DevOps Melbourne November 2016

2016 is nearly over, and this will be our last meetup for the year. Hopefully we'll go out with a bang! We've got talks on continual learning, choosing the most appropriate Docker platform and a devops journey!

Confirmed speakers:

The Third Way to Success: Leading change with the Toyota Kata - Mike Jones

In "The Phoenix Project" Erik encourages Bill to master The Three Ways.

The DevOps community has many practices, tools, and presentations focused on the First Way (Flow) and the Second Way (Feedback). However tying to implement change is a challenge in every organization. The key to success is to master the Third Way (Continual Learning).

"The Third Way shows us how to create a culture that simultaneously fosters experimentation, learning from failure, and understanding that repetition and practice are the prerequisites to mastery." The Phoenix Project (2013)

Come and learn how the Toyota Kata can help you lead the continuous improvement pattern at scale across your organisation and why the Third Way is key to mastering the First and Second Way.

Impact of distributed strategy through a devops culture at 2ndQuadrant - Gabriele Bartolini

2ndQuadrant is a global company that has adopted the open source business model and leads the development of the PostgreSQL database. Agility has been a key characteristics since the beginning, but by itself, it was not enough to support the growth of the company.

Through looking outside of existing silos and thinking about business value at a global level, 2ndQuadrant has learned and improved over time by investing in its most valuable asset: human beings. This has all been made possible by the flourishing of a devops culture in a collaborative work environment where initiative, practice and failures are considered to be the best way to improve, and where the production pipeline is the living example of organisational learning that continuously grows and adapts organically.

In this talk I will share our experience, from both an organisational and a technical point of view, and divulge our adoption of devops practices.

Choosing our new Docker Platform - Yufei Chen & Thil Bandara

Redbubble's Delivery Engineering team have spent the last few months searching for an alternative to Docker Cloud as the basis for their Docker PaaS. We are going to talk about how we went about selecting different candidates, as well as the pros and cons of each candidate, and finally how we decided which tool that made the cut to become our shiny new Docker PaaS.

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If you can't wait until the 29th to get your DevOps fix, you should check out Lindsay Holmwood at the next YOW! Night on November 15th: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/yow-night-melbourne-lindsay-holmwood-nov-15-tickets-28857396249 (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/yow-night-melbourne-lindsay-holmwood-nov-15-tickets-28857396249.). If you do head along to this - look out for Annmarie from YOW! who has some passes and stuff for upcoming conferences and events.

There's also an all day, online DevOps conference on November 15th that might be interesting: http://www.alldaydevops.com/

Don't forget about Devopsdays Sydney coming up on December 1-2! The program looks great with keynotes from Bridget Kromhout (Pivotal Software) and Nigel Kersten (Puppet). Tickets are $225 (includes lunch on both days and an evening social event on Thursday night). Find out more at https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-sydney/welcome/