Identifying security vulnerabilities earlier using DevOps and Opensource tools

Do your teams execute security tests before shipping software to production? Have your teams discovered a security flaw and had to delay a release to get the problem fixed? We’ve all been there at some point. In this session, we shall discuss ways to bring security checks closer to developers and help the teams identify security vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle, fix them, and ship secure software to your customers faster. We shall review the different security vulnerabilities that could happen and demonstrate ways to identify them via Azure DevOps, SonarQube, and tooling from the OWASP foundation such as Dependency Check and Owasp Zap.

Bringing a multicultural team together

Have you ever started a cross-functional team? I’m sure you know that this comes with some challenges. That’s because we are all different and we all communicate in different styles and have different expectations based on our role, culture, and other criteria. Now imagine starting a cross-functional team coming from different parts of the world from different companies, roles, native language, and culture. Looks challenging right? On top of that, now think what impact COVID-19 could have had on this team when some team members had to move to their home country and thus transforming the team from being co-located to being distributed! That’s exactly what this session is about.

During this session, we’ll go through the journey of starting a cross-functional team adopting agile practices in a large traditional organization. Throughout the journey, we’ll look at the different challenges the team faced and the experiments we carried out to solve those issues.

We are going to go back to the basics. I will show you how simple experiments and improvement items can lead to high impact and help to build a high performing team throughout the months.

Achieving Zero Downtime Deployment in Business Critical Applications

Embark on a journey of insights as the process of implementing zerodowntime deployment in the dynamic realm of banking applications is discussed. With millions of logins daily, substantial challenges were encountered, but commensurate rewards were achieved.

In this session, the adoption of Kubernetes will be explored, playing a pivotal role in the quest for seamless deployment. Experiences will be shared, delving into the hurdles faced, and lessons learned from several failed attempts that ultimately led to success.

Through a real-world case study, the transformative impact on the work-life balance of software engineers and the substantial improvement in customer experience for millions of users will be showcased. The approach taken will be detailed, illustrating how maintenance and bug fixes during peak usage were facilitated, while also elevating overall system resilience.

A case study of implementing zero downtime deploy in banking applications. This included step by step live demo of configuring kubernetes on azure while firing jmeter load test to validate the test results.