Agile/DevOps

Agile Software delivery for physical products is tough, especially when you are working with a company that had Waterfall working for them for so long. In an attempt to unite the development of an embedded software, robotics and machine learning algorithms, mobile apps, and backend cloud services, can you really orchestrate the synchronization like a well-oiled machine? Especially if the Product launch date has been pre-defined?
I’ll be sharing how we typically do it at Dyson – it proves to be successful for us, maybe you can use it, too!

I’d like to share my belief that all frameworks are wrong but some of them are useful. I’d highlight the shortcomings of famous frameworks and how none of them ever show a complete picture that looks at all aspects of an organization. I’d then provide an alternative view of picking and choosing elements of certain frameworks rather than taking one thing as a whole.

Our cloud-native environments are more complex than ever before! So how can we ensure that the applications we’re deploying to them are behaving as we intended them to? This is where effective observability is crucial. It enables us to monitor our applications in real-time and analyse and diagnose their behaviour in the cloud. However, until recently, we were lacking the standardization to ensure our observability solutions were applicable across different platforms and technologies. In this session, we’ll delve into what effective observability really means, exploring open source technologies and specifications, like OpenTelemetry, that can help us to achieve this while ensuring our applications remain flexible and portable.

Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities.

This session will introduce you to Platform Engineering and how it is being adopted with Cloud Engineering practices.

Tracking a request’s flow across different components in distributed systems is essential. With the rise of microservices, their importance has risen to critical levels. Some proprietary tools for tracking have been used already: Jaeger and Zipkin naturally come to mind.

Observability is built on three pillars: logging, metrics, and tracing. OpenTelemetry is a joint effort to bring an open standard to them. Jaeger and Zipkin joined the effort so that they are now OpenTelemetry compatible.

In this talk, I’ll describe the above in more detail and showcase a (simple) use case to demo how you could benefit from OpenTelemetry in your distributed architecture.

I’ll be discussing about how organizations are leveraging their employeees creativity and own decision-making to build better organizations and products.
We’ll be tackling how to move away from a command and control setup to a more collaborative environment to boost productivity and validate solutions faster.