DevOops Athens #4

Get ready because DevOops Athens #4 is on Tuesday, April 15, and we’re back at Impact Hub Athens (Karaiskaki 28, 105 54) for another round of real-world DevOps chaos, shared lessons and mild trauma.

Backups Are Useless… Until You Need Them
Backups are your last line of defense—but what happens when they silently fail? In this talk, we’ll dissect a real-world DevOps horror story where a highly available key management system crumbled at the worst possible moment.

We’ll uncover how a misconfigured backup pipeline, misleading health checks, and overlooked storage failures led to near-catastrophic rollbacks. Despite rigorous automation and monitoring, critical security keys became unrecoverable, exposing hidden risks in our CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code deployments.

Join Matina Tsavli as we explore:

• How DevOps automation can introduce blind spots in security-critical backups
• Why traditional monitoring fails when disaster strikes
• How to build resilience against silent backup failures in cloud and on-prem environments
• Lessons learned from debugging an unpredictable recovery process

If your team relies on automated backups, you need to hear this story—because when things go wrong, it’s already too late to fix them.

Presentation by Matina Tsavli - Security Manager at Accenture

Agenda
19:30 - Welcoming
19:45 - Backups Are Useless… Until You Need Them
20:15 - Break
20:30 - Networking over food and drinks

Speaker

• Matina Tsavli, Security Manager at Accenture

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