DevOps is not a Dev Oops!

Abstract:

Technologies evolved dramatically in the last few years to support the needs of production environment. Tools like Puppet changed the way we can apply configuration in a massive scale and provisioning new prototypes easily. Application Containers (i.e. Dockers) changed our way to package/patch and deliver application in a simplest and fastest manner. NoSql databases and specifically mongoDB changed the way we are dealing with none structural data and Hadoop burned the barriers to big data. DevOps concept brought developers and operations teams together to build the strongest infrastructure and to gain customers satisfaction and loyalty. Despite these dramatic changes of our technological environment we still use the same 10years-old development methodologies: Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban - which should be already obsolete or at least adjusted to address the need of being more flexible in decision making, tasks and integration forces and mutual adjustment to our rapidly developing industry. In this presentation we will cover how we use cloud circles methodology to implement VMware vRealize Air platform for SaaS management, while walkthrough a real e2e phase of our SDLC.

Speakers:

Dani Matzlavi is a Senior Manager R&D leading the VMware vRealize Air development. Previously leading also VMware APM and VMware VIN. He has more than 12 years of experience in the software industry as developer, architect and manager. Prior to VMware Dani had several roles in EMC IONIX mainly around the application discovery and mapping domains and in the telecom services provisioning domain from TTI-Telecom.

Dani is keen to find the ultimate development methodology that fits modern cloud development the best and he is the creator of the “Cloud circles” methodology.

Lena Dolinina is a DevOps Team Lead with more than 10 years experience in Automation and CI from high-tech leading companies - EMC, RedHat and VMware. She makes working the most challenging processes of CD in VMware SaaS environment and leading the VMware DevOps community. Elena likes any kind of sport that doesn't require heavy equipment (diving and cycling are out of scope) and spends her spare time with family and chivava dogs. Secretly she would love to win 10km run at Israel Athletics Championship and long for the children to be old enough to fly to Tibet.