Chicago 2014 - Proposals

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This page lists the proposals we have received. Help the presenters with your feedback!

Conference Talks

  1. 50 Shades of Shell - There is a Time When Shell is No More - Proposal 41
  2. Adopting XP Practices for IaC Development - Proposal 58
  3. Audits don't have to suck - Proposal 33
  4. Building Top-Down Support for DevOps - Proposal 1
  5. Celebratin' Half a Decade of DevOps - Proposal 38
  6. Challenges Facing DevOps in the Public Sector and Why You Should Care - Proposal 64
  7. Closing the Loop - Proposal 55
  8. Containerize Your SDLC - Proposal 50
  9. Continuous Delivery and Business Strategy - Proposal 34
  10. DevOps == 42 & Three Destructive Myths - J. Paul Reed
  11. DevOps Journey Map for Customers - Proposal 19
  12. DevOps Leadership, Lessons Learned - Proposal 24
  13. DevOps and Product Learning - Proposal 2
  14. DevOps and Security - Proposal 17
  15. DevOps at a DevOps Startup - Proposal 37
  16. DevOps consulting as a business - Proposal 26
  17. Documentation through Automation - Proposal 61
  18. Elasticsearch in Production - Proposal 3
  19. Encrypt all the packets! - Proposal 30
  20. Failure Friday! - Start injecting failure today - Proposal 31
  21. From Small Companies to the Enterprise: Continuous Deployments with Octopus Deploy - Proposal 42
  22. From Water-Scrum-Fall to DevOps -- The journey we had and ahead of us - Proposal 21
  23. Fully Automated Enterprise Deployments – In the Kitchen with Chef - Proposal 7
  24. Health Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself - Proposal 11
  25. How (not) to pull a Nathen Harvey [Quitting your job and devop-ing the wrong way] - Proposal 15
  26. How Much Is That DevOps In The Window? - Bridget Kromhout
  27. How Puppet Labs approaches the DevOps culture - Proposal 32
  28. How to effectively iterate on your Ansible Playbooks using Vagrant and Docker - Proposal 9
  29. How to make a video game - Proposal 22
  30. I have no idea what I'm talking about... and neither do you! - Proposal 27
  31. Idempotence, Immutability, and Concurrency: Backing up Big Data - Proposal 63
  32. Introverts and Tech Conferences - How to avoid stress and enjoy yourself - Tom Duffield
  33. Iterative Infrastructure - Proposal 23
  34. Layeth the SMACeth down(eth) - Turning DevOps on Its Head - Steve Pereira
  35. Leveraging DevOps Tools for Training - Proposal 54
  36. Mean Time to Responsibility: The Lost Metric - Proposal 51
  37. Microservices Not Monoliths - Proposal 48
  38. My Testing Journey on Cloud Foundry - Proposal 45
  39. Not So Trusty - Proposal 44
  40. On Automating Security - Proposal 43
  41. Overhype Overload - Proposal 46
  42. Policy Management as Code - Proposal 29
  43. Preparing for a SOC2 Audit with DevOps in Mind - Brian Henerey
  44. Priorities Affect Us All.... Differently! - Andy Domeier
  45. Real World DevOps - Proposal 16
  46. Rocking Out To Chef Metal - Proposal 5
  47. Roll Forward, Roll Back, Cancel The Release - Jacob Tomaw
  48. Rules of DevOops - Randi Harper
  49. Security, Logs and the ELK Stack - Proposal 56
  50. Source to Deployment w/ Gradle & Docker - Proposal 53
  51. Tales from the Scrum Bowl: My Double Life as a Developer and ScrumMaster - Proposal 52
  52. The Human Side of Cloud Monitoring - Proposal 20
  53. The Incredible Journey: Measuring Performance Along the Entire Stack - Proposal 6
  54. The Last DevOps Tool - Fletcher Nichol
  55. The Spiritual Journey of DevOps - Proposal 18
  56. Using Mesos + Docker for Cost-Effective, High-performance Infrastructure - Proposal 68
  57. Who Watches the Watchmen? - Arup Chakrabarti
  58. Why Dev Needs DevOps - Proposal 36
  59. Why You're Destroying DevOps - Proposal 12

Ignite Talks

  1. "If Only They Knew" - The Dunning-Kruger Effect - Seth Goings
  2. Automating Zero-Downtime Deployments to AWS using Hubot - Proposal 22
  3. Computers in Science Fiction - Proposal 10
  4. Configuration Management for Tech Leads - Phaedra Marshall
  5. Customer Service & Support in Devops - Mark Cornick
  6. From Dev and Ops to DevOps at Orbitz Worldwide - Proposal 70
  7. From The Major BBS to Mingle, my road to Continuous Deployment - Proposal 14
  8. Helping DevOps Stand on the Shoulders of Giants - Proposal 28
  9. Implementing Change - Sasha Rosenbaum
  10. Keep DevOps Simple - Tom Martin
  11. Multi-Container Docker Management with Panamax - Proposal 59
  12. Rediscover the Physical World of Embedded Linux - Proposal 47
  13. Repository as a Deployment Artifact - Proposal 60
  14. Strategies for Living Without Scheduled Maintenance - Doug Barth
  15. That's not a DevOps... *this* is a DevOps - Alan Sharp-Paul
  16. We're Getting the Band Back Together! - Proposal 13
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Silver sponsors

DRW Trading VictorOps ServerCentral Puppet Labs Enova 10th Magnitude


Bronze sponsors

Opinion Lab


Media sponsors

O'Reilly Media Arrested DevOps Food Fight Show The Ship Show Blacks in Technology


Wifi sponsors

Cisco Meraki Backstop Solutions Group