DevOpsDays NYC 2018 Ignite Talk on Golang

I had an amazing experience at DevOpsDays NYC 2018. The organizers put together an all-star lineup. You can tell this meant a lot to the organizers by the quality of the event itself; it was top notch. Being a part of the DevOps community is absolutely amazing. I am always thrilled to get invites to DevOpsDays events; they’re so well done. I was able to speak about Go and how I used it to save my DevOps ass at Solarwinds MSP....

January 19, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

GopherCon 2017 Lightning Talk Video

Video of all the GopherCon 2017 talks are now available. Fifty-eight videos in all; it’s almost like being there. You can watch Ashley McNamara’s goosebump inducing talk, Kris Nova’s refreshing take on purging technical debt from kops, or Sam Boyer’s dep talk. My lightning talk, Golang to the rescue: Saving DevOps from TLS turmoil, is also available. Give it a watch when you have a moment. It’s not my best work but, the only way to get better is to keep at it....

July 26, 2017 · 1 min · Chris Short

Testing Certificate Chains in Go

This talk was derived from an opensource.com article I wrote in April 2017, Golang to the rescue: Saving DevOps from TLS turmoil. Presented at GopherCon 2017 as a Lightning Talk. Source for the talk is available on GitHub. Introduction Notes: Hi! I’m Chris! I manage do X at Y (we’re hiring) I work in the DevOps space I contribute content a few places I run a DevOps Newsletter called DevOps’ish if you’re into those please check it out This talk was derived from an opensource....

July 22, 2017 · 5 min · Chris Short