2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH AQ3ANW@@talks.devopsdays.org -AQ3ANW Welcome en en 20260505T090000 20260505T091500 001500 Welcome PUBLIC CONFIRMED All Hands https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/AQ3ANW/ Ballroom PUBLISH CNHD3P@@talks.devopsdays.org -CNHD3P From the Hiring Floor: AI Signals in a Shifting Market en en 20260505T091500 20260505T100000 004500 From the Hiring Floor: AI Signals in a Shifting Market PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/CNHD3P/ Ballroom Will Longenecker PUBLISH QA8WGY@@talks.devopsdays.org -QA8WGY Harness - Happy Hour Sponsor en en 20260505T100000 20260505T100200 000200 Harness - Happy Hour Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/QA8WGY/ Ballroom PUBLISH 3F3EBN@@talks.devopsdays.org -3F3EBN Liquibase - Happy Hour Sponsor en en 20260505T100200 20260505T100400 000200 Liquibase - Happy Hour Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/3F3EBN/ Ballroom PUBLISH KJKEHM@@talks.devopsdays.org -KJKEHM Beyond the Prompt: Building a Cognitive Control Plane en en 20260505T101500 20260505T103500 002000 Beyond the Prompt: Building a Cognitive Control Plane PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/KJKEHM/ Ballroom Byron Miller PUBLISH FJ3MDF@@talks.devopsdays.org -FJ3MDF How to Get Started With Automated Testing In the Age of AI en en 20260505T104500 20260505T110500 002000 How to Get Started With Automated Testing In the Age of AI PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/FJ3MDF/ Ballroom Daniel Ward PUBLISH QESPSK@@talks.devopsdays.org -QESPSK Unlocking Document Intelligence with Open-Source AI en en 20260505T111500 20260505T113500 002000 Unlocking Document Intelligence with Open-Source AI Most organizational knowledge is still locked inside complex documents, making it difficult to extract and use the information effectively. Traditional tools often fail when working with real-world document formats, particularly PDFs. In this talk, I'll be introducing Docling, an open-source project that takes a different approach, using deep learning models to parse documents the way humans read them. It preserves hierarchy, extracts structured data through a consistent API, and supports over ten common file formats out of the box. We will walk through Docling's architecture and its unique DoclingDocument data structure, demonstrate how Docling's features help build document processing pipelines that can be leveraged for various applications. Lastly, I'll share how teams have leveraged Docling to ingest previously inaccessible data while reducing document processing costs. And of course most importantly, all of Docling is open-source and under an MIT license, which allows for fully local execution with low latency to reduce data privacy exposure. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/QESPSK/ Ballroom Mingxuan Zhao Abby Tse PUBLISH 3EYMGF@@talks.devopsdays.org -3EYMGF LaunchDarkly - Gold Sponsor en en 20260505T130500 20260505T130700 000200 LaunchDarkly - Gold Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/3EYMGF/ Ballroom PUBLISH GKLTKH@@talks.devopsdays.org -GKLTKH Zesty - Gold Sponsor en en 20260505T130700 20260505T130900 000200 Zesty - Gold Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/GKLTKH/ Ballroom PUBLISH LGQJNK@@talks.devopsdays.org -LGQJNK A Practical Field-guide to Influence Technical Decisions You Don't Own en en 20260505T131000 20260505T131500 000500 A Practical Field-guide to Influence Technical Decisions You Don't Own Hi, I'm Sindhu 👋🏽 I'm an organizer for DevOpsDays ATL. I have played the various roles of Engineer, Consultant, and Product Manager over the years. I regularly coach customers and colleagues on navigating influence challenges, and I've found that practitioners are hungry for specific, actionable tactics rather than leadership generalities. I'd like to take years offline coaching and turn it into an audubon society style field guide. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/LGQJNK/ Ballroom Sindhu PUBLISH DF8PTL@@talks.devopsdays.org -DF8PTL Red Hat - Gold Sponsor en en 20260505T131500 20260505T131700 000200 Red Hat - Gold Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/DF8PTL/ Ballroom PUBLISH DWHYZC@@talks.devopsdays.org -DWHYZC Perforce Puppet - Gold Sponsor en en 20260505T131700 20260505T131900 000200 Perforce Puppet - Gold Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/DWHYZC/ Ballroom PUBLISH MPKKXU@@talks.devopsdays.org -MPKKXU Campbell's Law applied to everything (in five minutes) en en 20260505T132000 20260505T132500 000500 Campbell's Law applied to everything (in five minutes) Measurements used for control purposes can corrupt systems especially when you are measuring peoples behavior and coupling those measurements with incentive structures. But there are multiple laws that parallel Campbell's Law, and derivatives of Campbell's Law as well. These span multiple fields of study. Here I'm going to push Campbell's law to the maximum and apply it to everything... PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/MPKKXU/ Ballroom Darren Carpenter PUBLISH 7GSL38@@talks.devopsdays.org -7GSL38 groundcover - Gold Sponsor en en 20260505T132500 20260505T132700 000200 groundcover - Gold Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/7GSL38/ Ballroom PUBLISH 7R7QKK@@talks.devopsdays.org -7R7QKK Port - Gold Sponsor en en 20260505T132700 20260505T132900 000200 Port - Gold Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/7R7QKK/ Ballroom PUBLISH BXP8RN@@talks.devopsdays.org -BXP8RN LGTM is NOT a Process en en 20260505T133000 20260505T133500 000500 LGTM is NOT a Process Ever approved a PR without fully understanding the change? Peer review is supposed to protect production. Too often, it becomes a formality, a box to check before merge, instead of a meaningful evaluation of the change. In this fast-paced Ignite session, you will learn 10 practical ways to redesign peer review as intentional friction in your delivery pipeline. The goal is not to eliminate friction, but to design it so it reduces risk, improves decisions, and strengthens your team without creating unnecessary pain. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/BXP8RN/ Ballroom David Boothe PUBLISH W7AGJS@@talks.devopsdays.org -W7AGJS Modicus Prime - Food Sponsor en en 20260505T133500 20260505T133700 000200 Modicus Prime - Food Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/W7AGJS/ Ballroom PUBLISH HVZUK7@@talks.devopsdays.org -HVZUK7 Texas State University - Community Sponsor en en 20260505T133700 20260505T133900 000200 Texas State University - Community Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/HVZUK7/ Ballroom PUBLISH 3P9ZBF@@talks.devopsdays.org -3P9ZBF Open Space Formation en en 20260505T140000 20260505T143000 003000 Open Space Formation PUBLIC CONFIRMED All Hands https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/3P9ZBF/ Ballroom PUBLISH XAVK3K@@talks.devopsdays.org -XAVK3K Pruning during a growth phase: lessions and techniques for optimizing cloud spend en en 20260505T144000 20260505T150000 002000 Pruning during a growth phase: lessions and techniques for optimizing cloud spend We're paying Professional Services a lot of money to give us generic and mostly useless advice as part of our Cloud Provider Annual Agreement. They say it so often my teammates and I have started making bingo cards for every meeting. If we could have done the simple things, we would have already. These are the solutions they sold your bosses on, but engineering doesn't think those are priorities. They have requirements from sales to increase footprint to enable that double-digit growth. Pushing everyone to a strictly controlled IAC where every request for new resources has to be approved instead of just spinning up only means you'll be even more over-provisioned "because the process is so slow". I'll talk about the ways to do effective cost collection, which is going to have a cost. The next level is analysis of that billing data to find you have places where you can turn off unused resources (as well as identifying bursty loads). Finally we'll talk about how to reset expectations with management so that you can still succeed while the number goes up... just not as quickly. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/XAVK3K/ Ballroom Carl Perry PUBLISH 3ES7WY@@talks.devopsdays.org -3ES7WY Open Space Day 1, Slot 1, Ballroom en en 20260505T151500 20260505T154500 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 1, Ballroom PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/3ES7WY/ Ballroom PUBLISH KTMNZ3@@talks.devopsdays.org -KTMNZ3 Open Space Day 1, Slot 2, Ballroom en en 20260505T160000 20260505T163000 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 2, Ballroom PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/KTMNZ3/ Ballroom PUBLISH RHLMSH@@talks.devopsdays.org -RHLMSH Open Space Day 1, Slot 3, Ballroom en en 20260505T164500 20260505T171500 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 3, Ballroom PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/RHLMSH/ Ballroom PUBLISH VNSNJM@@talks.devopsdays.org -VNSNJM Announcements and Day 1 Closing en en 20260505T172500 20260505T173000 000500 Announcements and Day 1 Closing PUBLIC CONFIRMED All Hands https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/VNSNJM/ Ballroom PUBLISH DDGZ7T@@talks.devopsdays.org -DDGZ7T Value All the Way Down: Applying DevOps Where CI/CD Assumptions Break en en 20260505T101500 20260505T103500 002000 Value All the Way Down: Applying DevOps Where CI/CD Assumptions Break High-Performance Compute (HPC) environments are expensive to operate in part because a sizeable chunk of engineer and compute time is "wasted" via failed jobs. Engineers submit long-running jobs, wait hours or days, and only then discover failures or unusable results. By that point, the data is stale, decisions are delayed, and compute and engineer time is lost. This talk is a real enterprise case study in applying a DevOps mindset to HPC by identifying and exploiting the true constraint: a reactive, instead of a proactive, feedback loop. We flipped the model from post-mortem analsysis to pre-submit validation and near real-time alerts so engineers could act with immediacy on timely, relevant data. The result was a measurable decrease in wasted compute and faster recovery time. Hundreds of thousands of compute hours preserved, tens of thousands of engineer hours saved, and millions of dollars annually avoided in wasted reruns and idle decision time. This talk is about how applying DevOps principles to the actual constraint, not the visible symptoms, allowed value to flow all the way down to the customer in an environment where DevOps may not even be part of the conversation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/DDGZ7T/ Inspiration A/B Borislav Sabotinov PUBLISH GELWU7@@talks.devopsdays.org -GELWU7 Why Git Still Matters en en 20260505T104500 20260505T110500 002000 Why Git Still Matters In this talk we will: * Take a brief look at the history of version control tools * Look at why Git was the clear leader * What tools make Git easier to use PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/GELWU7/ Inspiration A/B PJ Hagerty PUBLISH EKWE9A@@talks.devopsdays.org -EKWE9A Open Source Endpoint Telemetry Blueprint for Security Teams en en 20260505T111500 20260505T113500 002000 Open Source Endpoint Telemetry Blueprint for Security Teams PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/EKWE9A/ Inspiration A/B Victor Lyuboslavsky PUBLISH MF8AJH@@talks.devopsdays.org -MF8AJH Rollback-by-Design: Safe Infrastructure Migrations at Scale en en 20260505T144000 20260505T150000 002000 Rollback-by-Design: Safe Infrastructure Migrations at Scale ## Description Karpenter is a newer node autoscaler that promises faster scheduling and better cost efficiency. But this kind of migration touches everything: scheduling latency, scale-down behavior, and disruption semantics across every workload. Just one of our production clusters has thousands of nodes and hundreds of services, this meant unknown unknowns were inevitable. We needed two things: a way to collapse months of unknowns into days, and a rollout strategy where stopping felt as safe as continuing. **The approach:** First, explicit go/no-go criteria defined before starting, not discovered mid-rollout. The talk covers what those criteria looked like for an autoscaler migration, and how we got stakeholder alignment on "bail is a valid outcome." Second, staged learning: synthetic tests for behaviors we *knew* were problematic, staging to remove doubts, then a canary production cluster where all the real iteration happened. Within that cluster, we used a hand-picked batch of services chosen to surface different classes of problems fast. The talk walks through how we selected that batch, and what each category was designed to catch. Third, tiered rollout with explicit gates: expansion by service criticality, percentage-based phases, and dedicated alarms tied to our go/no-go signals. When thresholds crossed, on-call was notified and the decision to revert was obvious. **What we found:** Karpenter was supposed to be faster, but we found consolidation scenarios where it was actually *slower* than Cluster Autoscaler. We found workloads silently assuming pods would live "long enough." These weren't edge cases; they would have broken at scale. The selective batch surfaced these issues early, and we fixed them before the broader rollout even started. The talk covers these discoveries, how the batch selection strategy caught them, and what we did about them. **The result:** double-digit percentage reductions in idle costs, and a pattern we've since reused for other high-blast-radius migrations. ## Attendees Will Take Away - **Go/no-go criteria**: How to define must-haves and negotiables before starting—and get stakeholder alignment that "bail" is a valid outcome - **Canary batch selection**: How to pick services that surface different classes of problems fast (non-consequential baseline, critical services with aligned teams, intentional stressors) - **Gating signals**: Which metrics to watch (scheduling latency P99, sustained pending pods, service disruptions) and how to tie them to batch-specific alarms—so on-call isn't guessing, just responding PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/MF8AJH/ Inspiration A/B Abhinav Dahiya PUBLISH T9BNWZ@@talks.devopsdays.org -T9BNWZ Provisioning Infrastructure with Terraform en en 20260505T101500 20260505T114500 013000 Provisioning Infrastructure with Terraform The fundamental building block of modern infrastructure deployments is a strong basis of codification. In this hands-on workshop, geared towards operations engineers (DevOps, SRE, Platform), Kerim Satirli will take you from _Zero_ to _Managed_ with HashiCorp Terraform and a variety of different providers for Terraform. From understanding Terraform's core workflow to deploying and configuring local and remote infrastructure, this workshop is jam-packed with all the skills and techniques needed to effectively manage infrastructure as code, with Terraform. In this hands-on ninety minute session you can expect to learn: * How to manage infrastructure with Terraform * How to safely inject credentials into the process * How to think about scalability and governance Attendees will get access to a full environment to build along. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/T9BNWZ/ Transformation Kerim Satirli PUBLISH AXJ3D9@@talks.devopsdays.org -AXJ3D9 Open Space Day 1, Slot 1, Transformation en en 20260505T151500 20260505T154500 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 1, Transformation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/AXJ3D9/ Transformation PUBLISH F7TUYG@@talks.devopsdays.org -F7TUYG Open Space Day 1, Slot 2, Transformation en en 20260505T160000 20260505T163000 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 2, Transformation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/F7TUYG/ Transformation PUBLISH J7ZNFX@@talks.devopsdays.org -J7ZNFX Open Space Day 1, Slot 3, Transformation en en 20260505T164500 20260505T171500 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 3, Transformation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/J7ZNFX/ Transformation PUBLISH JLEYPH@@talks.devopsdays.org -JLEYPH Open Space Day 1, Slot 1, Dedication en en 20260505T151500 20260505T154500 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 1, Dedication PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/JLEYPH/ Dedication PUBLISH YFK99L@@talks.devopsdays.org -YFK99L Open Space Day 1, Slot 2, Dedication en en 20260505T160000 20260505T163000 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 2, Dedication PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/YFK99L/ Dedication PUBLISH NCPKYF@@talks.devopsdays.org -NCPKYF Open Space Day 1, Slot 3, Dedication en en 20260505T164500 20260505T171500 003000 Open Space Day 1, Slot 3, Dedication PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/NCPKYF/ Dedication PUBLISH BXDRFW@@talks.devopsdays.org -BXDRFW Day 2 Opening en en 20260506T090000 20260506T091000 001000 Day 2 Opening PUBLIC CONFIRMED All Hands https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/BXDRFW/ Ballroom PUBLISH 8DLNBP@@talks.devopsdays.org -8DLNBP Homelabs: Craftsmanship in the Age of Vibe-Coded Everything en en 20260506T091000 20260506T095500 004500 Homelabs: Craftsmanship in the Age of Vibe-Coded Everything This is a story-driven talk built around four stages of my homelab journey, each mapping to skills that matter in real DevOps and AI engineering work. **Networking**: Surveying router platforms from open source to prosumer to enterprise and picking something that made sense for home use. Then deciding to run OM-4 fiber through my house — which, honestly, was intimidating. Cutting into walls and fishing cable is a different kind of scary than a bad deploy. But I learned SFP/SFP+, how it compares to traditional copper, and how to securely access everything when I'm not home. Worth it. **Hardware**: Working with what you have (10+ year old desktop PCs) while intentionally designing a new media/storage server — GPU for local model inference, enough compute for self-hosted apps, and real storage architecture you never think about in a cloud-only world. We'll also be honest about cost — it's less than you think to get started! **"DevOps at home"**: How do you manage a homelab with real rigor without over-engineering it? Part of this is tool selection — NixOS vs Ansible vs Docker vs systemd, declarative vs traditional — but part of it is being honest about what you actually need at home versus what's appropriate for enterprise production. Not everything needs to be HA. Some things just need to work. **Self-hosted AI in practice**: A practical look at what I'm actually running and how it feeds into my day job at an AI startup. Local LLMs, self-hosted tooling, and owning your family's data rather than handing it to a dozen SaaS platforms. The goal isn't to show off a build, or what router I bought. It's super important for me to give listeners a framework to make intentional decisions to empower their learning, and inspire the confidence to start your own!! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/8DLNBP/ Ballroom Matthew Brahms PUBLISH 8VVTLK@@talks.devopsdays.org -8VVTLK Crash Override - Lanyard Sponsor en en 20260506T095500 20260506T095700 000200 Crash Override - Lanyard Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/8VVTLK/ Ballroom PUBLISH A3XEUA@@talks.devopsdays.org -A3XEUA Texas Mutual Insurance - Coffee Bar Sponsor en en 20260506T095700 20260506T095900 000200 Texas Mutual Insurance - Coffee Bar Sponsor PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/A3XEUA/ Ballroom PUBLISH WGC3XM@@talks.devopsdays.org -WGC3XM Modernizing Payment Platforms the DevOps Way en en 20260506T101000 20260506T103000 002000 Modernizing Payment Platforms the DevOps Way PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/WGC3XM/ Ballroom Shravani Gunturu PUBLISH N78MAJ@@talks.devopsdays.org -N78MAJ Securing the Software Factory en en 20260506T104000 20260506T110000 002000 Securing the Software Factory PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/N78MAJ/ Ballroom James Wickett PUBLISH 9ALL3R@@talks.devopsdays.org -9ALL3R Developer EQ: Mix and Master Your Social Game en en 20260506T111000 20260506T113000 002000 Developer EQ: Mix and Master Your Social Game 1. **Stems: The 4 Pillars** Your four clean, isolated tracks: Self-Awareness, Congruence, Resilience, Curiosity. Record them right or everything else sounds like garbage. 2. **Personal Brand: Crafting Your Signature Sound** Build the one sound people recognise instantly — your producer tag for real life. 3. **Count Theory: Rhythm, Cadence & Timing** Never miss the beat again. Master pauses, punchlines, entrances, and exits. 4. **Levels: Balancing Energy & Reading the Room** Stop clipping in meetings and stop getting buried in the mix. 5. **Filters: Stoicism as High-Pass / Low-Pass** Ruthlessly cut the mud and harshness from your life with the ultimate EQ preset. 6. **Compression: Empathy & Emotional Dynamics** Turn emotional spikes into glue that holds every relationship together. 7. **Volume: Presence, Confidence & When to Pull Back** Dial yourself from –∞ (ghost) to +3 dB (centre stage) and back — on purpose. 8. **Communication: Clarity, Reverb & Delay** Make every word hit clean, add warmth with stories, and land jokes with perfect delay. 9. **Social Rituality: Automation & Templates** Build once, run forever: handshakes, follow-ups, and goodbye loops that cost zero willpower. 10. **Scoreboard: Metrics That Actually Matter** Track your social mix like a pro: weekly KPIs, energy ROI, laughs-per-minute. 11. **Information: Sampling, Chopping & Arranging Social Data** Turn every conversation into reusable loops for your private sample pack. 12. **Kaizen: 1% Better Every Session** The Japanese art of endless small revisions that compounds into legendary charisma. 13. **Player to Coach: From Solo Producer to Label Owner** When your mix is mastered, start helping everyone else hit “export.” PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/9ALL3R/ Ballroom Kyle Shelton PUBLISH MCQYNR@@talks.devopsdays.org -MCQYNR Typing was never the hard part en en 20260506T114000 20260506T120000 002000 Typing was never the hard part PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/MCQYNR/ Ballroom Ian Littman PUBLISH ZZ9UPS@@talks.devopsdays.org -ZZ9UPS Most AI Slop Is a Workflow Failure, Not a Model Failure en en 20260506T130000 20260506T130500 000500 Most AI Slop Is a Workflow Failure, Not a Model Failure This talk will open with a simple compare-and-contrast: how teams commonly use AI today and where slop shows up, versus how small workflow changes can produce materially better outcomes. I am not trying to cram a full implementation tutorial into five minutes. The goal is to give people a practical lens they can apply immediately: define outcomes before prompting, break work into clearer stages, tighten handoffs, and add lightweight verification before accepting output. The core argument is that weak AI output is usually not proof that the model failed, it is usually a workflow design issue. Attendees should leave with a few concrete workflow adjustments they can test right away to improve quality and reduce rework. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/ZZ9UPS/ Ballroom Patrick Robinson PUBLISH ZPRHEA@@talks.devopsdays.org -ZPRHEA When Kubernetes Gets Noisy: What Anomaly Detection Gets Right en en 20260506T131000 20260506T131500 000500 When Kubernetes Gets Noisy: What Anomaly Detection Gets Right This talk describes a small personal experiment combining chaos engineering and anomaly detection in Kubernetes. I instrumented a lightweight cluster with OpenTelemetry and used ChaosMesh to inject controlled failures such as pod deletions, CPU and memory stress, network latency, DNS failures, and forced autoscaling bursts. These failures reflect issues many teams see in real production environments. Next, I looked at the data coming from the cluster and used simple statistical techniques for anomaly detection to see what stood out as unusual. Some methods detected real issues quickly. Others raised alerts even when nothing was actually wrong. By comparing what the system flagged as anomalies with what was actually happening in the cluster, I was able to see where anomaly detection was genuinely helpful and where it failed without proper context. The talk shows that anomaly detection can be useful but only when combined with good observability practices and human understanding of system behavior. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/ZPRHEA/ Ballroom Spoorthi Palakshaiah PUBLISH WTDBJE@@talks.devopsdays.org -WTDBJE Why Developer Portals Matter en en 20260506T132000 20260506T132500 000500 Why Developer Portals Matter Many teams have mature DevOps practices but still struggle with discoverability and usability. Engineers need to understand services, environments, deployment workflows, and infrastructure, yet this information is often spread across multiple systems. Developer portals such as Backstage or Port help by acting as a unified interface to DevOps tooling. They expose service catalogs, ownership, documentation, and self-service workflows in a way that makes existing automation easier to use. This talk explores why developer portals are becoming a key part of modern DevOps environments and how they help teams deliver value more consistently. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/WTDBJE/ Ballroom German Martinez PUBLISH SKFPU9@@talks.devopsdays.org -SKFPU9 Zero Trust from Day Zero en en 20260506T133000 20260506T133500 000500 Zero Trust from Day Zero PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/SKFPU9/ Ballroom Mya Jaye PUBLISH MXVCPL@@talks.devopsdays.org -MXVCPL Open Space Formation en en 20260506T140000 20260506T142000 002000 Open Space Formation PUBLIC CONFIRMED All Hands https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/MXVCPL/ Ballroom PUBLISH JDWETC@@talks.devopsdays.org -JDWETC Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Ballroom en en 20260506T143000 20260506T150000 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Ballroom PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/JDWETC/ Ballroom PUBLISH 3DWG3J@@talks.devopsdays.org -3DWG3J Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Ballroom en en 20260506T151500 20260506T154500 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Ballroom PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/3DWG3J/ Ballroom PUBLISH PLJXFE@@talks.devopsdays.org -PLJXFE Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Ballroom en en 20260506T155500 20260506T162500 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Ballroom PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/PLJXFE/ Ballroom PUBLISH WN9MY7@@talks.devopsdays.org -WN9MY7 Closing Ceremonies and Raffles en en 20260506T163500 20260506T170000 002500 Closing Ceremonies and Raffles PUBLIC CONFIRMED All Hands https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/WN9MY7/ Ballroom PUBLISH WZEVJQ@@talks.devopsdays.org -WZEVJQ The Science of On-Call Burnout: Why "How Are You Doing?" Always Gets "Fine" en en 20260506T101000 20260506T103000 002000 The Science of On-Call Burnout: Why "How Are You Doing?" Always Gets "Fine" This talk explores why traditional methods of detecting burnout fail, and what actually works. I'll start with the science: Maslach's burnout model (exhaustion, cynicism, inefficacy) and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory explain how burnout accumulates over time. On-call engineers are uniquely vulnerable due to unpredictability, sleep disruption, and lack of control. Then I'll address the elephant in the room: when you ask "how are you doing?" in a 1:1, you almost always get "fine." Social desirability bias, fear of appearing weak, heroism culture, and normalization all conspire to hide the truth until it's too late. The core of the talk translates burnout research into observable on-call signals: after-hours page frequency, consecutive on-call days, incident severity exposure, and the critical insight that the same load affects people differently based on their baseline. I'll demonstrate these concepts using On-Call Health (open-source, https://github.com/Rootly-AI-Labs/On-Call-Health), showing how to combine observed data with optional self-reported check-ins to catch problems early. Attendees leave with a practical framework: what to track, how to have real conversations with data, and how to make rotation decisions they can defend to leadership. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/WZEVJQ/ Inspiration A/B Sylvain Kalache PUBLISH LUAXC3@@talks.devopsdays.org -LUAXC3 You Are the Micro-CTO: Managing Your Team to Effectiveness en en 20260506T104000 20260506T110000 002000 You Are the Micro-CTO: Managing Your Team to Effectiveness PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/LUAXC3/ Inspiration A/B Francisco Trindade PUBLISH AFX9ZH@@talks.devopsdays.org -AFX9ZH Ship It First, Fix It Later: How a Medical Crisis Led to a Global Tool en en 20260506T111000 20260506T113000 002000 Ship It First, Fix It Later: How a Medical Crisis Led to a Global Tool PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/AFX9ZH/ Inspiration A/B RoxyRodbeck PUBLISH W99FP3@@talks.devopsdays.org -W99FP3 From Rollouts to Results: How Platform Engineering Removed Bottlenecks in Value Delivery en en 20260506T114000 20260506T120000 002000 From Rollouts to Results: How Platform Engineering Removed Bottlenecks in Value Delivery Platform teams are often successful at stability, but delivery speed is where value becomes visible. In this talk, I’ll share how our platform engineering team identified and removed the hidden bottlenecks that slowed delivery, transforming deployments from a slow, manual process into a fast, reliable, and confidence-driven workflow. You’ll hear a real-world story of how we moved from imperative, CLI-driven deployments to a declarative, GitOps-based platform, reduced rollout times from ~20 minutes to just a few minutes, and improved trust in change across teams. Along the way, I’ll cover what worked, what took longer than expected, and what didn’t improve at all. This talk is for anyone building or operating internal platforms who wants to understand how platform decisions affect real-world value delivery, not just uptime. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Presentation https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/W99FP3/ Inspiration A/B Ajo Augustine PUBLISH 7WTCWJ@@talks.devopsdays.org -7WTCWJ Darts in the Dark en en 20260506T101000 20260506T114000 013000 Darts in the Dark PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/7WTCWJ/ Transformation Noe Lorona PUBLISH 9X3VRP@@talks.devopsdays.org -9X3VRP Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Transformation en en 20260506T143000 20260506T150000 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Transformation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/9X3VRP/ Transformation PUBLISH JXGR8N@@talks.devopsdays.org -JXGR8N Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Transformation en en 20260506T151500 20260506T154500 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Transformation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/JXGR8N/ Transformation PUBLISH CAKFXE@@talks.devopsdays.org -CAKFXE Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Transformation en en 20260506T155500 20260506T162500 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Transformation PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/CAKFXE/ Transformation PUBLISH JZW9EZ@@talks.devopsdays.org -JZW9EZ Startup Huddle Presentations en en 20260506T120000 20260506T130000 010000 Startup Huddle Presentations PUBLIC CONFIRMED Sponsor Pitch https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/JZW9EZ/ Dedication PUBLISH 8D3CTR@@talks.devopsdays.org -8D3CTR Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Dedication en en 20260506T143000 20260506T150000 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 1, Dedication PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/8D3CTR/ Dedication PUBLISH 7KF7LK@@talks.devopsdays.org -7KF7LK Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Dedication en en 20260506T151500 20260506T154500 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 2, Dedication PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/7KF7LK/ Dedication PUBLISH HJMEYV@@talks.devopsdays.org -HJMEYV Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Dedication en en 20260506T155500 20260506T162500 003000 Open Space Day 2, Slot 3, Dedication PUBLIC CONFIRMED Open Space https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-austin-2026/talk/HJMEYV/ Dedication