Category: Events

  • DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @Infosecurity Europe

    DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @Infosecurity Europe

    We have assembled another top flight list of speakers for our DevOps Connect event @Infosecurity Europe.  While pre-registration is sold out, if you are one of the 15,000+ attendees of Infosecurity Europe, you can still come to DevOps Connect on a first come, first serve basis.  Details and schedule are below:

    When: Thursday 4th June, Olympia London
    Time: 9.00 – 17.00

    Agenda for DevOps Connect:Rugged DevOps

    • 8:30am to 9:00am
      Meet and Greet
    • 9:00am to 9:10am
      Introductions – Alan Shimel and Wai Man Yau

    • 9:10am to 9:50am
      Joshua Corman, CTO, Sonatype and Rugged (Keynote)
      Dr. StrangeOps: How I Came to Embrace Rugged DevOps & SW Supply Chains

    • 9:50am to 10:30am
      Gareth Rushgrove, Puppet Labs
      Maintaining Control While Letting Go

    • 10:30am to 11:00am
      Florin Coada, Technical Specialist Graduate in Application Security at IBM
      Security at Speed; Best Practices for a Secure DevOps Implementation

    • 11:00am to 11:30am
      Helen Beal, Head of DevOps at Ranger4 Limited
      The DevOps Toolkit

    • 11:30am to 12:00pm
      Justin Arbuckle, Vice President, EMEA & Chief Enterprise Architect at Chef (formerly Opscode)
      A Manifesto for high velocity compliance

    • 12:00pm to 1:00pm
      Lunch Break

    • 1:00pm to 1:30pm
      Wai Man Yau, Sonatype EMEA
      Real World Customer Stories from the Software Supply Chain

    • 1:30pm to 2:00pm
      Stephen de Vries, CTO Continuum Security
      Automating Security Tests for Continuous Integration

    • 2:00pm to 2:30pm
      Elizabeth Lawler, CEO and CoFounder , Co-Founder Conjur Inc
      SecDevOps 2.0- Managing your Robot Army

    • 2:30pm to 3:00pm
      Marc Hornbeek, Senior Solutions Architect at Spirent Communications
      Case study – DevOps Cost-Effectively Secured Quality and Time-to-Market for a Complex Hardware/Software Network Product

    • 3:00pm to 3:30pm
      Jonathan Fletcher, Enterprise Architect – Technology & Platform (DevOps) Lead
      DevOps:  How the Industrial Revolution Got Us Here

    • 3:30pm to 4:00pm
      Benjamin Wootten, Co-Founder at Contino
      Transforming to Devops in the Enterprise

    • 4:00pm to 4:10pm
      Thank you and closing – Alan Shimel and Wai Man Yau

    If you are in London during these dates you can still register for Infosecurity Europe for free and attend DevOps Connect. Hope to see you there.

  • Webinar: Using Jenkins & XebiaLabs Software to Ensure Quality in Continuous Delivery

    Webinar: Using Jenkins & XebiaLabs Software to Ensure Quality in Continuous Delivery

    With the growing need to quickly release software and add value for customers, the trend towards Continuous Delivery is undeniable. At the same time, challenges exist in managing code quality within the software delivery pipeline. You are likely to have numerous tests in your pipelines to ensure quality, but making sense of all the test results produced by various jobs – and identifying the culprits and repeat offenders – becomes harder and harder as you speed up the delivery of your software.

    XebiaLabs and CloudBees can help you deliver better software faster. Join us live to see how you can:

    • Quickly understand and improve the quality of your code by leveraging the Jenkins Workflow plugin and XL TestView’s (formerly known as XL Test) aggregation, reporting, and qualification capabilities.
    • Make sense of your test data – collect, visualize and analyze data from all of your test tools in one central dashboard.
    • Extract test results directly from multiple Jenkins jobs and visualize them in a consistent way.

    Recorded Thursday, June 11th, 2015

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    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shotAlan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief of devopsy.kinsta.cloud.  An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events.  Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

    Panelists:

    DanJuengst_Headshot_2015-500x600-bwAs CloudBees’ Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Dan Juengst leads the product marketing efforts for the CloudBees Continuous Delivery Platform powered by Jenkins. Dan brings 20+ years of high tech experience to CloudBees with expertise in grid computing, high performance computing, and application performance. Dan has worked as both customer and vendor at both startups and enterprises. Dan’s resume includes Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SGI, Wily Technology, Terracotta, and Lockheed Martin where he started his career computing hypersonic reacting airflows around Mach 30 flight vehicles.

     

    Viktor Clerc is the XL Test Product Manager at XebiaLabs and is responsible for development, marketing and support of XebiaLabs’ test management and analytics solutions as part of their delivery automation product suite.

     

     

     

  • Webinar: From DevOps to Dev-Test-Ops – Automate Your End-To-End Software Pipeline

    Webinar: From DevOps to Dev-Test-Ops – Automate Your End-To-End Software Pipeline

    electric-cloud-logoTricentis_Logo_RGB_750pxSoftware quality matters. Adopting DevOps practices and increasing collaboration between Dev and Ops helps align teams around what matters to the business: Shipping product. Thorough testing is a critical step that is often handled manually, introducing risk and unpredictability into the process. Join Electric Cloud and Tricentis as we demonstrate proven techniques to ensure your software quality by automating more of your end-to-end software development lifecycle, including testing.
    Join this webinar to learn:

    • How DevOps practices help your Dev, QA and Ops Teams work more efficiently
    • How test automation eliminates manual handoffs and increases coverage
    • How detecting errors quickly can help developers optimize quality

     Date: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

     Time: 2:00pm eastern standard time

    REGISTRATION LINK:(CLICK HERE)


     

    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shot Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

    About Panelists:

    tricentis-guy-300x300Dr. Gerd Weishaar Vice President of Product Management, Tricentis

    Dr. Gerd Weishaar has over 20 years of experience in product development and product management from various software companies, including Segue Software, Rational Software and IBM.  As VP of Product Management at Tricentis, Dr. Weishaar currently manages a team of experts who have a strong focus on market demands and needs.  His team is responsible for managing the entire product life-cycle of the Tricentis Tosca Testsuite and product marketing related content and communication. Dr. Gerd Weishaar is a computer science graduate of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, where he also obtained his Ph.D. He is also an MBA graduate of the prestigious MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

     

    image005Anand Ahire Director Product Management at Electric Cloud

    Anand has over 13 years of experience in product management, marketing and development and is a Pragmatic marketing certified product leader and customer advocate. Prior to Electric Cloud, he lead product marketing teams at BMC Software and eGain Communications and is very experienced in agile development methodology, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, IT Service Management (ITIL V3 Certified), application monitoring and automation. He holds an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing from Asia’s most premium business school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecom from the College of Engineering Pune.

     

     

  • Webinar: Show Me Success Before I’ll Invest in DevOps – A HM Health Solutions Case Study

    Webinar: Show Me Success Before I’ll Invest in DevOps – A HM Health Solutions Case Study

    Whatever your conviction, the reluctance by senior management to justify new investments and sponsor major change in existing software delivery practices and technologies, while theoretically understandable, often leaves application development executives and managers lobbying for additional budget and resources putting them and their teams between a rock and a hard place. So the question is how do you monetize the benefits and measure your DevOps results? Join Valerie Scott, Manager of Shared Services Division at HM Health Solutions, Rick Slade from IBM, and Alan Shimel from devopsy.kinsta.cloud as they discuss the process for quantifying DevOps benefits using metrics your business stakeholder will care about the most. They will walk you through the methodology and share customer case studies that demonstrate the impressive ROI that DevOps is providing to IBM clients worldwide.


    EVENT RECORDED: Tuesday, June 2, 2015

    VIDEO

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5haNExYZ2o

     

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    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shot Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

    About Panelists:

    vScottValerie Scott, Manager of Shared Services Division, HM Health Solutions Strategic planner and IT leader with years of architecture and infrastructure experience in the healthcare insurance industry, Valerie is a key player in the IT Transformation efforts by driving a lean wave of change in the HM software delivery pipeline with DevOps concepts and technology.

     

     

     

    jSlade

    James (Rick) Slade, Executive Solution Architect, BVA, Cost Benefit Analysis, IBM Rick is an Enterprise Solution Architect at IBM and spends his time helping clients design and automate enterprise software development and delivery practices. He is certified as an IBM and Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist.

  • Webinar: From DevOps to Dev-Test-Ops – Automate Your End-To-End Software Pipeline

    Webinar: From DevOps to Dev-Test-Ops – Automate Your End-To-End Software Pipeline

    electric-cloud-logoTricentis_Logo_RGB_750pxSoftware quality matters. Adopting DevOps practices and increasing collaboration between Dev and Ops helps align teams around what matters to the business: Shipping product. Thorough testing is a critical step that is often handled manually, introducing risk and unpredictability into the process. Join Electric Cloud and Tricentis as we demonstrate proven techniques to ensure your software quality by automating more of your end-to-end software development lifecycle, including testing.
    Join this webinar to learn:

    • How DevOps practices help your Dev, QA and Ops Teams work more efficiently
    • How test automation eliminates manual handoffs and increases coverage
    • How detecting errors quickly can help developers optimize quality

     Event Recorded Thursday, May 28th, 2015

    Video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-m2w9G-DU

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    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shot Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

    About Panelists:

    tricentis-guy-300x300Dr. Gerd Weishaar Vice President of Product Management, Tricentis

    Dr. Gerd Weishaar has over 20 years of experience in product development and product management from various software companies, including Segue Software, Rational Software and IBM.  As VP of Product Management at Tricentis, Dr. Weishaar currently manages a team of experts who have a strong focus on market demands and needs.  His team is responsible for managing the entire product life-cycle of the Tricentis Tosca Testsuite and product marketing related content and communication. Dr. Gerd Weishaar is a computer science graduate of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, where he also obtained his Ph.D. He is also an MBA graduate of the prestigious MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

     

    image005Anand Ahire Director Product Management at Electric Cloud

    Anand has over 13 years of experience in product management, marketing and development and is a Pragmatic marketing certified product leader and customer advocate. Prior to Electric Cloud, he lead product marketing teams at BMC Software and eGain Communications and is very experienced in agile development methodology, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, IT Service Management (ITIL V3 Certified), application monitoring and automation. He holds an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing from Asia’s most premium business school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecom from the College of Engineering Pune.

     

     

  • Webinar: From DevOps to Dev-Test-Ops – Automate Your End-To-End Software Pipeline

    Webinar: From DevOps to Dev-Test-Ops – Automate Your End-To-End Software Pipeline

    Webinar: From DevOps to Dev-Test-Ops – Automate Your End-To-End Software Pipeline

    Software quality matters. Adopting DevOps practices and increasing collaboration between Dev and Ops helps align teams around what matters to the business: Shipping product. Thorough testing is a critical step that is often handled manually, introducing risk and unpredictability into the process. Join Electric Cloud and Tricentis as we demonstrate proven techniques to ensure your software quality by automating more of your end-to-end software development lifecycle, including testing.
    Join this webinar to learn:

    • How DevOps practices help your Dev, QA and Ops Teams work more efficiently
    • How test automation eliminates manual handoffs and increases coverage
    • How detecting errors quickly can help developers optimize quality

     

     Date: Thursday, May 28th, 2015

     Time: 7:00am eastern standard time

    REGISTRATION LINK:(CLICK HERE)

    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shot Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.


    About Panelists:

    tricentis-guy-300x300Dr. Gerd Weishaar Vice President of Product Management, Tricentis

    Dr. Gerd Weishaar has over 20 years of experience in product development and product management from various software companies, including Segue Software, Rational Software and IBM.  As VP of Product Management at Tricentis, Dr. Weishaar currently manages a team of experts who have a strong focus on market demands and needs.  His team is responsible for managing the entire product life-cycle of the Tricentis Tosca Testsuite and product marketing related content and communication. Dr. Gerd Weishaar is a computer science graduate of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, where he also obtained his Ph.D. He is also an MBA graduate of the prestigious MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

     

    image005Anand Ahire Director Product Management at Electric Cloud

    Anand has over 13 years of experience in product management, marketing and development and is a Pragmatic marketing certified product leader and customer advocate. Prior to Electric Cloud, he lead product marketing teams at BMC Software and eGain Communications and is very experienced in agile development methodology, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, IT Service Management (ITIL V3 Certified), application monitoring and automation. He holds an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing from Asia’s most premium business school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecom from the College of Engineering Pune.

     

     

  • Webinar: IT Decentralization: How to speed up your organization safely

    Webinar: IT Decentralization: How to speed up your organization safely

    jumpCloudNew technology developments like DevOps, IaaS, and SaaS allow organizations to do more and make faster decisions with fewer staff and less budget. But, allowing anyone within an organization to deploy the technology they want with virtually no centralized oversight is a recipe for disaster. In this webinar DevOps evangelist and author Gene Kim and JumpCloud CEO, Rajat Bhargava, discuss how modern IT teams build decentralization into their organization while maximizing the security that their IT team needs to keep their organization safe.

    In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage decentralization safely to increase the pace that your business operates. Gene and Rajat will discuss actionable steps and controls for the following areas:

    • Hybrid Infrastructures
    • DevOps culture
    • BYOD workplaces
    • SaaS Apps
    • Remote workers
    • Wifi access points
    • Software Applications

     Recorded: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015

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    Post-Webinar Q&A:

    Q. If an IT organization is supporting software development but it is not Agile, does DevOps methodologies make a difference?

    A: Yes, as we mentioned previously, you’ll want to adjust your DevOps methodology to match your particular situation. Some organizations use Kanban instead of DevOps. The key here, though, is to build a process that is iterative and works to drive value on an incremental basis. – RB

    Q.  I can see how Web Services, SPAs, and APIs can be done easily this way, but do you do ‘legacy style’ stateful web apps this way as well? If so, how do you deal with deploying mid process blowing up the user’s application state?

    A: Yes, of course, DevOps can be leveraged for ‘legacy applications’. You will alter your test / release process to ensure that you don’t ‘blow up a user’s application state’. DevOps is a methodology and not a prescriptive process. You’ll adjust the process to match your particular situation, and, of course, that can include how you deploy more ‘thick’ applications. – RB

     


    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shot Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

    About Panelists:

    Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning entrepreneur, the founder and former CTO of Tripwire and a researcher. He is passionate about IT operations, security and compliance, and how IT organizations successfully transform from “good to great.”

     

     

     

     

    Rajat Bhargava is co-founder and CEO of JumpCloud, a provider of Directory-as-a-Service solutions. An MIT graduate with two decades of experience in industries including cloud, security, networking and IT, Rajat is an eight-time entrepreneur with five exits including two IPOs, three trade sales and three companies still private.

  • Webinar: Ship Faster without Breaking Everything

    Webinar: Ship Faster without Breaking Everything

    XebiaLabs_logo_hexThere’s a lot of noise in the market about what DevOps is and how to do it. Some might say that it’s more easily defined by what hasn’t been said about it. If you’re not interested in arbitrary definitions or doing something just for the sake of doing it, this webinar is for you.

    saltstack-logoYou have critical business goals to achieve: to ship software faster without breaking things in the process. But manual, error-prone infrastructure and environments, plus an increasingly complex end-to-end process of getting code from development to production, present serious challenges.

    Join SaltStack and XebiaLabs on May 21st, 1pm EST for a 45-minute session that will examine these challenges and show how the combination of XL Release, XL Test and Salt accelerates software cycles. Learn how XL Release, XL Test and SaltStack deliver advanced automation capabilities, enable data-driven improvement and provide continuous insight into your end-to-end software release process in a way other tools simply cannot.


    Event Recorded Tuesday, May 21st, 2015

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    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shot Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

    About Panelists:

    AndrewPhillips

    Andrew Phillips heads up product management at XebiaLabs. Andrew is an evangelist and thought leader in the DevOps, Cloud and Continuous Delivery space. He sits on the management team and drives product direction, positioning and planning.

     

     

     

    Matt-Meservey

    Matt Meservey, Director, Product Management, SaltStack

    Matt began his career in information technology as a systems and support engineer for Legato. With hands-on experience managing large-scale IT infrastructures, Matt transitioned to product management overseeing the development of systems management products for Altiris and Symantec. Matt brings more than 15 years of experience to SaltStack where he is responsible for all SaltStack Enterprise product management functions. Matt works with the SaltStack engineering team and the massive Salt developer community to deliver next-generation systems management software.

     

     

     

     

     

  • Webinar: Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation breaks down IT silos and speeds up mainframe development

    Webinar: Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation breaks down IT silos and speeds up mainframe development

    DevOps encourages adoption of lean and agile development practices irrespective of platforms. However in most organizations mainframe and mobile/web development teams are functioning in siloes, resulting in a plethora of technology platforms and tools, fragmented or manual processes, skills shortage causing unnecessary delays, rework and friction among teams, impacting organizations ability to respond to the business needs.

    Join Jeff Blackadar, Application Development Manager at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Alan Shimel and IBM experts as they explore the various DevOps strategies, practices and solutions to increase collaboration, streamline processes and leverage modern tooling to attract next generation of mainframe developers to speed mainframe application development and maintenance.

     

    Event recorded Wednesday April 22nd, 2015

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    Your Host:

    alan_new_head_shot Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.


    About Panelists:

    jeffJeff Blackadar, Application Development Manager, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

    A veteran at application development, Jeff leads a team that programs COBOL, VB.Net, Java and Enterprise Generation Language applications. He is dedicated towards implementing and upgrading of tools and practices to improve productivity and reduce the risks of making changes to mission critical mainframe applications.

    venkjatVenkat Balabhadrapatruni, Senior Technical Staff Member, Chief Architect, Enterprise Modernization, IBM

    Powered by extensive knowledge of z Systems, software design, development, delivery and enterprise modernization, Venkat is responsible for technical architecture and direction of Rational Developer for System z (RDz) and understanding requirements, emerging technologies, market trends and translating them into a technical strategy

  • We are sponsoring DevOpsDays Austin. Why?

    We are sponsoring DevOpsDays Austin. Why?

    devopsdaysaustinI am really happy to announce that we have signed on as a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Austin, May 4-5. While we have served as media sponsor for any number of events over the last year, this is the first time we have signed on to sponsor a DevOpsDays event. I am going to Austin and will be there to participate and report first hand.

    Why DevOpsDays? Why Austin? Why now?  All good questions. I wanted to ask and answer them right here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud to be totally transparent.

    Why DevOpsDays?

    We do hold DevOps Connect conferences (our RSA event this week had 700 people there) and at first blush one might think they are competitive to DevOpsDays. But they never were in my mind and shouldn’t be in real life either.  In InfoSec we have conferences like BlackHat, InfoSecurity Europe and RSA Conference, but we have Security Bsides too, which are much more like DevOpsDays.  It is a big world and there is plenty of room for both. Not only plenty of room but plenty of need.  One thing I have learned travelling all over the place these months is that there is still a lot of DevOps learning, sharing and as Gene Kim says, tribe building that needs to be done.

    From everything I have seen and heard about DevOpsDays they do a great job on all of these fronts. I think as DevOps continues to gain acceptance there will be a much clearer difference in the audience and agendas at different DevOps conferences.  The difference between a DevOpsDays versus a DevOps Connect will be obvious. The respective audiences will recognize this. There will be overlap at some levels and at other levels there won’t be.

    But at the end of the day devopsy.kinsta.cloud is about spreading knowledge and learning about DevOps and DevOpsDays is too. So really the question is “Why shouldn’t we sponsor and support DevOpsDays?”

    Why Austin?

    That is easy. It’s not that Austin is weird (it is), it is the people and the history of what they have built in their DevOps community. I met first Boyd Hemphill about 6 or 8 months ago. He introduced me to Ernest Mueller, both of these guys were willing to hop in their cars and drive hours to come to San Antonio and Dallas to help educate people on DevOps at the recent DevOps Connect @ Innotech Conferences we held.  They represent to me anyway, the very best of what the DevOps community should be.  They weren’t territorial, judgmental or anything else but helpful.  With people like that in leadership roles Austin has to be a great place to sponsor our first DevOpsDays.

    In addition to Ernest and Boyd, I am familiar with what James Wickett has done with Rugged DevOps and Gauntlt (if you are not familiar with James and Gauntlt check out our new Ebook). Lastly, everyone you speak to say that Austin DevOps Days year in and year out is one of the best DevOpsDays anywhere. This year’s lineup looks like another stellar one.

    Why now?

    The answer is I think this is the right time for devopsy.kinsta.cloud to be involved with this part of the DevOps Community. I am not naïve or tone deaf enough that I have not seen or heard (how is that for a double negative) that some in the early adopter community were not big fans of what we have built at devopsy.kinsta.cloud. But I am also really proud of what we have accomplished in a little over a year. I am confident enough in our audience, our content and our place in the market to think that we can and have added to the discussion.

    I believe that devopsy.kinsta.cloud has to offer value to the entire DevOps community. That includes people just looking to adopt DevOps, people who are just starting to learn about DevOps and all the way to people who have been leading and teaching about it for all these years now.

    So we venture out into what is for us new territory. We are excited to support and be part of this great event. We hope that this will be the beginning of supporting other DevOpsDays around the world. Hope to see you in Austin, May 4-5.

    What is in it for you?

    Besides seeing coverage of the event here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud, there is more. As part of our sponsorship we were given two tickets to the event.  I am only using one. We have another one available. The show is just about sold out and the tickets are a couple of hundred dollars at this point.  If you would like to attend DevOpsDays Austin on us write me at editor@devopsdays.com with why you deserve this free ticket and it is yours. If more than one person rights I will pick the one with the best reason (in my opinion). I am not making the winners public or the reason they deserve it. So that is what is in it for you.