Call of Duty: DevOps

Abstract:

It's no longer enough to wage war in pre-production. That's where developers have fought their conflicts time and time again--but now they need to cross battle lines and head into Production. It's a new kind of battle, one torn apart with operational complexity, agile missions and server warfare. With access to virtual platforms, monitoring weaponry, and automation tools, developers must now fight to ensure the performance and availability of mission-critical business applications. In this session we'll look at:

• The production battleground of modern mission-critical apps • An overview of special weapons and agile tactics (SWAT) for DevOps • Real-life application fatalities and incidents • Lessons learned from Customers winning the Dev Ops war

Will you heed the call?

Speaker:

Tom Levey is a Technology Evangelist at AppDynamics. Tom is responsible for promoting best practices of application performance management (APM) for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual and physical environments.

Tom has spent 6 years helping organisations to build robust APM technology strategies and has the scars to show for it. He received his BSC in Computer Science and after working as a Java application developer he decided someone really needed to help the world optimise the performance of their applications!

He is an adrenaline junky who loves speed and hopes one day all applications will be able to keep up.