Scott Connerly
FILDI like Ze Frank
Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
Scott builds dev teams. If he wasn't Head of Impact Engineering, he'd probably be in DevOps by now. If not in DevOps, he'd probably be a carpenter. When he's not accidentally implementing #NoEstimates in NCE, you can find him hiking in Colorado and 3d printing tchotchkes for his kids. FILDI like Ze Frank.
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Not Nearly Frightened Enough: Modern Threat Modeling
More things are PII (Personally Identifiable Information) than you realize. Hackers could target your business for any reason. Vulnerabilities are growing more frequent and more severe than ever. Even the best security schemes can be beaten by social engineering.
So what's a developer to do? Threat Modeling. A process and ongoing practice to defend your turf. After all the scary stories, we'll talk about how to make threat modeling a formal part of your development process.
Growing an Engineering Team from Bootstrap to Enterprise
Tooling, testing, processes, and standards are all crucial to keep software running reliably. But at what stage in your team's or product's process do you integrate each, and to what degree? This talk will share my experiences building new products, new teams, and new infrastructures from scratch, multiple times.
The Two Question Code Quiz: How to Interview Programmers Effectively
First thing I do when walking into an interview is to see if there’s a whiteboard hanging on the wall. If there is, there’s a good chance somebody’s going to ask me to write code on there, and nobody’s gonna get any useful information out of the experience. There's also a good chance somebody’s going to ask me to tell them about a time I handled a difficult situation, and maybe even how I’d move Mount Fuji.
This is a session on how to have meaningful technical interviews and really learn if a candidate will be good for your team, hard skills and soft skills. I will also give away the two question code quiz, explain why these two are valuable, and how to administer them well.
Zen and the Art of Docker
Does the developer shape the container, or the container shape the developer? Come start with a primer on the basic concepts of containers and the Docker Way to orchestrate services, then move on how to migrate your monolith into manageable local dev environment, and then how to bring your containers to AWS's Elastic Container Service.
Tapas Teamwork
Great dev teams share small bites off of small plates. In this talk we’ll cook up the practical tactics for iteration and collaboration to make your team's own awesome sauce. Specifically, best practices around MVPs, breaking down epics, PRs, CD, Pairing, and Git for teams.
Bringing Order to Chaos
So, you find yourself coding in a code base that has some warts. OK, let's be honest, its a steaming pile of gum and toothpicks you're afraid to touch lest it might fall apart. How do you get from there to ... anywhere, let alone viable, architecturally useful, and stable? In this talk, we'll explore strategies I've used in the past and we'll have a bit of a group therapy session along the way.
Nobody Looks at CI: Visual Regression Testing in JS
Unit tests are great at telling if your project is broken. They're terrible at telling you your layout is falling apart, or that there's random error messages appearing in the footer. Enter visual regression testing. Tools like BackstopJS compare before and after screenshots, letting your graphic designers sleep at night. In this session I'll show you how to configure (json) and script (puppeteer) this tool, which easily integrates into your CI.
Evidence Based Planning
This session is a practical guide to turning the hashtag of #NoEstimates into workable plans that arrive on-time and on-budget. We’ll also talk about the two things you’ll have to give up to achieve that predictability.
Key Takeaways: Break everything down smaller. Use historical data, not estimates.
Target Audience: Everyone involved in transforming an idea into a working feature in production.
The Most Tested Login Page Ever
Automated testing is a mystery to some, an essential fortress to others, and many of the rest of us are somewhere in-between. Sure, you've probably heard of unit tests and API tests, but there's a whole world of more exciting testing approaches to use.
In this session, we'll explore every conceivable means to test ... a boring login page. Using approaches like accessibility testing, visual regression testing, acceptance testing, gherkin tests, load testing, and more. Beyond the tools and technologies of automated testing, we'll also look at some techniques and measurements that can be applied to each of the tools.
Building a diverse & equitable hiring process & team from scratch
Cishet non-disabled white dude here, reporting for duty. I'm not special, but I have learned a lot about how to recruit and retain people who come from more diverse backgrounds than myself. I'd like us to get together and share simple tactics escape the tyranny of the 90% of job applicants who look and sound exactly like me (Diversity). How to make sure team members are paid fairly (Equity). How to make sure everyone has a seat at the table (Inclusion). How to make sure everyone feels at home on the team (Belonging). I'll bring and share what tactics and perspectives I've learned, but I'd love to also make space in each section for others to share what they've learned on their journeys.
CodeMash 2020 Sessionize Event
RevolutionConf 2019 Sessionize Event
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KCDC 2018 Sessionize Event
Scott Connerly
FILDI like Ze Frank
Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
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