Tech in Motion: San Francisco held their September Event at NextSpaceUS where three great presenters spoke about DevOps. The night began with networking and some great food and drink.
After making some great new connections, everyone gathered around for the presentations. Yaakov Nemoy came from a background in Open Source advocacy and technology. He is now building a DevOps company that is by engineers and for engineers. Yaakov spoke about what DevOps is and isn't, what a well-built process looks like, and explained the questions you should be asking and what you should know so you can focus on doing the work you love.
Daniel Nowak is currently a Technical Operations Engineer at Technorati Media. He uses his previous career in customer service to deliver outstanding support to both his internal and external customers. Daniel spoke about how delivering a fast-moving, exceptional product is challenging for both developers and operations. This is because developers and operations have different rolls that often put them at odds with one another. It is the roll of DevOps to bridge the gap between these two teams and unify them as one great team delivering a great product. He explained how having the right person in this roll will enable you to create an awesome team that produces amazing results.
David Kramer is currently the Senior DevOps Manager at Jive Software. David has over 14 years of experience in Systems Engineering and Technical Operations. He has worked in a variety of industries including Finance, HealthCare, Retail, andTelCo. David spoke about the basics of Puppet and Hiera and how Hiera itself isn't really complicated, but surprisingly, most people don't know about it.
The evening ended with questions for the three amazing speakers and more networking. Looking for more pictures from the event? Check out our Facebook page! And don't for get to join our group so that you don't miss out on the next event!