DevOps
Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh
Friday Dec 2 / 12:30PM PST
Controversy over the future of service meshes and their architectures is swirling. This is a vital discussion as enterprise migration to microservice and Kubernetes-based architectures continue. This talk incorporates the latest community developments to explore what the future looks like.

Jim Barton
Field Engineer @Solo
DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations
Thursday Dec 1 / 09:00AM PST
Introducing the track, this talk will define terminology and introduce the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems.

Adrian Cockcroft
Former VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture @Amazon
Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix
Friday Dec 2 / 11:20AM PST
GraphQL is steadily gaining popularity as an API technology choice for Client to Server communication. However, it can be daunting to realize the benefits of GraphQL without significant investment.

Tejas Shikhare
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
What API Product Managers Need
Friday Dec 2 / 10:10AM PST
With thousands of APIs being built across the industry, serving millions of developers worldwide, and driving billions in revenue, there is a need to manage APIs as products. Building great API products requires both building technically sound APIs and creating an API experience to match.

Deepa Goyal
Product Strategy @Postman, previously Product Developer @PayPal & @Twilio
Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!
Monday Dec 5 / 09:00AM PST
Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious concepts from astrophysics that are used to explain observations of distant stars and galaxies.

Chris Richardson
Creator of microservices.io, Java Champion, & Core Microservices Thoughtleader
Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck
Monday Dec 5 / 11:20AM PST
As a digital scale-up continues to gain momentum and grow rapidly, one of the key determining factors of success is how quickly they can evolve their product. The business desires to push features to production as fast as possible and prove value to its customers.

Cassandra Shum
Technologist | Architect | Ex-Thoughtworks
Dark Side of DevOps
Thursday Dec 1 / 10:10AM PST
Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular: moving things to the earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers, shifting control definitely sounds good.

Mykyta Protsenko
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Infrastructure as Code: Past, Present, Future
Tuesday Dec 6 / 12:30PM PST
Infrastructure as code enables us to automate and manage all sorts of infrastructure, from on-premises virtual machines to cloud resources, and everything in between.

Joe Duffy
Founder and CEO @PulumiCorp
Taming Configuration Complexity Made Fun with CUE
Tuesday Dec 6 / 09:00AM PST
Configuration has become the number one complexity problem to solve in infrastructure and beyond. Configuration is in more places than people imagine. Every part of your tech stack—databases, apps, schemas, services, workflows, policy, models, networking—must be configured.

Marcel van Lohuizen
Creator of CUE
The Endgame of SRE
Tuesday Dec 6 / 11:20AM PST
The containers are deployed and the builds are green. Yaml flows through the system, linted, reviewed, tested, and shipped with ease and regularity. Our intrepid SRE finds themself at a crossroads. The infrastructure is great but teams still struggle to maintain error budgets.

Amy Tobey
Senior Principal Engineer and SRE Practice Leader @Equinix