Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Hosted by Pivotal at 1644 Platte Street, suite 200, Denver, CO (use http://www.bestparking.com/denver-parking/ to find parking)
5:30-6:00 Food, Soda, Beer and Networking
6:00-6:15 Announcements
6:15-7:45 DevOps – From 6 Months Waterfall to 1h Code Deploy with Brian Wilson
In 2011 we delivered 2 major releases of our on premise enterprise software. Market, technology and customer requirements forced us to change that in order to remain competitive.
Now – in 2017 – we are deploying and providing feature releases every 2 weeks for both our on premise and SaaS-based offering. We deploy 170 SaaS production changes per day and have a DevOps pipeline that allows us to deploy a code change within 1h if necessary.
To increase quality, we built and provide a DevOps pipeline that currently executes 31000 Unit & Integration Tests per Hour as well as 60 UI Tests per Build. Our application teams are responsible end-to-end for their features and use production monitoring to validate their deployments which allows them to find 93% of bugs in production before it impacts our end users.
In this session I explain how this transformation worked from both “Top Down” as well as “Bottom Up” in our organization. A key component was the 4 people strong DevOps Team who developed and “sell” their DevOps Pipeline to the globally distributed application teams. I will give insights into how our pipeline enables application teams to design, code, test and run a new feature for our user base.
I will also talk about the “dark moments” as change is never without friction. Both internally as well as with our customers who also had to get used to more rapid changes.
About Brian Wilson
Brian is a member of the Product Specialist and Sales Engineering teams at Dynatrace. Before joining Dynatrace, he spent 10 years in performance analysis. He loves seeing Dynatrace turn performance testers into performance engineers. Brian also co-hosts a podcast with Andi Grabner. Listen on Spreaker or Pure Performance.
You can find Brian on Twitter @emperorwilson.
7:45: Door Prizes