September 2017: HumanOps and Continuous Delivery

Sept 2017: HumanOps and Continuous Delivery

Talk 1: Hannah Foxwell - Building resilient HumanOps

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Building resilient systems is what we do and we do it well, but how much time do we spend working on our own personal resilience? In the ever changing world of technology, how do we ensure we are flexible, adaptable and resilient in the face of challenges and setbacks?

In this talk we’ll look at ways in which we can improve the resilience of our organisations, our teams and ourselves. Because if your team isn’t ready for change, your platform isn’t either.

Speaker Bio:

Hannah is Product Manager at Server Density, HumanOps champion, HugOps evangelist and recovering DevOps consultant. Hannah believes that the health of your infrastructure is not just about hardware, software, automation and uptime – It also includes the health and wellbeing of your team.

@HannahFoxwell (https://twitter.com/HannahFoxwell)

Talk 2: Wes Mason - Ops for Humans: Infrastructure that makes everyone happy, not just your vendors

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A large focus of DevOps culture has been on embracing automation in order to offload repetitive tasks from Smart People™ to our robot overlords COUGH I mean helpers, which can help lower business costs.

But what if we focus not just on the bottom line and KPIs, but people themselves?

With some care and thought for the frustrations and cognitive issues that devs, ops and business folk encounter regularly you'll not only make everyone happier, but in turn improve business performance.

Expect an overview and case-studies of:

Common operations tools, and across software engineering

Common operations tools, and across software engineering

Infrastructure patterns for deployments

On call rotation and postmortems

Speaker Bio:

Wes is a polyglot developer with nearly two decades of experience programming large scale networked applications and release engineering.

@1stvamp (https://twitter.com/1stvamp)