Languages of Infra

More than just Infrastructure as a Service, today we have libraries, languages, and platforms that help us define our infra. Languages of Infra explore languages and libraries being used today to build modern cloud native architectures.

TRACK HOST

Wes Reisz

Platform Architect @VMware & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previous VP of Technology @Section

Wesley Reisz is Platform Architect at VMware and former VP of Technology at Section (an Edge Compute Platform). Wes also chairs the San Francisco edition of QCon.

Before VMware, Wes served as the product owner for all of the English speaking QCon conferences worldwide, was a principal architect with HP Enterprise Systems, and, for over 13 years, taught as an adjunct professor for the University of Louisville (Go Cards!).

In addition to Wes’ current roles, he co-hosts of The InfoQ Podcast. The InfoQ Podcast serves senior early adopter/early majority developers and architects with interviews from some of software’s most important thought leaders. The podcast has been downloaded over 1.5 million times and has a weekly listener base of around 14K.

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TRACK HOST Wes Reisz Platform Architect @VMware & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previous VP of Technology @Section

From this track

Session

History of Infra as Code

Wednesday Nov 4 / 10:00AM PST

A language is a structured system of communication. Both our human and computer languages enable, shape, and constrain the concepts we can effectively express. A whimsical look at the co-evolution of infrastructure and code starting from the beginning of time to the present with a look to the...

Andrew Clay Shafer Coined the Phrase DevOps, currently VP Transformation @RedHat

Session

Helm: Past, Present, Future

Wednesday Nov 4 / 10:50AM PST

Building towards Helm 4, we had to continually ask ourselves what exactly we were trying to build. In the aftermath of Helm 3, we have reached new levels of clarity about where we want to go, and how we want to build a tool that continues to serve the needs of the Kubernetes community.

Bridget Kromhout Principal Program Manager @Microsoft Matt Butcher Principal Software Developer @Microsoft Matt Farina Software Architect @Rancher_Labs

Session

Security and the Language of Intent

Wednesday Nov 4 / 11:40AM PST

Infrastructure as code empowers developers and operators to scale systems and maximize availability, but what about improving security? The language of security can be difficult to remember and implement under delivery pressure. In this talk, I’ll discuss why the language of security for...

Tracy Holmes Developer Advocate @HashiCorp Petros Kolyvas Product Manager for Terraform Core @HashiCorp

Interactive Session

Languages of Infra Panel: Bash to Ruby to Go to Rust

Wednesday Nov 4 / 12:30PM PST

When we think of infrastructure, it's natural to think of shell scripts, but over the past few decades, there have been successive waves of newer languages being used to write and run infrastructure software. Ruby held the crown for a while, but then many things that started out in Ruby got...

Chris Swan Fellow, VP, CTO Modern Apps & Cloud Native @DXCTechnology Cornelia Davis Chief Technology Officer @weaveworks Ian Miell Cloud Native Consultant @containersoluti Justin Cormack Developer @Docker Ashley Williams Core Rust Team @RustLang

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