PDX DevOps Monthly Meetup!

Join us for our monthly gathering to discuss everything from incident response to cross-team collaboration to automation frameworks.

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THIS MONTH: LIGHTNING TALKS!

Removing Friction in the Terminal

The terminal is a constant in most of our lives; spending a little time now to save many cycles later just makes sense. In this talk I'm going to introduce you to my top five friction-removing plugins for zsh.

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Steve Klassen lives in the Pacific Northwest with his partner, Kayla, and his toddler, Mackenzie. He works at CrowdStrike as a cloud engineer (Go, mostly), and enjoys sharing what he learns via his blog, some internal wikis, and these talks and lunch 'n learn sessions.

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International Dark Sky Week

International Dark Sky Week (https://idsw.darksky.org) is 22 April to 30 April this year. What even is it? Why is this good? What's the IDA? What can you do about it?

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Emily Strickland likes snacks and treats and serves as VP of Communications for Rose City Astronomers.

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Sandboxes, not just for kids anymore

Navio makes web apps that help cancer patients and deploys them at Amazon using Terraform. In order to work on multiple features in parallel, and then quickly release them to production, we've created a system of sandbox environments that can be easily created and destroyed. Our solution relies on terraform workspaces, allows backend and frontends to be tested together or separately, and optimizes cost by sharing some components while keeping persistent state separate. We'll describe the system, demonstrate creating a sandbox and solicit ideas about how others solve this problem.

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Christopher Mason is the Head of Engineering at Navio, Ocean sailor, Devops journeyman.

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The wall of awful; tactics for summiting your most mountainous mole hills

The wall of awful is the mental block we put in front of things we need to do. One of mine's opening my mail. Should be easy, right? Then why does it wind up being a biannual event?

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Trip Longworth is a devops dork who loves reducing friction where people, processes, and technology meet. They are Developer Advocate at Garden.io and would love to help you get out of the CI queue and back into the fun parts of your job. And/or to the nearest karaoke bar.

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