René van Osnabrugge
Chief Consulting Excellence @ Xebia
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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As CCE of Xebia Microsoft Services, Rene enables consultants to help organizations and leadership teams to build an engineering culture that allows them to build, deliver, and operate software in a secure and compliant way. With a focus on both the technical and cultural aspects of a company, Rene helps clients transform their work processes, operating model, and culture to become high-speed, innovative, and productive.
Rene is passionate about learning new technologies and exploring the cultural and people aspects of companies. He believes that by focusing on both technical implementation and cultural development, we can drive our industry forward. He loves sharing his knowledge and insights at conferences and training events.
As a frequently asked speaker at well-known industry events like GitHub Universe, NDC, Techorama, AllDayDevOps, NDC, and Visual Studio Live!, Rene is known for his expertise in Microsoft Azure, DevOps and DevOps Culture. In addition to being a Microsoft MVP since 2012, he is also the founder of the popular community event Global DevOps Bootcamp.
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The Fin-tastic Way to Boost Your Cloud ROI: An Introduction to FinOps on Azure
Are you tired of overspending on cloud costs? Want to optimize your Azure spending and boost your ROI? Look no further than FinOps! In this session, we'll dive into the basics of FinOps and why it's becoming increasingly important for organizations of all sizes. We'll also explore the specific tools and features available on the Azure platform that can help you implement FinOps successfully, including cost management, budgeting, and optimization tools.
Whether you're new to FinOps or have experience in the field, this session will provide valuable insights and practical tips for maximizing your cloud savings. So join me in this session and learn how to become a FinOps pro on Azure!
Monolith Makeover: Creating a business case to revitalize an old application
Are you tired of dealing with a legacy monolith that's slowing you down? Are you considering a migration to a more modern system but not sure where to start? Look no further! In this session, we'll explore the key considerations and challenges involved in migrating a 20 year old monolith, including technical and business case perspectives. I'll also provide practical tips and best practices for success, including how to approach the migration process, how to minimize disruption, and how to ensure a smooth transition.
Whether you're just starting to think about migration or are well into the process, this session will provide valuable insights and actionable guidance. So join me and learn how to modernize your system and take your organization to the next level!
Mind Matters: The Importance of Cultivating a DevOps Mindset
While hard skills like continuous delivery and automated testing are important for practicing DevOps successfully, they are not the only factors that determine success. In many cases, people's mindset and willingness to embrace new practices and tools can also play a critical role. Fear of failure, fear of speaking up, motivation, and drive are all factors that can impact a team's ability to practice DevOps effectively.
In this session, we'll explore the concept of a DevOps mindset and how to cultivate it within yourself and your team. We'll discuss how to recognize fears and counter-productive behavior, and provide tips and insights on how to foster a culture of courage, teamwork, DevOps leadership, and continuous improvement. Join me and learn how to cultivate a DevOps mindset that drives success!
Embrace chaos to achieve stability
What do you do in case of a cyber attack? And a natural disaster? The absence of a person? Or, more concrete. What happens if the network is down, your data center is not available, your VM's cannot spin up, you get the DDOSed or your website becomes a success overnight?
Usually we cater for a number of scenarios, but do we actually test them and can we actually find out what happens when doomsday shows up?
Chaos engineering is a practice that can help you to prepare for these scenario and be ready when you need to be. In this session I will talk you through the principles of chaos engineering and explain why this could benefits you and your company.
With some demos I can also show you some tools that can help you to overcome this crisis.
Culture Club: Building a Strong Engineering Culture from the Ground Up
Every company is essentially a software company in today's digital world. However, building and delivering great software is not enough to ensure success. To truly thrive in the world of software, companies must embrace an engineering culture that goes beyond technical solutions and touches upon the deeper causes of organizational success.
In this session, we'll explore the 8 pillars of an engineering culture and show you how to build and nurture one that drives business success. From state of the art software and smooth delivery, to appropriate continuity and the power of platforms, we'll cover the key elements that make up an engineering culture. We'll also delve into the importance of an empowering operating model, moving beyond traditional IT, and leadership in building a successful engineering culture.
Join me in this session and learn how to build and nurture an engineering culture that drives business success!
CodeToCloud with GitHub - Hands-on Workshop
This workshop focuses on the Code to Cloud journey. The journey includes the integration with Azure Boards, working with GitHub Codespaces, the GitHub Flow, and the GitHub Container Registry. Students will learn to use docker and docker-compose and deploy their solution to an Azure Web App using GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps pipelines.
To make it challenging for the students, the workshop contains challenges that can also be done individually. To make sure students do not get stuck, there are scripts available with instructions to "automatically" fix a challenge, so students can continue. The workshop also contains extensive Step-By-Step videos and written instructions. There are also videos that explain the concepts that are used in the exercises.
We will cover the following modules:
Module 1: improving the Developer Workflow
Module 2 - Moving to the Cloud
Module 3 - Closing the Feedback Loop
Rebuild or Refactor? That is the question!
Sooner or later, you will encounter the question: Rebuild or Refactor? Software that has been in use for several years will inevitably cause issues. Maybe the software is hard to maintain, or perhaps it is difficult to add new features, which slows down development. Your development teams might spend more time fixing issues than adding new features, making changes both hard and expensive. Developers may suggest starting over because the software is unmaintainable, while the business pushes back to maintain velocity.
Regardless of the reason, the question will arise: Should we rebuild the software? How long will it take? And how much will it cost?
These are important and seemingly straightforward questions, but the answers are not always simple or concrete. There is more to consider than just time and resources.
In this session, we will explore this question in more detail. We will discuss some challenges and considerations involved in making the business decision to rebuild or refactor an application. Furthermore, we will explore how to proceed once the decision has been made.
Security in your pipelines. The shift to Rugged DevOps
Putting Developers and IT-Pros in one team does not make it a DevOps team. And even when they work smoothly together there is always Security that needs to be addressed. Build and Release Pipelines take care of building and deploying your application, but are your pipelines secure? And the code that you are deploying? With many releases a day, security officers will not be able to verify each release. Rugged DevOps is all about securing your assets and your pipeline and really embed Security in to your DevOps process.
In this talk I will guide you through the concepts of Rugged DevOps, the risks companies are currently facing and talk about some strategies and tools which can help you embed security in to your DevOps processes.
Growing your DevOps mindset
Practicing DevOps successfully requires knowledge of hard skill areas such as continuous delivery and automated testing. But even if you have all these tools in place, you are not necessarily successful. And why is that?
In most cases, the people are not in the right "state" or mindset, to actually use these new practices and tools. Fear of failure, of speaking up, motivation and drive are all factors that play an important role.
Creating a culture where people show courage, work on team building, practice DevOps leadership and have a continuous improvement mindset is hard but extremely important.
In this session, I will talk about what a DevOps MindSet. How to recognize fears and counter-productive behavior and give you some tips and insights on how to start growing a DevOps Mindset for yourself and your colleagues.
When "We are down" is not good enough. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Azure
The more we are connected and the more others are connected to us, the more important reliability of your sites becomes.
Site Reliability Engineering is an engineering discipline devoted to helping an organization sustainably achieve the appropriate level of reliability in their systems, services, and products. But what does this mean, and how do get started with this?
In this session I will talk about the concepts of Site Reliability Engineering and use Microsoft Azure to implement some of the concepts and practices
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