
   7. Cultivating production excellence - Liz Fong-Jones (Honeycomb)
   8. The cloud native elephant in the room (sponsored by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) - Bob Quillin (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
   9. How do we heal? - Alex Qin (Code Cooperative)
   10. Infrastructure first: Because solving complex problems needs more than technology - Everett Harper (Truss)
   11. Kubernetes for the Impatient - Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft)
2. Sponsored
   1. Scale data access with app layer caching (sponsored by Salesforce) - Anil Jacob (Salesforce)
   2. Kick-starting a culture of observability and data-driven DevOps (sponsored by SignalFx) - Rajesh Raman (SignalFx)
   3. The telemetry data revolution at Microsoft (sponsored by Microsoft) - Yoni Leibowitz (Microsoft), Sasha Rosenbaum (Microsoft)
   4. 25 billion transactions and counting: How Dell manages application performance at scale (sponsored by Riverbed) - Jon Hodgson (Riverbed), Jeremy Tupa (Dell), Marcelo Soares (Dell)
   5. Continuous load testing: A journey to performance at scale (sponsored by Tricentis) - Kevin Dunne (Tricentis)
   6. Build a backend with TypeScript using Nest.js (sponsored by Square) - Richard Moot (Square)
   7. Security in the FaaS lane (sponsored by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) - Karthik Gaekwad (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
   8. Katalog-sync: Reliable integration of Consul and Kubernetes (sponsored by Wish) - Thomas Jackson (Wish)
   9. Identity is the new security perimeter (sponsored by Aporeto) - Dimitri Stiliadis (Aporeto)
   10. Overcoming tomorrow's operational challenges with AIOps (sponsored by Moogsoft) - Richard Whitehead (Moogsoft)
3. Overcoming Obstacles: Lessons in Resilience
   1. How did things go right: Learning more from incidents - Ryan Kitchens (Netflix)
   2. Two hearts, one mind: Delivering the same platform to SaaS and on-premises - Renee Orser (NS1)
   3. Chaos engineering: When the network breaks - Kolton Andrus (Gremlin)
   4. How I failed to build a runbook automation system and what I learned - Tim Bonci (Vistaprint)
4. Monitoring, Observability, and Performance
   1. Clarity and confidence: Observability on the New York Times games team - Darren McCleary (The New York Times)
   2. Observability for developers: How to get from here to there - Christine Yen (Honeycomb)
   3. Extracting signal: Fast traffic analysis and smart aggregation in global edge networks - Shannon Weyrick (NS1), Clare Gollnick (NS1)
   4. eBPF-powered distributed Kubernetes performance analysis - Lorenzo Fontana (Sysdig)
5. Distributed Data
   1. Monitor disk space and other ways to keep Apache Kafka happy - Gwen Shapira (Confluent)
   2. Data-corrupting architectures we know and love - Sean Allen (Wallaroo Labs)
   3. Schema evolution patterns - Alex Rasmussen (Bits on Disk)
   4. Data modeling in the 24th and a half century with Apache Cassandra - Amanda Moran (DataStax)
   5. Improving reliability of your distributed data store - Mehant Baid (Dropbox)
6. Leadership
   1. Having the bubble: How your experts build, maintain, and spread deep system knowledge - Beth Long (New Relic)
   2. Why should I care about DevRel anyway? - Emily Freeman (Microsoft), Nicole Forsgren (DORA)
   3. Navigating the midcareer plateau - Uma Chingunde (Stripe)
   4. Your team as a distributed system - Andrew Harvey (Microsoft)
   5. ZOMG I’m leading a project? - Jonathan Maltz (Nuna)
7. Emerging Tech
   1. Immersive development - John Voorhees (Primitive)
   2. Ghost in the machine: The unintended consequences of bias in machine learning - Nivia Henry (Spotify)
   3. Deepfakes: If anything can be real, then nothing is real - April Wright (Architect Security, Inc.)
   4. Build HQ Trivia (better than HQ) - Steve Heffernan (Mux)
8. Kubernetes
   1. Sharing is caring: Your Kubernetes cluster, namespaces, and you - Amy Chen (VMware)
   2. Kubernetes is still hard for app developers; let’s fix that - Aaron Schlesinger (Microsoft)
   3. Lessons from hacking Kubernetes with kube-hunter - Liz Rice (Aqua Security)
   4. Kubernetes APIs under the hood - Phillip Wittrock (Google)
9. Building Resilient Systems
   1. Everything is a little bit broken; or, The illusion of control - Heidi Waterhouse (LaunchDarkly)
   2. Building resilience with Kubernetes - Kris Nova (Independent)
   3. Chaos breeding confidence: Broader implications of chaos engineering - Patrick Higgins (Gremlin)
   4. This should be faster; what's going on? - Andre Henry (Venmo)
   5. How Stripe invests in technical infrastructure - Will Larson (Stripe)
10. Production Engineering, SRE, and DevOps
    1. Test in production: Yes, you can (and you should) - Charity Majors (Honeycomb)
    2. The Ops in the Serverless - Jennifer Davis (Microsoft)
    3. Scaling SRE organizations: The journey from 1 to many teams - Gustavo Franco (Google)
    4. Product management and DevOps, together at last and kicking butt - James Heimbuck (SendGrid)
    5. Lowering costs of coordination during service outages: A multiple case analysis - Laura Maguire (The Ohio State University)
    6. Learning from failure: Why a total site outage can be a good thing - Alex Elman (Indeed)
11. Building Secure Systems
    1. Crafty requests: Deep dive into a Kubernetes CVE - Ian Coldwater (Independent)
    2. Security precognition: A look at chaos engineering in security incident response - Aaron Rinehart (Verica)
    3. Securing services using SSO - Shraya Ramani (Buzzfeed)
12. Building Cloud Native Systems
    1. How Lyft migrated to a service mesh with Envoy - Daniel Hochman (Lyft), Jose Nino (Lyft)
    2. Teaching old dogs new tricks: Infrastructure as a product - Heather Martin (Discover)
    3. How embracing unreliability can make infrastructure reliable and cost-effective - Osman Sarood (Mist Systems)
    4. Layers - Kyle Anderson (Yelp)
    5. Cloud native storage behind the biggest 1-day shopping event in the world - Alex Chen (Alibaba Cloud)
13. Serverless
    1. Isolate computing - Zack Bloom (Cloudflare)
    2. Building serverless solutions that are resilient, scalable, and cost effective - Ruth Yakubu (Microsoft)
    3. Processing metrics with Golang and AWS Lambda - Ryan Neal (Netlify)
    4. Serverless architecture for data science - Rustem Feyzkhanov (Instrumental)
14. Containers, Kubernetes, and Microservices
    1. How to adopt cloud native machine learning with Kubernetes and Kubeflow - David Aronchick (Microsoft)
    2. Containers can actually improve your security story - Maya Kaczorowski (Google)
    3. Untrusted? No problem: A story on the latest Kubernetes container sandbox mechanisms - Ricardo Aravena (Rakuten)
15. Tutorials
    1. Infrastructure and compliance testing with InSpec (sponsored by Google Cloud) - Ben Bleything (Google) - Part 1
    2. Infrastructure and compliance testing with InSpec (sponsored by Google Cloud) - Ben Bleything (Google) - Part 2
    3. Infrastructure and compliance testing with InSpec (sponsored by Google Cloud) - Ben Bleything (Google) - Part 3
    4. SRE classroom: How to design a reliable application in three hours - Jenny Liao (Google) - Part 1
    5. SRE classroom: How to design a reliable application in three hours - Jenny Liao (Google) - Part 2
    6. Pack your bags: Managing distributed applications with CNAB - Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft), Carolyn Van Slyck (Microsoft) - Part 1
    7. Pack your bags: Managing distributed applications with CNAB - Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft), Carolyn Van Slyck (Microsoft) - Part 2
    8. Pack your bags: Managing distributed applications with CNAB - Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft), Carolyn Van Slyck (Microsoft) - Part 3
    9. Getting started with eBPF - Michael Kehoe (LinkedIn) - Part 1
    10. Getting started with eBPF - Michael Kehoe (LinkedIn) - Part 2
    11. Getting started with eBPF - Michael Kehoe (LinkedIn) - Part 3
    12. Deploying serverless applications to any cloud with Knative - Priyanka Sharma (GitLab), Sébastien Goasguen (TriggerMesh) - Part 1
    13. Deploying serverless applications to any cloud with Knative - Priyanka Sharma (GitLab), Sébastien Goasguen (TriggerMesh) - Part 2
    14. Deploying serverless applications to any cloud with Knative - Priyanka Sharma (GitLab), Sébastien Goasguen (TriggerMesh) - Part 3
    15. DDoS mitigation made easy with XDP and eBPF - Christian Saide (NS1) - Part 1
    16. DDoS mitigation made easy with XDP and eBPF - Christian Saide (NS1) - Part 2
    17. DDoS mitigation made easy with XDP and eBPF - Christian Saide (NS1) - Part 3
    18. DDoS mitigation made easy with XDP and eBPF - Christian Saide (NS1) - Part 4
    19. Ariadne's thread through the labyrinth: Using observability to tame a rogue code base - Isobel Redelmeier (LightStep) - Part 1
    20. Ariadne's thread through the labyrinth: Using observability to tame a rogue code base - Isobel Redelmeier (LightStep) - Part 2
    21. Ariadne's thread through the labyrinth: Using observability to tame a rogue code base - Isobel Redelmeier (LightStep) - Part 3
    22. Cloud native infrastructure deployments with Terraform - Neil Peterson (Microsoft) - Part 1
    23. Cloud native infrastructure deployments with Terraform - Neil Peterson (Microsoft) - Part 2
    24. Cloud native infrastructure deployments with Terraform - Neil Peterson (Microsoft) - Part 3
    25. Cloud native infrastructure deployments with Terraform - Neil Peterson (Microsoft) - Part 4
    26. Fixing the performance of your (probably broken) HTTP/2 deployment - Patrick Meenan (Facebook) - Part 1
    27. Fixing the performance of your (probably broken) HTTP/2 deployment - Patrick Meenan (Facebook) - Part 2
    28. Fixing the performance of your (probably broken) HTTP/2 deployment - Patrick Meenan (Facebook) - Part 3
    29. Base64 is not encryption: A better story for Kubernetes secrets - Seth Vargo (Google) - Part 1
    30. Base64 is not encryption: A better story for Kubernetes secrets - Seth Vargo (Google) - Part 2
    31. Base64 is not encryption: A better story for Kubernetes secrets - Seth Vargo (Google) - Part 3