Eric D. Schabell: LeadDev New York 2023 - Burning DevOps and Shifting Left O11y

Monday, December 5, 2022

LeadDev New York 2023 - Burning DevOps and Shifting Left O11y

In the Spring of 2023 there will be a new conference on my calendar called LeadDev New York. It's a conference about all things around engineering leadership and I thought I might have a few things to share so I'm submitting a few talks.

Get ready for behind-the-scenes case studies from top engineering organizations, practical advice and frameworks, and community networking with leaders from around the globe.

It's a bit outside of my normal event type, but I have been in this business long enough to start sharing some of the insights based on that experience. 

Below are the talks I'm putting forth as my contribution to LeadDev and hope to see you in March 2023.

Both of these talks are about ways to identify and improve on the DevOps culture and experience in your organization.

3 Pitfalls Burning Out Your DevOps Team

Key Takeaways - Attendees to this session will learn they are not the only ones struggling with common pitfalls that are burning out their DevOps team while implementing solutions at cloud native scale. They will leave with actionable insights that can help reduce stress on their teams, getting more development and less resource churn.

Abstract:

For many organizations, reliance on business-critical applications that need to be running 24/7, at scale, and with great resiliency has become a way of life. The problems that come with this cloud native scale, is that your DevOps team is being stretched to their limits.

Attendees will be presented with three common pitfalls seen time and again as developers transitioning into DevOps that are leading to on-call burn out and churn. Let’s put the joy back in the Dev of DevOps with actionable insights in avoiding these common pitfalls.


Shifting Cloud Native Observability to the Left

Key Takeaways - Attendees to this session will gain insights into DevOps and cloud native tips and tricks for spending more time on their projects that matter and less time on call. Real world actionable insights that bring value to their daily roles.

Abstract:

The emergence of cloud native environments has changed our platform world. Not only are you coding, but expected to deliver, maintain, and support all aspects of the platform. This change means the Ops in DevOps has been overshadowing why we got into development in the first place. There is hope for us yet if we can just manage to shift left to close the gap in our time spent on non-operational activities. How do we do that, you ask? It’s imperative that developers are given not only the organizational structure to succeed, and even more critical is the ability to reduce time on triaging failures in their deployments. Attendees will be provided with insights into DevOps cloud native tips and tricks to spending more time on projects that matter and less on call. Join us in learning how you can shift left with your DevOps activities to bring more joy to your days. Attendees to this session will gain insights into DevOps and cloud native tips and tricks for spending more time on their projects that matter and less time on call. Real world actionable insights that bring value to their daily roles.

Fingers crossed we meet up to share our thoughts on leadership in New York.