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Changing how 10 people work is difficult. Changing how 5,000 is near impossible. If you're trying to move beyond your initial success at transforming how your organization builds and runs software, you're experienced this problem. We'll look at common challenges and cover tactics to address them.

Changing how 10 people work is difficult, changing how 100 work is very difficult. And, barring Planck's principle, changing how 5,000 or more people work is, typically, impossible. When it comes to improving how large organizations build, release, and run software, scaling to thousands of people is the real challenge. If you're trying to move beyond your initial success at transforming how your organization builds and runs software, you've experienced this scaling challenge. Thankfully, most of the problems in this challenge are common challenges. Though you may feel cursed and alone, in our experience talking with hundreds of organizations, most of the problems are the same. This talk will look at several of these common challenges and cover tactics to address them. Part of applying a tactic successfully is understanding why the challenge exists in the first place, which the talk starts with.

Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He's been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.

Discover why diversity is not just a moral imperative but a critical driver of innovation and financial success. In today's competitive landscape, companies need to leverage every advantage to stay ahead. This session will reveal how diverse teams can unlock groundbreaking innovation, leading to increased profitability and sustainable growth. Why is this crucial? Because inclusive teams don't just perform better; they directly impact the bottom line. Studies show that diverse teams are more creative, solve problems faster, and drive higher revenue. Companies that prioritize diversity are more likely to outperform their competitors, attract top talent, and adapt to changing market conditions. In this talk, I will delve into the spectrum of neurodiverse traits, Hofstede's cultural dimensions, and the nuances of generational differences, showcasing how these elements can synergize to foster an empathetic and inclusive workplace culture. You will learn how diverse perspectives fuel innovation, improve decision-making, and lead to products and services that better meet the needs of a global market. I will introduce liberating structures as a practical and effective solution to unlock the full potential of diverse teams. You'll gain actionable strategies for crafting an environment where every voice is heard, and collaboration thrives. J oin me to learn how to transform your team into a vibrant, inclusive, and innovative force that can tackle any challenge, drive sustained success, and secure a competitive edge in the market. Investing in diversity is not just a long-term strategy; it's an urgent necessity for companies looking to thrive in a slim market. By embracing diversity now, you'll ensure your company's profitability and resilience for years to come.

In the vast landscape of technology, innovation thrives on the unique blend of neurodiversity, cultural backgrounds, and generational wisdom. This dialogue is a tapestry of strategies, stories, and empirical evidence designed to guide you in harnessing this collective power. Explore the art of empathy as a bridge across diverse thought processes, cultural nuances, and generational insights, enriching your team's creativity and problem-solving prowess. This session celebrates the richness of diversity, transforming it into the driving force of groundbreaking advancements in tech.

My core values are trust, authenticity, autonomy, reliability, empathy, and respect. I am committed to fostering a space of understanding and authenticity. My mission is about empowering each individual to discover their unique solutions, fueled by the freedom and trust we instill in one another. I uphold the inherent worth of each person and strive to promote genuineness in all aspects of our interactions. I am dedicated to unlocking your deepest potential, and nurturing the unseen strengths within you. I aim to guide you in identifying and pursuing your most stimulating, significant, and stretching goals, thereby kindling your intrinsic passions. Once your inner flame is kindled, my aspiration is for its warmth to leave a lasting imprint on you and to radiate outwards, touching those in your world. My belief is that tasks are short term, existing within the confines of the present, but passion is enduring. It is passion that remains with us, shaping us, defining us, and leaving its indelible mark on the world. This is the essence of my impact: to ignite your enduring fire and allow its heat to echo into eternity. As a Director of Engineering at Novoda and the Founder/Coach at Avagasso Coaching, I genuinely believe that transformation starts with a shift in mindset! I started my journey in the late 90s as a software developer, and since then, I have continuously evolved my skillset: * Giving trainings since 2002 * Adopted agile methodologies in 2003 * Embraced Scrum in 2008 * Embarked on my leadership journey in 2008 * Discovered the power of Liberating Structures in 2017 * Stepped into coaching in 2019 By creating a supportive ecosystem that integrates System, Agile, Personal Development, and Leadership Coaching, you can establish a strong foundation for success. Encourage communication and collaboration, foster a culture of continuous learning, and empower your leaders to guide their teams effectively to achieve the best possible results for your organization.

How can we effectively identify and collect metrics of already long-standing production applications without spending a year on them? We will explore strategies to handle these challenges swiftly and develop a guideline for monitoring applications' performance and user experience.

The value of application monitoring is indisputable, yet often we grapple with functioning applications that unveil performance issues over time. In environments where these bottlenecks negatively impact user experience, and with an expansive codebase to manage, finding quick and efficient solutions becomes a priority. So the question is, how can we effectively identify and collect metrics of long-standing production applications without spending a year on them? In this lightning session, we explore various strategies to handle these challenges swiftly and develop a guideline for developers seeking to maintain and improve their applications' performance and user experience.

I am a software engineer and security champion at JetBrains. My current focuses are high-load systems, more specifically new transaction management concepts for the embedded database, software development on Kotlin/Java, and network security. As a member of the Security Champions team, I ensure the robustness of systems by identifying and fixing security issues. I am a serial hackathonner and my interests also extend to mentorship, where I guide and support students through workshops and talks, equipping them with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel in their professional journeys.

This presentation explores the potential of LLMs & GenAI in infrastructure management, focusing on current capabilities, limitations, and future developments.

1. LLM Models I'll explain how LLMs work, how they are trained, and their probabilistic approach. I'll illustrate difference through Python & Terraform code generation comparisons

2. Issues with IaC Generation

3. Context Limitations: AI might produce suboptimal configurations due to missing context, leading to inconsistencies or dependency issues.

4. Security Risks: Models trained on public data may propagate vulnerabilities (e.g., open ports) and bad practices.

5. Synthesis vs. Generative AI Generative AI creates code/content, while synthesis AI analyzes and combines existing information, like logs, to identify issues. Understanding this distinction is crucial for effective use.

6. Future Potential - Context retrieval AI’s full potential will be realized when it integrates comprehensive environmental context, including configurations and service interdependencies. I will make the distinction between classical RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and graph-RAG to create such context, and their current limitations.

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) already ensure system uptime and performance. This talk expands the focus to include environmental impact. Learn how to measure, manage, and reduce the carbon footprint of your IT infrastructure. We'll cover carbon accounting methodologies, strategies for optimizing technology and architecture, and ways to identify and avoid greenwashing.

Pini Reznik is a seasoned technology leader with extensive experience in the software industry. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of re:cinq, a pioneering Green Software Services business that empowers organizations to reduce their carbon footprint through innovative software solutions.

Come and explore the landscape of SRE as it is in 2025, with the new trends, techniques and tools on the horizon.

Unlock the secrets to building resilient serverless applications! Discover how to use AWS isolation boundaries, dive into chaos engineering, and leverage AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to ensure your application withstands any disruption. Join us for essential strategies and best practices!

This session focuses on building resilient serverless applications using isolation boundaries, and explores chaos engineering and AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) for thorough testing. AWS offers isolation boundaries like Availability Zones and Regions to ensure high availability and continuity. Testing your serverless application's response to disruptions is crucial. This session will guide you on leveraging these isolation boundaries, utilizing chaos engineering, employing AWS FIS for testing, and implementing best practices for continuous resilience and maintaining application availability.

I have been working in the IT industry for over 10 years, taking on various roles such as DevOps and SRE engineer, Solutions Architect, and Technical Lead, from local regional startups to corporate companies. Currently, I am a DevOps Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where I focus on building and delivering production-grade resilient systems for AWS customers. My expertise includes chaos engineering, creating SLOs to track system reliability, and building distributed systems. I have deep experience in serverless and container systems on AWS. I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and regularly speak at industry events on these topics. And just for fun, my favorite member of One Direction is Niall Horan.

In rapidly expanding cloud-native ecosystem, managing distributed architectures feels like navigating stormy seas with waves of telemetry data. Yet this data can offer vital insights to sail smoothly. This session will explore strategies to avoid drowning, improving DevEx, and more.

The cloud-native ecosystem has grown exponentially in the last few years, as has the complexity of the distributed architectures being built. In a context where keeping up with technology requires a substantial amount of computational power and data, monitoring our cloud-native applications has become a constant struggle against the storm. The ever-increasing volume of traces, metrics, events, and logs generated by our systems is a double-edged sword: on one hand, if not managed correctly, becoming a distraction from needed insights. On the other hand, if approached with care and thought, providing organizations the chance to sail calm cloud-native seas. In this session, we will discover how to avoid drowning in the sea of monitoring data, instead understanding how to provide insights while using only what is needed. We will explore the emerging scenarios on the horizon, abandoning the oars and testing the waters of artificial intelligence as it applies to our observability use cases. We will discuss how to leverage monitoring data, conversational DevEx, and anomaly prediction, among other topics, in this talk.

Eric is Chronosphere's Director Evangelism. He's renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author, baseball expert, and CNCF Ambassador. His current role allows him to help the world understand the challenges they are facing with observability. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations. More on https://www.schabell.org. Graziano is a Developer Relations Engineer at Mia-Platform, specializing in content creation, technical evangelism, and bridging communication between users and R&D teams. He is also a recognized Green Software Champion, actively contributing to sustainable software practices. With a background in developing distributed systems and product management, Casto is an active speaker at industry events and a published author on topics like cloud-native technologies. He has previous experience as a Technical Product Owner and Software Engineer, focusing on agile practices and product management.

On April 26, 1986, four reactors exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine. The amount of radioactive radiation emitted is about 200 times higher than the total emission from the atomic bombs that fell over Nagasaki and Hiroshima. A fateful day in the human history. We walk through series of events that happened on that fateful day at Chernobyl and try to look at these events from two perspectives: an incident management perspective and an observability perspective. We go on together in this journey and address the elephant in the room and literally “elephant foot” at Chernobyl. But most importantly, what if we could go back to the future and prevent it, what if? We analyse and try preventing it together using best practices we are using at ING. The focus of the topic covers the technology, practices, processes as well as cultural perspectives during these crisis's. We look at how the best practices should come together to avoid crisis in our day to day life, work for ourselves and our customers. The focus group is engineers, major incident management managers and leadership.

Anand is a Global Practice Lead (Observability) at ING Bank. Before this stint, I was Head of Engineering at Atradius for Shared Services. I have been writing code and doing things around code for almost 15 years now. My mantra in life: keep three women in life happy: mother, wife and daughter. Prior to joining Atradius, I was a IT Area Lead/Head of Engineering in Channels at ING Bank N.V. leading the Technology practice and transformation for its Omnichannel department. Throughout my consulting years I served banks in Europe, North America and Asia and was primarily focused on digital business building, technology, strategy, and enterprise operating model transformations. I have a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering from Army Institute of Technology, Pune, India. I love reading, writing and gardening in my free time.

As demand grows for more personalized, responsive AI agents, ensuring fast, scalable, and secure deployment is crucial. In this presentation we explore practical strategies for creating AI agents that meet today’s industry standards for efficiency and adaptability. We’ll cover the essential steps in designing modular, personalized agents, the infrastructure required to scale agents effectively, and the orchestration techniques needed to manage complex workflows across thousands of agents.

Iggy Gullstrand is the CEO and co-founder of Triform, a pioneering platform for building, deploying, and orchestrating large-scale AI agents tailored to meet today’s dynamic production demands. Iggy and Josef Nilsen are currently out on a road trip through Europe with a tiny campervan visiting events and building the platform while meeting up with developers from all over the world.

GenAI has gone from generally available, novel technology to widely adopted in a matter of months. Most engineering organizations are now using GenAI to generate code, write tests, and assist in code reviews. New code is becoming dirt cheap to write - but our delivery pipelines remain miserably unprepared for the tsunami of new code flowing at a much more rapid pace.

Our current pipelines need a hard reset to prepare us for the GenAI revolution - and engineering managers need to get started TODAY.

This talk will dive into where GenAI is starting to break down our delivery pipelines. While scaling CI/CD is easy, and we can always add a few more workers, scaling the humans in the process is the hard part. This talk will demonstrate how massive amounts of new machine-generated code will impact our pipelines, in ways that will require either greater headcount, or smarter, automated pipelines. You’ll come away with ideas for how to modernize your delivery pipeline so you can fully embrace the GenAI revolution.

Yishai is the CTO at LinearB, a leader in the Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) market. This talk is based on our research and unique access to data across a very large based of dev teams and orgs.

Do you ever get that awful feeling that you’re not good enough to do your job? That you lack skills, intelligence and talent? That everyone around you knows what they’re doing, and you just slip through by luck, chance, and appearing to be better than you really are? Do you live in fear that it’s only a matter of time before someone discovers you’re just a fraud? You are not alone.

According to research, Impostor Syndrome affects almost 90% of people working in IT. In this presentation, I will unravel this phenomenon, explore why it is so dominant in our industry, how one gets into a vicious circle and where it can lead to. I will discuss how the awareness of simple mechanisms will help you see your competencies and what tricks to use to defy the demons of insecurity.

*May contain traces of rubber ducks"

Pawel has been working in Wrocław IT since 2009. He was digging through the code in a Finnish telecom, German logistics, a Swiss bank, a car factory, a travel startup, British compliance, and villa rental. Currently, he has gone to the dark side and takes care of a flock of programmers and team leaders, a mentoring program, a guild and is sticking his nose wherever else he can. Personally, he likes to read, play board games, analog and computer RPGs. He practices powerlifting and collects vintage Lego Technic. Writes about software, peopleware and dragons on HowToTrainYourJava.com.

Dive into the world of serverless and explore common, costly mistakes and learn actionable tips for cutting down waste and reducing your AWS bill. Whether you're looking to cut down on CloudWatch costs or improve cost-efficiency for your serverless application, we've got some helpful tips for you.

Helpful tips to cut down on waste and reduce AWS cost, including how to keep CloudWatch costs in check, how to implement caching, how to pick the right services for your workload, how to right-size Lambda functions, and so on.

Yan is an experienced engineer who has run production workload at scale in AWS for 10 years. He has been an architect and principal engineer with a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. He has worked extensively with AWS Lambda in production, and has been helping companies around the world adopt AWS and serverless as a consultant. Yan is an AWS Serverless Hero and a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally, and he is also the author of Production-Ready Serverless and co-author of Serverless Architectures on AWS 2nd Edition, both by Manning. Yan also keeps an active blog at https://theburningmonk.com.

Unlock the full potential of EKS with the latest features and best practices. From cluster health monitoring to simplified access management, IAM integration to powerful EKS add-ons, this talk will equip you with the tools to supercharge your Kubernetes experience on AWS. Plus, we'll dive into Karpenter v1 graduation, which optimizes cluster scaling and resource management.

In this session, we'll explore the latest features and enhancements in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) that help optimize your Kubernetes experience on AWS. We'll cover improvements in cluster health monitoring, simplified access management with IAM integration, and powerful EKS add-ons that streamline operations. Additionally, we’ll dive into Karpenter v1 graduation for enhanced cluster scaling and resource management. Whether you're focused on performance, security, or operational efficiency, this talk will provide valuable insights and best practices to help you get the most out of EKS.

Samuel Baruffi AWS Principal Solutions Architect 🏗️ | Harnessing AI & Cloud Technologies for Innovation 🚀 | Mentorship in Tech 👥 | Multi-Certified in AWS, Kubernetes, Juniper & Azure 🏅 A technology-driven professional with 17+ years of experience in the Information Technology Industry within multiple industries and currently focusing on helping global financial services organizations to adopt and modernize using cloud technologies.

Discover how WebAssembly is revolutionizing the cloud-native world! Its efficiency and security make it a fantastic alternative to containers. Join me as I demystify WebAssembly and its importance, and show you how to get started with tools like Krustlet and WasmEdge. Ready for an exciting ride?

WebAssembly is not just innovating the Web—it's transforming Kubernetes and the cloud-native world with unmatched efficiency and security. Imagine a world beyond containers; that's what WebAssembly offers. If it sounds daunting, don’t worry—I'm here to make it crystal clear. Discover why WebAssembly matters, how it works, and the incredible benefits it brings. We'll dive into getting started with WebAssembly on Kubernetes using tools like Krustlet and WasmEdge. Explore real implementations, exciting use cases, and hands-on examples. Ready for an exhilarating journey into the future of cloud-native? Let's go!

Deepu K Sasidharan is a Software Engineer by passion and profession. He is a Java Champion working as a Staff Developer Advocate at Okta. He is the co-chair of JHipster and the creator of KDash and JDL Studio. He is a polyglot programmer working with Java, Rust, JavaScript, Go, and so on. He is also a cloud technology advocate and an open-source software aficionado. He has authored books on Full-stack development and frequently writes about Java, Rust, JavaScript, Go, DevOps, Kubernetes, Linux, and so on, on his blog.

O11y was meant to simplify our operations not amplify the complexities. On average an org uses 5 tools and 8 subs. for o11y. Pixie is a one-platform open-source tool which leverages eBPF for tracing, monitoring, and Profiling under one roof. Let’s simplify O11Y and focus on our business logic :)

In the cloud-native space, there is a plethora of tools available for observing Kubernetes applications & Infra. However, the choices often involve either opting for service meshes that increase architectural complexity or selecting tools with exorbitant costs. What if there was a one-stop solution that covers monitoring, tracing, and profiling seamlessly at 0 cost and minimal changes? Join Prerit in this session as he takes you on a journey with Pixie, a CNCF sandbox offering comprehensive observability of your cluster and its workloads. Pixie enables you to monitor cluster resources, and application traffic, and delve into detailed views like pod state and flame graphs. Remarkably, Pixie achieves all this without introducing any overhead, utilizing eBPF to automatically collect telemetry data, including full-body requests and application profiles. Explore Pixie’s capabilities in monitoring network activity and Infrastructure Health with Flamegraphs. Don’t miss this session for a deep dive into Pixie’s observability features and how it simplifies the monitoring landscape for Kubernetes applications all followed by a hands-on demo for a live application.

Fuelled by an unwavering enthusiasm for Cloud Native Technology, Prerit consistently pursues new challenges and remains on the forefront of evolving technologies. Prerit also takes on a leadership role within the Code Cloud Community, where he actively organizes events centered around CNCF projects and the continuously expanding Landscape. Moreover, he has a YouTube channel "Tech With Prerit" where he shares his expertise and delivers content related to cloud native technologies.

This talk will be helpful for DevOps engineers looking to optimize their incident management and increase uptime.

In complex IT environments, having a proactive monitoring system is crucial. However, the challenge arises when anomalies are detected. How do organizations bridge the gap between detection and swift, informed action? This presentation aims to ease the first steps for implementing reliable incident response practices in everyday work for DevOps team. We will break down the incident response process into four stages — Preparation, Response, Communication, and Learning — to provide a detailed roadmap for managing incidents effectively, keeping user impact minimal, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Birol Yildiz is the Co-founder and CEO of ilert, adeptly steering the company with a rare combination of technical and product expertise. His prior experience includes a significant role as Chief Product Owner for Big Data products at REWE Digital. With a strong foundation in computer science, Birol bridges the gap between developer and product strategist, constantly striving to innovate and provide customer-centric solutions at ilert.

Looking at scaling SRE? You might need more than SREs. Let’s dive in Booking.com’s SRE journey and discuss our successes and failures in supporting reliability in a continuously growing infrastructure - from the on-premise monoliths of the start, to the thousands of services in hybrid cloud today.

This talk highlights Booking.com journey through implementing SREs - starting from a 2-teams setup in 2016 to our current organization of over 200 SREs spread around the world. The main constant of our journey was the need to continuously scale reliability practices. While hiring more SREs was the solution to support more products at the beginning, it quickly became clear that more was needed. More automation, more process, more collaboration, … and more delegation back to the developers. In a retrospective fashion, we will discuss the different models we tried, the challenges we faced, the changes we implemented, and move on until our current setup. This session is aimed at SRE, SRE managers and anyone interested in growing an SRE organization - benefiting from insights on our challenges and our successes.

Yoann is a Senior SRE Manager, with experience in building and operating resilient applications at high-scale. He joined Booking.com in 2018, where he is supporting company core services on performance, reliability, disaster recovery and security topics with a continuous focus on making SRE practices scale through efficient tooling and processes.

Many believe that robust engineering processes automatically lead to a reliable product. Yet, our experience proved this assumption can be both misguided and costly. Join Twingate's Director of Engineering, Birol Ertekin, as he reveals the surprising lessons learned from managing two major outages and turning reliability into a competitive company advantage within just six months. In this talk we'll go over the technical, organizational and cultural changes we've implemented to make a lasting impact on our reliability and build genuine, impactful relationships with our customers in the wake of disruptions.

Birol Ertekin is a Director of Engineering at Twingate, a new API-first security platform that helps companies manage how identities and devices access networks, applications, and data. Previously he has 20+ years of experience in the industry working for companies like Meta, Vudu - Movies & TV, ign.com. Highly enthusiastic about uptime and sees everything in life as a learning experience including outages. Won't be happy if root-cause(s) can not be identified in no-blame postmortems.

Think SRE adoption is a smooth journey? Think again! In this eye-opening talk, Riccardo reveals the top 7 blunders companies make when implementing SRE, drawing from years of hands-on experience and the insights captured in the "Enterprise Roadmap to SRE" book. Discover the hilarious (and sometimes painful) mistakes that can derail your SRE journey, and learn how to sidestep them with practical, actionable strategies. Key takeaways: * SRE Essentials: Demystify SRE and understand its core principles. * The Top 7 Errors: Learn from the most frequent and impactful mistakes companies make when adopting SRE, as highlighted in "Enterprise Roadmap to SRE". * Unlock Success: Leave equipped with the knowledge and strategies to navigate the SRE adoption minefield and achieve true reliability and efficiency.

In today's cloud-native environments, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become the foundation upon which modern infrastructure is built and maintained. This keynote explores the vital role IaC plays in ensuring seamless, scalable operations, with a special focus on how SRE teams can enforce best practices without falling into the trap of bottlenecks and manual interventions.

Drawing an analogy to the engineering of a dam, we will dive into how SRE teams can supervise IaC deployments effectively—just as a dam controls water flow—by unifying deployment strategies, ensuring consistency, and avoiding system leaks. The key to maintaining control lies in formatting IaC into reusable blueprints that promote cloud-agnostic solutions, while preserving critical data streams between these blueprints.

But supervision alone isn't enough. To truly prevent leaks, we must introduce and enforce policies that guide deployments, monitor changes, and ensure compliance. By applying these policies at every stage of the deployment pipeline and carefully monitoring each change, SRE teams can create a safe, reliable stream of infrastructure updates. With the right tools and a culture that avoids bottleneck centralization, the potential for scale becomes limitless.

This keynote will unpack how to implement seamless IaC policy enforcement, ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure that can meet the demands of any organization, without the need for constant firefighting.