After installing Linux on his old i386 from a CD in the back of a Linux book he was given in 1995, Clint went on to be a Linux and open source power user. Splitting career time between software development and web scale operations gave Clint early insight into what is now known as the DevOps culture. Since then Clint has worked for Canonical on Ubuntu Server, HP on Helion OpenStack, IBM on OpenStack and BlueMix, and at GoDaddy bringing CI/CD and heavy automation to management of a 100,000+ core multi-continent private cloud. Today, Clint is a Staff Engineer at Spotify, helping engineers sustainably operate services at scale.

Presentations

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The DevOps Roast

In a world, where DevOps means almost nothing and everything, or sometimes just "Ops, but nicer to devs and with cloud and GitHub", one being among all of us is willing to stand up and laugh in the face of inertia.

 

Bring your DevOps rage, love and tears, and we'll distill them into 120 proof beligerance.

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Zuul - Crossing your CI dependency streams with ease

OpenStack runs one of the largest automated testing environments ever publicly viewed. Some might say you can even see it from space. While supporting the many hundreds of active developers, and landing many hundreds of well tested patches very day, the OpenStack infra team created an advanced Apache licensed CI engine named Zuul.

Until recently, Zuul has been focused entirely on OpenStack's CI space, but many users have sprouted from that. With v3.0 just around the corner, Zuul is ready to take on a wider community and scale your CI to the moon.

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Rust for your Brain, Rust for your Team, Rust for Justice

Rust is a new and exciting systems programming language promising strong typing, cost free abstractions, and fearless concurrency. Some of these hard problems have plagued all programming languages for years. We'll talk about why Rust helps you think about other programming languages more accurately, why Rust helps you communicate with your team, and how you can help test some actual Rust code every day to help the Mozilla foundation improve Firefox.

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Transforming organizations with OpenStack

This is a story about using OpenStack AND the development tooling around it. Testing every commit. Gated merges. Fixing bugs upstream first.  Config as code and code as conversation. We used OpenStack, Gerrit, Zuul and Jenkins to transform how a dozen globally distributed teams work together and radically improved how they develop, test and deploy software.  This is the story of how we got there and the incredible payoff in collaboration and development velocity.

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