November 2024 DevOps Meetup

1st talk - DevOps tools

Speaker: Dani Yelovitch
Role: DevOps Engineer at SentinelOne
Abstract:
Part of being a devops is knowing what tools to use, and unless you are working in one of tech giants, you will probably use a 3rd party tool.
In this presentation I will talk about how to choose the best tools for your use case, about the hidden cost of these free tools, and share some stories about what happens when you make the wrong choice.

2nd talk - Full CI/CD: Build & End-to-End Tests for Every PR in Under 10 Minutes
Speaker: Vaclav Broz from PumpitUp

Many mistake automated deployment pipelines for true CI/CD. Here’s a quick test: if a pull request is approved, can you go to sleep, knowing it’ll deploy within minutes and perform as expected? Often, not because:

• You lack trust in automated tests
• Running all tests with every PR is too difficult

Is it possible to overcome these challenges and achieve real CI/CD?

Using our PaaS/SaaS product sixpack.dev as an example, built with a microservice/agent architecture, I'll explain why we chose real CI/CD as a core principle of our product delivery. I'll also cover the trade-offs we made to achieve this, touching on both process and technical issues, and how our tech stack (Azure DevOps, Pumpo5, Spring, SvelteKit, NATS, Temporal, and more) played a role.