Cloud Connect
Santa Clara , 2011
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara Convention Center
Nearly everything about software development has changed. Clouds make it easy to experiment on the fly; they bring together the roles of development and operations; and they require new tools for deployment and validation. Agile engineering and the Devops movement are direct results of adaptive, on-demand platforms. In this track, we'll look at the changing face of application engineering, from the first line of code to the automation of massively distributed systems.
| Thursday, March 10 | |
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Changing tools is easy when compared to changing people and process. How can you cultivate an organization’s culture to identify and solve DevOps problems? From both the bottom up and the top down, what are the effective strategies for implementing DevOps best practices? Speaker - Andrew Shafer, VP of Engineering, Cloudscaling Andrew Shafer is a lead engineer and infrastructure consultant at Cloudscaling where he helps organizations leverage and create next generation cloud computing resources and platforms. Since 2004, he has been a regular participant in the Salt Lake City Agile Roundtable and a team member or manager in an Agile setting. Andrew brings with him a background in computational science, embedded Linux, database administration, web frameworks, and operations. In addition to technical expertise, Andrew is focused on finding ways to balance prescriptive processes with the uniqueness of projects and teams. Speaker - Lloyd Taylor, VP of Infrastructure, ngmoco:) | |
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In this session, you learn effective strategies for automating the core DevOps gap -- getting releases from code check-in in Development through to where it is running in Production Operations. While noting tools for your further research, speakers will focus on tool independent processes and best practices you can bring to your own organization. Speaker - Juan Paul Ramirez, Vice President of Engineering, Shopzilla  Juan Paul is Vice President of Engineering at Shopzilla, having successfully lead or played a substantial role in the delivery of virtually every software application in the company, including the large scale affiliate program, and initial launch of the company’s latest products, beso and TaDa. Speaker - Alex Honor, Founder, Rundeck open source project and DTO Solutions  Alex Honor is the founder of various open source automation projects. Has been involved in the development and management of large scale online systems for over 15 years, including critical roles at E*TRADE, NASA Ames Research, Open Design, and DTO Solutions. He is a frequent speaker at regional user group meetings on issues of system scalability and deployment automation. Speaker - Teyo Tyree, VP of Business Development, Puppet Labs Teyo has worked as a Unix systems administrator at startups, medium sized businesses and large corporations. Over the course of his 12 year career, he has been focused on automated configuration management as a means to provide robust and scalable computing environments. Teyo has traveled all over the world training sysadmins and developers on how to build automated infrastructures using the Puppet framework. | |
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This lively session will feature a panel of DevOps experts discussing past victories, horror stories, and the future of DevOps. Come join in the discussion with any DevOps related questions or comments. Moderator - Damon Edwards, Co-Founder and President, DTO Solutions  Damon Edwards is the co-founder and president of the DTO Solutions consulting group. DTO Solutions specializes in automated infrastructure and process improvement consulting for large-scale, mission critical IT operations, including Intuit, Dun & Bradsteet, E*Trade, LinkedIn, iControl, SilverSpring Networks, and AT&T. Damon is also a frequent contributor to the dev2ops.org blog, focusing on automation and process issues faced by cloud, software-as-a-service, and e-commerce organizations. Panelist - Juan Paul Ramirez, Vice President of Engineering, Shopzilla Juan Paul is Vice President of Engineering at Shopzilla, having successfully lead or played a substantial role in the delivery of virtually every software application in the company, including the large scale affiliate program, and initial launch of the company’s latest products, beso and TaDa. Panelist - Alex Honor, Founder, Rundeck open source project and DTO Solutions Alex Honor is the founder of various open source automation projects. Has been involved in the development and management of large scale online systems for over 15 years, including critical roles at E*TRADE, NASA Ames Research, Open Design, and DTO Solutions. He is a frequent speaker at regional user group meetings on issues of system scalability and deployment automation. Panelist - Andrew Shafer, VP of Engineering, Cloudscaling Andrew Shafer is a lead engineer and infrastructure consultant at Cloudscaling where he helps organizations leverage and create next generation cloud computing resources and platforms. Since 2004, he has been a regular participant in the Salt Lake City Agile Roundtable and a team member or manager in an Agile setting. Andrew brings with him a background in computational science, embedded Linux, database administration, web frameworks, and operations. In addition to technical expertise, Andrew is focused on finding ways to balance prescriptive processes with the uniqueness of projects and teams. Panelist - Lloyd Taylor, VP of Infrastructure, ngmoco:) Panelist - James Urquhart, Market Strategist, Cloud Computing Service Provider Systems Unit, Cisco  James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular cloud computing blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. James has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College. Panelist - Teyo Tyree, VP of Business Development, Puppet Labs Teyo has worked as a Unix systems administrator at startups, medium sized businesses and large corporations. Over the course of his 12 year career, he has been focused on automated configuration management as a means to provide robust and scalable computing environments. Teyo has traveled all over the world training sysadmins and developers on how to build automated infrastructures using the Puppet framework. | |
Take a deep dive into related DevOps topics in pre-conference workshops.
| Monday, March 7 | |
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This one day tutorial focuses on IT operations and automation in an environment that uses Cloud Computing. Coverage of standard IT operational disciplines, such as, monitoring, configuration management, orchestration and continuos delivery will be discussed. Some of the industry leading specialists in the newly named "Devops" field will be panel members. If you're interested in hearing how some experts manage their cloudy world after they are finished with provisioning please join us for this one day session. Course Outline * Cloudy Operations - An Overview * Devops - Why Should You Care * Configuration Management in the Cloud * Monitoring in the Cloud * Continuous Delivery in the Cloud * Cloudy Operations Roundtable Q&A Instructor - John Willis, Vice President of Training & Services, Opscode  John has over three decades working in the IT trenches managing complex infrastructures. Prior to joining Opscode, he founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. John has trained more than 10,000 people on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems. Speaker - Andrew Shafer, VP of Engineering, Cloudscaling Andrew Shafer is a lead engineer and infrastructure consultant at Cloudscaling where he helps organizations leverage and create next generation cloud computing resources and platforms. Since 2004, he has been a regular participant in the Salt Lake City Agile Roundtable and a team member or manager in an Agile setting. Andrew brings with him a background in computational science, embedded Linux, database administration, web frameworks, and operations. In addition to technical expertise, Andrew is focused on finding ways to balance prescriptive processes with the uniqueness of projects and teams. Speaker - Pascal-Louis Perez, CTO and VP, Engineering, Wealthfront  Pascal-Louis Perez came to Wealthfront from Google, where he worked on the creation of the Closure Compiler. At Google, Pascal sat on the ECMA committee, working towards the standardization of ECMAScript 4. An entrepreneur since youth, Pascal created his first company at the age of 16. Pascal is the co-author of Vocation Createurs (Editions du Tricorne, 2004), a book about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. A graduate of the Federal Institut of Technology Lausanne, he holds a master's degree with a distinction in research from Stanford University. Speaker - Paul Guth, Vice President, Technical Operations, Cloudscaling | |
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Need to get up to cloud speed in a hurry? This fast-paced, densely packed workshop will give you the foundation you need to understand where utility computing is headed. Join Bitcurrent analyst and Cloud Connect content chair Alistair Croll for a look at the fundamentals of on-demand infrastructure. Cloud Computing is a major shift in IT. It's similar to the switch from circuit- to packet-based networking, or from procedural to object-oriented programming, or from mainframes to client-server models. As with those shifts, some IT professionals will thrive -- and others will become obsolete. Clouds rely on a new set of fundamentals: horizontal scaling, sharding, eventually consistent data systems, virtualization, and more. In this two-hour workshop, we'll cover these fundamentals and understand how they combine to give us today's cloud offerings. Attendees will learn:
This workshop is aimed at IT professionals who want a solid understanding of cloud issues and design primitives, but it's equally well suited to industry insiders, product managers, and technologists who want to see how to better explain cloud technology to their customers and peers. Instructor - Alistair Croll, Founder, BitCurrent  Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. | |
