Richard Boyd II
Technical Principal, Liatrio
Austin, Texas, United States
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I help enterprises become successful by adopting DevOps practices. In my spare time I'm an organizer for DevOpsDays Austin, ServerlessDays Austin, DevOpsDays Texas, the Austin AWS Users Meetup, and the Cloud Austin Meetup. When I'm not working or organizing you can catch me hiking around Austin and checking out our many local brewereies.
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The Well-Architected Way
The Well-Architected Framework is how we build things at Amazon. Based on time-tested best practices, the Well-Architected Framework enables anyone to build scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant architectures.
Spacetime Management: Lessons from the Stoics
Are you struggling to get yourself organized? Can't seem to find time to work no those backlog items? The Stoics were an ancient Greek school of philosophy that are still relevant today. In this lightning talk I'll give you a few Stoic tools that you can use to get yourself organized and motivated.
Game Days are Not About Sportsball
Ever heard of a Game Day? Hint: it's NOT what happens on Sunday during Football Season. Game Days are when you want to verify that your Runbooks and Playbooks work as intended but you don't want to break everything to do it. Teams simulate events to validate that things work the way they should and, if not, fix the process before the real thing happens. In this talk you'll learn about how to setup, run, and recover from a Game Day at your company.
Designing with Observability in Mind
When you look at your workload, can you answer a simple question: is it healthy? Modern cloud architectures emit so much noise that finding the right signal can be daunting. In this talk we'll start by walking through best practices on observability from the Well-Architected Framework. Once we've set a foundation we will dive into a real-world example (with demo) of a workload that embodies these best practices.
Attestations for the Win
Improving software supply chain security is quickly becoming a necessary endeavor. New government regulations mandate things like Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) and compliance frameworks are adding requirements that necessitate hardening the software supply chain. In this talk I'll walk you through standing up your own automated governance infrastructure. You'll learn how to use software attestations, policy as code, and tools like OpenSearch to improve your software supply chain security. This talk is based on the work that we've done on behalf of several of our customers.
(Micro)chips and SLSA
Have you been keeping up with the latest news about software supply chain attacks? Wondering how you can comply with Executive Order 14028 or the latest NIST guidance on software attestations? In this talk we’ll dive deep into what it takes to build a secure software supply chain. You’ll learn about the Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts, build provenance, software attestations, with a demo of a secure pipeline. Attendees will walk away with the knowledge needed to secure their CI/CD pipelines and achieve SLSA build level 3.
Are Your Operations Healthy?
In our industry we place a premium on measuring our applications and improving the end-user experience. What if we applied the same kind of measurement to the way that we support and deliver those applications? In this talk we'll start with an overview of how we can measure our operations activities. We'll then take our theory and demo a real-world scenario where we can not only measure our operational health but then take steps to improve them.
OpsMetrics Meetings at AWS
Learn how AWS uses Operations Metrics Meetings to maintain a high bar of service availability for our customers (and yours).
Richard Boyd II
Technical Principal, Liatrio
Austin, Texas, United States
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