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World Congress 2021 • Jul 29, 2021

The journey from developer to devops - what i've learnt along the way

Liam Hurrel , Alireza Chegini

True DevOps culture goes far beyond Kubernetes. Learn how predictive monitoring, blameless reviews, and clear communication can slash your build times from two hours to ten minutes.

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#1 about 5 min

Guiding enterprise financial teams through public cloud migrations

Coaching engineers on requirement analysis and initial architecture steps facilitates smoother transitions to public cloud environments.

#2 about 4 min

Discovering a passion for programming on early personal computers

Early exploration of basic programming environments sparks a lifelong interest in self-guided software development.

#3 about 3 min

Evolving through early developer roles and technology stacks

Bridging the gap between clients and engineers provides vital experience across foundational enterprise database architectures.

#4 about 8 min

Identifying the limitations of waterfall methodologies and physical deployments

Experiencing painfully slow manual releases and poor runtime visibility highlights the critical need for continuous integration.

#5 about 7 min

Breaking down organizational silos to define platform engineering culture

Removing the restrictive boundaries between software developers and hardware engineers restores structural agility to software delivery.

#6 about 9 min

Solving architectural challenges during rapid public cloud migrations

Accelerating legacy code builds and implementing application performance analytics decisively unblocks delayed production releases.

#7 about 6 min

Fostering developer awareness and data visibility in production

Providing developers with read-only access to live environments actively shifts engineering culture towards proactive problem solving.

#8 about 5 min

Prioritizing communication and structural awareness over strict tool mastery

Exceptional interpersonal abilities and a holistic understanding of the software lifecycle strongly differentiate leading platform engineers.

Matching moments

4:30 min

Transitioning from software engineering into a DevOps trajectory

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Overcoming cultural friction and scaling DevOps team practices

Jacob Duijzer · LIVE

3:03 min

Evolution from waterfall to agile and DevOps

Aarno Aukia · LIVE

3:32 min

Shifting to a DevOps career from non-technical backgrounds

Megha Kadur · LIVE

4:17 min

Origins of adopting DevOps and overcoming infrastructure bottlenecks

Thomas Fuchs +3 · LIVE

7:56 min

Evolution of software delivery and the devops pipeline

Raz Cohen · LIVE

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