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#VelocityConf 2019 – Top 5 Talks from the Best Minds in the Nation

OverOps

Russ has literally written the book on building adaptable software, and travels internationally to speak, train and consult others. In this session, you’ll apply concepts you learn in hands-on exercises. This course will be taught by international speaker and author Russ Miles, CEO of ChaosIQ. Navigating the Midcareer Plateau.

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

CIO

We had five different forecast engines running in the company through various acquisitions,” says Lars Ewe, who inherited the thorny IT environment when he joined as CTO in February 2020. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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AI Chihuahua! Part I: Why Machine Learning is Dogged by Failure and Delays

d2iq

While there is a large infrastructure component that can often be handled by DevOps or platform engineers, the challenges unique to machine learning mean in practice that they need to have a solid background in modelling too. CTO: With 100,000 products in our catalogue and many of them seasonal, we cannot rely on manual curation.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go. Done right, it’s an exercise in customer discovery: technical debt allows for faster exposure of opportunities. DevOps transformation! Containers!

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Chaos Engineering and Continuous Verification in Production

LaunchDarkly

So, I’m going to talk about a couple different mental models and how those relate back to doing things in production and some of the evolution that we’re seeing in, for lack of a better word, DevOps and best practices across the industry. If they have to consult the runbook, then it’s basically a guess on their part.

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8 change management questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

“Change management is not something that can be haphazardly addressed toward the end of a transformation-type initiative,” says Matt Mead, CTO at technology modernization firm SPR. Instead, CIOs must view change management as a kind of GPS for transformation initiatives, designed to keep them on track from the get-go. “It

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Two Tales

LaunchDarkly

Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain and one of the original SREs at Google, shared two stories. Eric Pollmann: My name is Eric Pollmann, I amount a lifelong software engineer, currently the CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain, my co-founder Bilal right there in the back, and one of our teammates also, thanks for joining.