2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH KDGRFH@@talks.devopsdays.org -KDGRFH Cybersecurity Meets AI: Roadmap for Next Gen Skills en en 20250930T090500 20250930T093500 003000

Cybersecurity Meets AI: Roadmap for Next Gen Skills

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/KDGRFH/ Room 1 Brian M. Green PUBLISH 7VCBVN@@talks.devopsdays.org -7VCBVN From IaC to IDP: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Maturity en en 20250930T093500 20250930T100500 003000

From IaC to IDP: A Practical Guide to Self-Service Maturity

This talk gives a practical framework for thinking about self-service maturity and platform architecture. I’ll describe three common models of self-service: 1. “IaC factory” where the platform team implements all infra, 2. "templates and modules" model where app teams consume reusable code 3. A fully realized internal developer platform (IDP) where dev teams provision via low-code/no-code UI or CLI. I’ll help attendees assess which model fits their org based on team maturity, scope, and culture. The second half of the talk will break down the key layers that commonly make up a modern platform: foundational infrastructure (e.g. account vending), shared services (e.g. VPCs, clusters), workload enablement, and developer experience. I’ll also touch on how these layers map back to the three maturity model - and how platform teams can avoid building features no one will use by setting realistic expectations and measuring adoption early. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/7VCBVN/ Room 1 Josh Kodroff PUBLISH BU73EQ@@talks.devopsdays.org -BU73EQ I'm A Machine, And You Should Trust Me: The Future Of Non-Human Identity en en 20250930T100500 20250930T103500 003000

I'm A Machine, And You Should Trust Me: The Future Of Non-Human Identity

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/BU73EQ/ Room 1 Dwayne McDaniel PUBLISH EJERTJ@@talks.devopsdays.org -EJERTJ Supercharge your Git workflows en en 20250930T104500 20250930T111500 003000

Supercharge your Git workflows

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/EJERTJ/ Room 1 Darwin Sanoy PUBLISH N33CVD@@talks.devopsdays.org -N33CVD Surviving a High-Stakes $40M Federal Live Code Challenge en en 20250930T111500 20250930T114500 003000

Surviving a High-Stakes $40M Federal Live Code Challenge

Join us for immediate, practical steps your teams can implement, drawn directly from our experience competing in a real-time development challenge vying for a $40 million contract with the Department of Treasury. This isn't theoretical; it's a raw, honest look at real-world challenges. We'll delve into the critical, sometimes painful, lessons learned about DevOps principles and Agile anti-patterns that surfaced under fire: • Why Continuous Integration from Day One isn't just best practice—it's a survival mechanism. We'll share our practice run panic and how targeting the "perfect CI pipeline" nearly derailed us. • How to establish an effective customer surrogate when direct stakeholder collaboration is impossible, and why their early feedback is non-negotiable, even in a challenge scenario. • The unexpected payoff of a production-ready mindset in a demo environment, and how small efforts can save your project during a live presentation. • Navigating the tricky balance of tooling choice and team familiarity: When powerful tools become bottlenecks, and why a gelled team outperforms a collection of individual experts. • The often-overlooked secret weapon: realistic team availability. Discover how managing after-hours expectations impacts velocity and team morale. This talk offers concrete, actionable takeaways for anyone navigating complex software development on a laughably short timeframe, whether you're competing for a new contract or launching your startup MVP. We’ll share the "aha!" moments and the pitfalls, providing practical pro-tips to help you succeed in your next race to release 1.0. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/N33CVD/ Room 1 Al Crowley PUBLISH KSCGYQ@@talks.devopsdays.org -KSCGYQ Finding what’s important: Actionable, Automated and Accurate Alerting en en 20250930T114500 20250930T121500 003000

Finding what’s important: Actionable, Automated and Accurate Alerting

As more teams move to microservices and managed systems, the number of ephemeral systems and resources explodes. With those new systems come new monitors, new alerts, and new middle-of-the-night pages. And that means wasted time and attention. Join us as we walk through ways to improve the automation of parsing and filtering alerts, and create intelligent systems that can suggest, or even take, action for you when alerts come in. Finally, we will all have more time to relax and enjoy the fruits of our labors. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/KSCGYQ/ Room 1 Max Saltonstall Kennedy Toomey PUBLISH DQLKAT@@talks.devopsdays.org -DQLKAT Ablative Resilience en en 20250930T133000 20250930T134500 001500

Ablative Resilience

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/DQLKAT/ Room 1 Damion Waltermeyer PUBLISH EXKQMY@@talks.devopsdays.org -EXKQMY Secure Coding: Automate secret management and security scanning en en 20250930T134500 20250930T140000 001500

Secure Coding: Automate secret management and security scanning

In this session we will cover: - How to automate the scanning of secrets and sensitive phrases in the code. - Solution to manage the secrets securely. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/EXKQMY/ Room 1 Ankur Bansal EHFAJ KHAN PUBLISH CEMMCM@@talks.devopsdays.org -CEMMCM Small Batch Delivery: Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference en en 20250930T140000 20250930T141500 001500

Small Batch Delivery: Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference

In the fast-moving world of software delivery, it’s tempting to pack as much as possible into every release. But here’s the truth: smaller is safer, faster, and smarter. This Ignite talk makes the case for Small Batch Delivery—a practice that reduces risk, accelerates feedback loops, and makes pull request reviews a breeze. We’ll explore how small, focused changes keep your team in flow, why bloated PRs are a silent productivity killer, and how reviewing quickly reinforces the very habit of shipping small. You'll also learn what happens when we don’t keep batch sizes small (spoiler: it’s not great). If you've ever stared down a massive pull request with dread or wished your changes shipped faster, this talk is for you. Small batches aren't just a technical strategy—they’re a cultural shift. And they just might be your team’s superpower. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/CEMMCM/ Room 1 Scott Howard PUBLISH V3QTQR@@talks.devopsdays.org -V3QTQR DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs) en en 20250930T141500 20250930T143000 001500

DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/V3QTQR/ Room 1 Josh Lee PUBLISH ABEQSF@@talks.devopsdays.org -ABEQSF Strategic Directions in DevOps : AI, DevSecOps and GitOps en en 20251001T090500 20251001T093500 003000

Strategic Directions in DevOps : AI, DevSecOps and GitOps

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/ABEQSF/ Room 1 Eric Snyder PUBLISH CFDW38@@talks.devopsdays.org -CFDW38 Talk SQL to Me: Building a Smarter Query Assistant en en 20251001T093500 20251001T095000 001500

Talk SQL to Me: Building a Smarter Query Assistant

Off-the-shelf AI tools are capable of automating text-to-SQL conversion, but many of these solutions are "black boxes" with serious practical limitations like hallucinations, expensive licensing, lack of customizations to company requirements and limited explainability. By sharing a fully open, explainable approach to Text-to-SQL, this talk is about keeping AI innovation open, collaborative, and community-driven. This session will: > Empower users to build their own AI-powered analytics tools instead of relying on expensive, proprietary software. > Encourage open-source contributions by showcasing how tools like DsPy, LangChain, PostgreSQL, and SQLParse can be combined to create a transparent, community-driven solution. > Foster AI accessibility so that researchers, engineers, and organizations of any size can leverage Generative AI for structured data without compromising on control, security, or cost. This talk is uniquely relevant to DevOpsDays because it blends: > Self-service analytics (freeing up engineers & data teams from query tickets) > Developer experience (turning LLMs into productive teammates, not flaky oracles) > Open tooling (LangChain, SQLParse, DsPy, Streamlit) to create a transparent system you can fork, debug, and improve without vendor lock-in. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/CFDW38/ Room 1 Gamini Singh PUBLISH CCDLLM@@talks.devopsdays.org -CCDLLM Is your investment in AI paying off... or just generating more sh*tposts? en en 20251001T095000 20251001T100500 001500

Is your investment in AI paying off... or just generating more sh*tposts?

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/CCDLLM/ Room 1 Michael A Stahnke PUBLISH U9WUSE@@talks.devopsdays.org -U9WUSE From YouTube Analytics To Search Patterns That Scale en en 20251001T100500 20251001T102000 001500

From YouTube Analytics To Search Patterns That Scale

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/U9WUSE/ Room 1 Walt Ribeiro PUBLISH WKVGCP@@talks.devopsdays.org -WKVGCP The Case for User-focused Observability en en 20251001T110500 20251001T113500 003000

The Case for User-focused Observability

As software has become more complex, observability into its processes has been key. But the reason for this observability might have been lost. Observability hasn’t focused on intention: what people are trying to do with the system. While product analytics might give a broad sense of “what happened,” making sense of telemetry pointing to “what went wrong” is key to improving the system. For users, the specific issue doesn’t matter, because the software doesn’t work! If a user can’t log in to their web portal for medical records due to a failing backend service, or because the modules are too old to load on contemporary browsers, or one of any other technical factors, the engineering team has failed in their relationship to the user. It might appear as an error or crash or failure to load, but to someone who intends to check on their blood tests, it’s simple frustration. In the world of browsers and mobile devices, technical issues prevent the success of the system. This success should be the goal for the entire engineering team: after all, if an API delivers a payload that the client can’t use, it has failed the user. An examination of the system that points to the user, with telemetry from all technical parts of that system, is the only way forward. That is user-focused observability. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/WKVGCP/ Room 1 David Rifkin PUBLISH TCKB8U@@talks.devopsdays.org -TCKB8U Workshop: Building AI Agents for AWS Infrastructure Automation en en 20251001T130000 20251001T140000 010000

Workshop: Building AI Agents for AWS Infrastructure Automation

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/TCKB8U/ Room 1 Anuj Tyagi PUBLISH BL88PN@@talks.devopsdays.org -BL88PN What the Makefile got right (49 years later) en en 20251001T140000 20251001T141500 001500

What the Makefile got right (49 years later)

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/BL88PN/ Room 1 Benjie De Groot PUBLISH FQWY3M@@talks.devopsdays.org -FQWY3M Breaking GitOps Bottlenecks: The Power of Sharding en en 20251001T141500 20251001T143000 001500

Breaking GitOps Bottlenecks: The Power of Sharding

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-philadelphia-2025/talk/FQWY3M/ Room 1 Anuj Tyagi