Lee Briggs
Solutions Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Lee Briggs is a Solutions Engineer at Pulumi. With almost 10 years of experience designing, building and maintaining distributed and complex systems, he wears the scars of many deployment tools. When he's not telling engineers that DSLs are a waste of time, he enjoys playing and watching Soccer and rescuing racing greyhounds
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Rethinking the user experience of infrastructure automation
Automating repetitive tasks is often at the core of a technical person's job satisfaction and years ago, a class of software appeared that attempted to solve the problem of infrastructure automation.
The tools and products that were developed to solve this problem often had a similar user experience. Focused primarily on a command-line experience, they appealed quickly to systems-focused technical users and saw their adoption explode.
As organizations have embraced cloud engineering, new classes of users need infrastructure automation that might not have embraced command line or CI/CD workflows to achieve their goals.
In this session, we'll examine how a class of tooling was born, and take a look at the user experience from a variety of different perspectives. Finally, we'll take a look at other ways we might automate infrastructure with the goal of finally democratizing the cloud native experience.
Infrastructure as Software
Building an effective engineering organisation usually means Operations (the people managing the infrastructure) and Developers (those consuming it) need to be on the same page. DevOps as a discipline is of course designed to solve that, but there are big gaps in the tooling that developers and operations use, keeping those pesky silos in place.
What if we started treating the infrastructure that forms the core of our applications as software too? How would that change affect the culture, velocity and architecture we build?
In this talk, we'll take a high-level look at how infrastructure management has evolved, examine some insights from both sides of the DevOps divide and look at how your organisation could look if you want to create an infrastructure platform that was itself software and built for the users you're supporting
Choosing an Infrastructure as Code Tool in 2022
Since infrastructure as code burst onto the scene alongside the DevOps movement, the players in the game have changed dramatically.
If you were to choose an infrastructure as code tool in 2022, you'd have more choices than ever before. So how do you choose between them? In this talk, we'll take a look at the available tools not through the laundry list of features each tool offers, but what the user experience of those tools looks like not just to you, but to your customers and your colleagues.
How not to build a platform
Kubernetes is often styled as a building block for internal platforms, and adopting Kubernetes can be the first step to rethinking the way your organisation delivers infrastructure and applications to streamline application development.
It is however very easy to get this wrong. Implementing the wrong ideas on the road to building your platform can often have the opposite effect: complicated, unreliable application delivery that frustrates developers and increases your workload.
In this talk, we'll take the lessons learned from working with thousands of customers at Pulumi as they seek to build developer platforms and look at what not to do when building platforms built on Kubernetes
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