Turbocharge your kubernetes cluster with Operators

Kubernetes is all the rage, the cloud native platform, winner of the orchestrator wars. But there are even more capabilities and hidden power within it as an extensible platform. Enter custom resources and the kubernetes operator.

This talk will explain what kubernetes operators are, what kind of problems they solve, what capabilities they create for in-house development and facing operations challenges.
Some code concepts and examples will be discussed.

Let pod sort them out! anti-disaster pod scheduling

So, kubernetes is an orchestrator, right?
And orchestration is about scheduling. Simple.
Or is it?

This talk dives deep into just how complex kubernetes scheduling and scaling can get, exploring topology-aware scheduling, custom schedulers, priority classes and more

Presented in AllDayDevOps 2023

Fast, not furious - Keeping developer velocity and efficiency in challenging environments.

Sometimes you check in your new feature, it rolls smoothly into production and you’re as happy as a clam.
But sometimes you just can’t get your feature into production, banging your head against the wall in frustration.
Yet sometimes still, you wish that bug hadn’t made it into production, muttering as your colleague from support gets an earful on the phone.

ALM, CI/CD, testing and operations are all part of what makes developers efficient and fast. And yet, developing an entertainment app will obviously be faster than developing software for a nuclear reactor - for good reasons.
What makes the entertainment app fast to develop for? What makes the nuclear reactor software so hard and slow?
We will analyze the differences and compare the challenges as they ramp up across the spectrum of projects between these two.

Following this session, you should have an improved understanding of, and a toolbox to improve upon, developer velocity. You should have a better idea on what makes it easier or harder to achieve and what may work when facing a challenging environment.

Presented at AllDayDevOps 2022

How fanfiction made me a better engineer

In 2018, I was introduced to the dazzling and diverse world of fanfiction –– a hidden-in-plain-sight world of alternative LGBTQ and feminine narratives to mainstream media.

A year and a half later, with roughly 60,000 words written, I came out of the closet –– now aware of my true gender identity.

It took me a while to notice it, but fanfiction itself –– and not just gender transition –– has found its way into my day-to-day engineering conduct:

It changed the way I appreciate and review code.
It changed the way I use ticketing and bug reporting systems.
It changed the way I write my documents with colleagues.
It's a good idea to take a page, or at least a handful of paragraphs, from the diversity of that unique world that fanfiction has to offer.

First presented at LesbiansWhoTech debug summit 2021
Presented at AllDayDevOps 2022

DevOps 101 for non-DevOps

Ever heard the term "devops" and scratched your head for a moment as to what it truly means?
Want to understand some of what's going behind the hood of accelerating software development?
Got a question but you don't want to wait for your ticket during office hours (14:45 to a quarter to three)?

This DevOps 101 talk will introduce you to the history behind the term / movement, some key ideas in modern devops thought and a selection of popular tools (at the time of writing) and how they implement those ideas, making software development a "before devops" and "after devops" affair.

First presented at LeadWith babies Jan 2023
Presented at WoS global conference Nov 2023

The Jenkins from Hell - How to Save an Unorganized CI/CD Infrastructure

What happens when you let your CI/CD infrastructure fallow for several years?
Enter - the Jenkins from hell. a mess that is almost impossible to upgrade and modernize.
With the right treatment though, even the Jenkins from hell could be made to bloom again

Presented in geektime code 2023

What's burning through your cloud bill

Recent years have exposed startups to a major plague - cloud overspend. No vaccine appears to exist, plethora of tools and consultants fail to stop the bleeding. And yet, some companies manage to stay safe. What makes them different? Is it the tools? Is it the mindset? Is it developer training? In this session we will examine the cultural factors involved in sound and responsible financial management in the cloud. We will also look at relevant system design elements and product design elements which enable us to spend wisely while our business runs smoothly. Following this session, you should be better versed in cost-aware system design and some of the cultural and structural requirements to keeping your cloud bill low.

Presented in DevOpsDays TLV 2021

Email – a transaction by any other name

This lightning talk will discuss how emails differ and how they relate to other types of transactions. We will dispel a few myths regarding how email placement operates and learn what we can do to monitor delivery and assure quality of service, as with any other transaction type.

Presented in DevOpsDays TLV 2019