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November's nycdevops meetup speaker is John Allspaw, who will give a talk titled "Findings From the Field: 2 Years of Learning From Incidents".

The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in US/Eastern)

Please RSVP! See you there!

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/273826675/

(This is a virtual meetup. Everyone in the world is invited!)

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

November's nycdevops meetup speaker is John Allspaw, who will give a talk titled "Findings From the Field: 2 Years of Learning From Incidents".

The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in US/Eastern)

Please RSVP! See you there!

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/273826675/

(This is a virtual meetup. Everyone in the world is invited!)

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

This month's nycdevops meetup speaker is Nathen Harvey of Google, who will give a talk titled "Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering".

The talk starts at 5pm sharp! (NY is in US/Eastern)

Please RSVP! See you there!

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/272956481/

(This is a virtual meetup. Everyone around the world is invited!)

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

Come one, come all! nycdevops does its first virtual meetup! All are invited!

Hope to see you there!

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

Irina Tishelman from Sonatype will present a talk "Automate or Die - DevSecOps in the Age of Software Supply Chain Attacks" at the November 14, 2019 nycdevops meetup.

The meetup meets at the Stack Overflow office in NYC.

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/265281451/

You don't want to miss this one!

Robert Ross (a.k.a. Bobby Tables) will be the speaker at the next nycdevops meetup on Wed, une 19, 2019.

Full details and RSVP info: https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/261842702/

NOTE: Different day and location!

  • Title: Staying Informed with Kubernetes Informers
  • Speaker: Robert Ross (Bobby Tables) from FireHydrant
  • Date: Wed, June 19, 2019
  • Location: Compass, 90 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10011

Kubernetes state is changing all the time. Pods are being created. Deployments are adding more replicas. Load balancers are being created from services. All of these things can happen without anyone noticing. But sometimes we need to notice, however, for when we need to react to such events. What if we need to push the change to an audit log? When if we want to inform a Slack room about a new deployment? In Kubernetes, this is possible with the informers that are baked into the API and Go client. In this talk we'll learn how informers work, and how to receive updates when resources change using a simple Go application.

SPEAKER BIO:

Bobby is the founder of FireHydrant.io, and also previously worked as a staff software engineer at Namely, and also built things at DigitalOcean. He likes bleeding edge tech and making software that helps teams build better better systems. From deploying Spinnaker, Istio, and Kubernetes, he has cursed at a lack of docs and code spelunked through the code and loves telling the war stories about them.

Full details and RSVP info: https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/261842702/

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

The April nycdevops Meetup is Thursday, April 18. Doors open at 6:30pm!

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/260294692/

NOTE: The meetings are now on THURSDAY.

  • Title: How to build a tamper-evident CI/CD system
  • Speaker: Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy, Datadog, Inc

TALK DESCRIPTION: CI/CD is critical to any DevOps operation today, but when attackers compromise it, they get to distribute malicious software to millions of unsuspecting users. We present how Datadog used TUF and in-toto to develop, to the best of our knowledge, the industry's first end-to-end verified pipeline that automatically builds integrations for the Datadog agent. That is, even if this pipeline is compromised, users should not be able to install malware. We will show a demonstration of our pipeline in production being used to protect users of the Datadog agent, and describe how you can use TUF + in-toto secure your own pipeline.

SPEAKER BIO: Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy is a security engineer at Datadog, Inc. Previously, he led the research and development of The Update Framework (TUF) and Uptane at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is also a member of the IEEE-ISTO Uptane standardization alliance, and an Editor of in-toto Enhancements.

Space is limited. Please RSVP soon!

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

I'll be the speaker at this month's NYC DevOps meetup. My topic is about reforming the operations side of DevOps in a new talk called "My Operations Reform Checklist".

  • Topic: My Operations Reform Checklist
  • Speaker: Tom Limoncelli, SRE Manager, Stack Overflow, Inc
  • When: Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 6:30 PM
  • Where: Stack Overflow HQ, 110 William St, NYC, NY

For complete details and to RSVP:

Taras Lipatov, Principal Engineer at Sailthru, will describe his experience building a hybrid cloud using docker/mesos/consul­ at the Tuesday, November 14, 2017 nycdevops meetup. More info and to RSVP on https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/241852995/. RSVP soon! See you there!

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

We will have two meetings in October. The extra meeting will be on Mon, Oct 2 co-located with the VelocityNYC conference. You don't have to be registered for the conference to come to the meeting.

  • Topic: DNSControl: "DNS as Code" from StackOverflow.com
  • Speaker: Thomas A. Limoncelli, SRE Manager @ Stack Overflow
  • Date: Monday, October 2, 2017
  • Time: 6:30-9:30 PM (SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION)
  • Location: Madison Suite, Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019
  • https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/243369226/

VelocityNYC is in town this week. They've graciously provided space for us to host an additional meeting. Space is limited! RSVP soon! Full details and RSVP.

  • Topic: Storing Secrets in Cloud based Key Management Services
  • Speaker: Dan O'Boyle, Stack Overflow, Inc.
  • Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2017
  • Time: 6:30-9:30 PM
  • Location: Stack Overflow HQ, 110 William St, 28th floor, NY, NY
  • https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/241803854/

The A/C is fixed! Don't miss this cool event! Full details and RSVP.

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

This month's NYCDevOps meetup speaker will be Seth Thomas talking about "Habitat in Production".

  • Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
  • Time: 6:30 PM
  • Location: Stack Overflow HQ, 110 William St, 28th floor, NY, NY

Space is limited! RSVP soon!

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/240064742/

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

This month's NYCDevOps meetup speaker will be Martín Beauchamp talking about "Clos Networks for Datacenters".

  • Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2017
  • Time: 6:30 PM
  • Location: Stack Overflow HQ, 110 William St, 28th floor, NY, NY

Space is limited! RSVP soon!

https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/240295361/

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

Don't forget to RSVP by 1pm the day of the meeting: http://meetu.ps/39FgcP

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

Next week's NYCDevOps Meetup speaker is my co-worker, Mark Henderson, on the topic of "Measuring real-world DNS performance at Stack Overflow".

An in-depth look at how Stack Overflow records real-world DNS performance, and how you can do it too. You'll learn how we measured DNS performance when picking a DNS vendor, deciding whether or not to set up dual-DNS providers, and more.

The meeting is Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 7:00 PM at the Stack Overflow HQ in New York City.

For complete information and to RSVP, visit http://meetu.ps/39FgcP. Space is limited. RSVP soon!

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

Here are my notes from last night's NYCDevOps meeting.

Title: Using innersourcing to break down organizational barriers
Speaker: Aroon Gursahaney, Verizon

This was one of the best talks I've seen in a while because it was entirely new material for me. I haven't heard of a company doing anything like this.

Last night I learned:

  • You can replace legacy systems by crowdsourcing parts of the project to people around the company in exchange for giving them the opportunity to learn new technologies, tools, and devops practices
  • You can gamify culture change in an organization
  • You cam make crowdsourcing the norm, not the exception.
  • Money motivates but a bigger motivation is interesting projects and the opportunity to learn, and to do something new.
  • 21 teams. 12 outside his VP's organization, 106 people participated.
  • In 2 days of the game, 2 months of progress was made on the project.
  • People took tasks not in their expertise areas, but where they could learn the most.
  • Seeing your code in production in other people's projects is a big source of pride, which is a big source of motivation.

Next month's speaker will be announced soon on the NYCDevOps meetup page.

Posted by Tom Limoncelli in NYCDevOps Meetup

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