Event
DevOpsDays, the international conference for all DevOps enthusiasts, is finally in Africa! DevOpsDays Cape Town, South Africa will be hosting its very first conference on 7 and 8 November 2016 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Woodstock.
DevOpsDays is a community conference, aimed at developers, sysadmins, engineers and anyone else involved in technology, whether expert or beginner.
DevOps is all about bridging the gap between Development and Operations. Agile techniques used in development have a significant impact on the way Operations organises its work. Likewise, Operations and Sysadmins are becoming Programmers as a result of trends in virtualisation and automation where everything is managed through an API.
Special accommodation rates are available at DoubleTree for the duration of the conference. Please contact organisers@devops.capetown for more info.
Conference Structure
Each day is structured into 3 parts:
Venue
Overlooking the busy Cape Town harbour and with an impressive backdrop of the green slopes of Devil’s Peak, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Cape Town - Upper Eastside offers easy access to the vibrant downtown area and the central business district. Cape Town International Airport is just 15 minutes away.
Speakers
Dale Humby
TALK
DevOps vs Hardware: Round 2
Using practices honed during their first four years of building and deploying hardware, firmware and software we were able to launch our second product, from nothing, in less than six months. This talk will cover a small teams' big lessons learned while designing hardware and manufacturing at scale, and running a highly available transaction backend.
BIO
Dale is the Chief Technical Officer of Nomanini, a South African-based technology provider dedicated to building the tools needed to facilitate cash payments in informal markets. He is an electro-mechanical engineer with a wealth of experience in embedded systems and back-end system design. In 2014, Dale was named a Developer Expert for the Google Cloud platform. Dale leads Nomanini’s team of software developers, hardware engineers and industrial designers, and is responsible for product delivery, manufacturing and the technical operations of Nomanini's mobile vending platform. Before joining Nomanini, Dale was the founding member of One Over Zero, which developed a wide range of products. He lead development on various bespoke embedded and M2M electronics and software projects for agricultural and FMCG markets.
Daniel Maher
TALK
DevOps: Past, Present, Future
Dan will be speaking to us about the history of DevOps, including the context from which the movement came to exist, how it has evolved until today, and where we're potentially headed in the next few years.
BIO
Daniel is a Senior Devops Engineer at Mozilla. He’s also been a small business owner, a university lecturer, and a day labourer. Send wine suggestions to him via Twitter.
David Rubin
TALK
Migrating at Scale
Change is hard! Everyone always talks about new shiny tools and “Devops” but what happens when you have a product that does billions of pageviews with teams that span multiple continents and timezones with more than a few hundred engineers (2000+ total employees). In this talk David will highlight some of the challenges OLX experienced with a recent move from high spec physical servers to running container based orchestration on AWS using versioned infrastructure.
BIO
David is an engineer and loves making developers’ lives easier and to keep VPCs purring like kittens. Currently working at OLX bringing his startup experience into handling and building OLX’s technology platform. For the last 7 years he has worked for the FireID group on various products including being part of the original team that built SnapScan, CEO of Swiftly, CTO of FitKey. He takes pride in his few fast failures along the way too. David currently lives in Stellenbosch, the wine capital of South Africa.
Eric Maxwell
TALK
Chef Habitat x3
During the Habitat Workshop we will start with a deep dive into the components that make up Habitat and learn all about what it takes to create a Habitat Artifact that is runtime agnostic. You will then be exposed to a few demos showing off some of Habitat’s awesome features.
BIO
Eric is a Success Engineer at Chef Software and is focused on making companies more awesome by helping them "do the DevOps" and enabling them to ship at velocity. In past lives, Eric was a back-end C# engineer, a big-data engineer playing in the Hadoop ecosystem, and a professional social engineer working in the InfoSec world.
JP Viljoen
TALK
Infrastructure That Goes Bump In The Night
Do you know what your infrastructure is doing? Does it sometimes end up phoning you awake in the dead of the night? This talk aims to give a whirlwind tour of some common monitoring approaches, some common mistakes, along with imparting some general hard-earned wisdom.
BIO
A computer farmer and packet herder by trade, JP spent years working in the broadcast and telecoms industries. The founder of Featherlight Consulting, JP adheres to the philosophy that things can, and most likely will, break. He spends much of his time caring about meaningful insights into systems, engineering reliability where needed, and delivering bespoke solutions in a number of problem domains. JP picks Python as the first hammer in his toolbox (although he writes whatever is necessary), learns Haskell for fun, reads filesystems whitepapers while drinking beer, and plays with IP video streams and Internet routing protocols when bored.
Noa Resare
TALK
Scaling Operations with DevOps
In this talk we’ll explore the challenges faced when moving from a single, central operations team running every service, into a world where operations people are spread out in the organisation and software engineers have a lot of operational responsibilities.
BIO
Noa is an engineer with a long background in both in operations and development in organisations large and small. He currently holds a position as Production Engineer at Facebook in London, before that he brought music to the world at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden.
Seth Vargo
TALK
Hashicorp Vault
Seth will be speaking about using Vault to help build secure applications. Vault is an open source secret management system that features storage, leasing, renewal and revocation.
BIO
Seth is the Director of Evangelism at HashiCorp. Previously, Seth worked at Chef (Opscode), CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, or speaking at conferences, Seth enjoys spending time with his friends and advising non-profits. He loves all things bacon.
Spencer Krum
TALK
Code Review for Operations
Code review has been shown to help developers produce better code. It can also help SREs run more reliable systems. Our ops team is fanatic about using code review and representing our infrastructure as code so that code review can be leveraged. In this presentation I will discuss why we use code review, how we use it, where we find the value and where we’re heading next.
BIO
Spencer has been sysoping Linux since 2010. He works for IBM contributing upstream to OpenStack and Puppet. Spencer is a core contributor to the OpenStack Infrastructure Project. Spencer coordinates the local DevOps user group in Portland and volunteers for an ops-training program at Portland State University called the Braindump. Spencer is a published author and frequent speaker at technical conferences. Spencer is a maintainer for the voxpupuli effort, which attempts to bring together a network of Puppet developers, modules, and infrastructure. Spencer lives and works in Portland, Oregon where he enjoys tennis, cheeseburgers and StarCraft II.
Sponsors
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Bronze
Pre-Conf Social
Conference Social
Wrap-Up Social
Sponsorship Prospectus
Gold
R75,000
- 4 tickets
- Logo on website
- Logo on event t-shirt
- Logo on lanyard
- Branded items for goodie bag
- Logo on all email communication
- Logo and short video on screens
- 1 minute elevator pitch
- 20 min demo during Openspace
- Booth/table
- Shoutout via Twitter
- Shared table for giveaways
Silver
R50,000
- 3 tickets
- Logo on website
- Logo on event t-shirt
- Branded items for goodie bag
- Logo on all email communication
- Logo on video screens
- Booth/table
- Shoutout via Twitter
- Shared table for giveaways
Bronze
R30,000
- 2 tickets
- Logo on website
- Logo on event t-shirt
- Logo on all email communication
- Logo on video screens
- Shoutout via Twitter
Pre-Conf Social
R25,000 (est.)
- 3 tickets
- Swag at the social
- Logo on website
- Logo on event t-shirt
- 20 min demo during Openspace
- Booth/table
- Shoutout via Twitter
Conf Social
R35,000 (est.)
- 4 tickets
- Swag at the social
- Logo on website
- Logo on event t-shirt
- 20 min demo during Openspace
- Booth/table
- Shoutout via Twitter
Conf Wrap-Up Social
R15,000 (est.)
- 2 tickets
- Swag at the social
- Logo on website
- Logo on event t-shirt
- 20 min demo during Openspace
- Shoutout via Twitter
Become a Sponsor!
Email organisers@devops.capetown to submit your sponsorship proposal.
Conduct
ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY
DevOpsDays is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organisers.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
Exhibitors in the expo hall, sponsor or vendor booths, or similar activities are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, exhibitors should not use sexualised images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualised clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualised environment.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately.
Conference staff can be identified by distinct staff badges. Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.
We expect participants to adhere to the code of conduct at all conference venues and conference-related social events.
CODE OF CONDUCT
I. I am an attendee at DevOpsDays, learning from and sharing with other DevOpsDays attendees in an effort to better myself and my industry. I co-create the experience with fellow attendees. I am prepared to give my energy, presence and sensitivity to creating the best possible experience for myself and others.
II. I am coming to DevOpsDays to interact with people. I understand that imagery and language which is suggestive or derogatory will offend and make people uncomfortable. I also understand that people may have boundaries and sensibilities different from my own. I will accept without question when informed that something is offensive or unacceptable in the context of the DevOpsDays event.
III. I will never intentionally harass or offend another attendee regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, appearance, size, race or religion and will not abide another attendee being harassed or offended. If I am aware that anyone is uncomfortable or unsafe, I will notify those giving offense and the DevOpsDays event organisers.
IV. If I am offended or harassed, I will inform people around me who make me feel safe and the event organisers. If I feel safe, at my discretion, I will inform those giving offense of the specific actions with the hope that the other party is well-intentioned and ignorant, but I am under no obligation to do so.
V. I understand that people are different and I attempt to be forgiving of others actions at the level of their sincere intent, but my priority is protecting my safety and the safety of others. I will act without hesitation or reservation until there are no question of the safety of all parties.
VI. I trust the DevOpsDays organisers and attendees will co-create the best possible experience for everyone involved, as I will. I believe DevOpsDays is about empowering people and I will not forget I am empowered to create a safe and nurturing environment. If I or any other attendee violates this aspect of the event, I expect the conference organisers to protect the attendees by direct action, including expelling those in violation and contacting the proper authorities.
Organisers
To contact the conference organisers email organisers@devops.capetown