Public Speaking

A curated list of things to read to level up your DevOps skills and knowledge. This list has grown significantly since this talk. Find the latest version at DevOps README Slides: DevOps README.MD Blog Post: DevOps README.md Source: DevOpsDays Detroit 2017 Download as MP4 (right click, Save As…) If you'd like to have me speak at your conference, Meetup, podcast, webinar, live stream, etc. please send me a message. Thank you! Here's a current list of ready to go abstracts that I can speak to at a moments notice.

Ignite talks are a special talk format: 5 minute talks consisting of 20 slides which auto advance every 15 seconds. It’s a really neat talk format. In Ignite Karaoke, the slides auto advance, but there are only 5 slides per talk, except you have no idea what your slides will look like! It leads to some pretty funny improv. Source: DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017 Ignite Karaoke (Part 2) Download as MP4 (right click, Save As…) ...

People think that DevOps, Cloud Native, Agile, GROWS, etc. are all rainbows and roses. You start small, work your way up or you decide as an organizational unit to change. These are two patterns associated with a Jedi-type maturation process of DevOps. Like in Star Wars, DevOps has a dark side. This talk provides examples of successful and failed DevOps transformations as well as some lessons learned along the way. ...

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. Hats off to the organizers for getting these videos up so quickly. It feels like I just got back from Denver. The quality of the videos and the speed at which they were made available lends great credit to all involved in the production efforts. ...

I had the opportunity to present What The Military Taught Me About DevOps at the Triangle DevOps Meetup last night. It was a fantastic group of people and I fielded a lot of great feedback after speaking. One takeaway I have from the talk, is that I need to get better at speaking on diversity issues. But, that is for another time. One person asked if I would be willing to share my slides. I informed him that they were already shared but I think the notes that accompany the slides are important to share too: ...