ideas.md

Ideas

• A conversation with the authors of The Practice of Cloud System Administration An interview with Limoncelli/Chalup/Hogan about their take on DevOps, continuous improvement, and where the industry is moving.
• DevOps Mythbusters - what are the myths about DevOps?
• From The Corner Office - panel of CTO/CIO/CEO (etc) talking about if they've done DevOps, if not, why not, advice, thoughts, etc
• Why Not DevOps? - maybe people who are resistent to it, think it's bad, and why is it bad?
• How to change your company culture to a DevOps model (scheduled for mid-March with Bill Joy)
• The Tester Show - QA folks. Maybe Lanette Creamer? Please?
• Mental Health in Tech - guest will be Ed Finkler
• DevOps Gone Wrong - Horror stories
• Database and DevOps/CD
• Configuration management roundtable
• Agile DevOps - how do the two mix? What are the overlaps, myths, confusions? Len Lagestee as a guest?
• Continuous Integration
• The Dev Show - Panel of developers from various orgs to see what they think of DevOps
• Deployment - Releasing software and bits in the DevOps world.
• Documentation - What are the best ways to manage a team's internal documentation? External documentation for users? What tools are available and what are the pros/cons? Who should write it, an intern or the lead engineer? How to keep it up-to-date?
• Backups and Disaster Recovery - not sexy but important
• DevOps Collaboration - What are the best ways to get the team talking/interacting?
• Scaling For Fun and Profit - How does DevOps work at scale? What does that even mean?
• The Culture Show - In a true DevOps workplace, what are the social/cultural implications for the people who work there (and the people who manage them)?
• Cloudy with a Chance of DevOps - how does cloud computing factor into devops? can you do devops without the cloud? what the hell is a freaking cloud anyway?
• Can DevOps come up as grassroots or does it have to be top-down? How do you do DevOps without "senior management" driving it?
• Hiring for DevOps/Getting a DevOps Job
• DevOps for the regular people
• The Sysadmin Show - how does a grizzled old-school sysadmin feel about this shiny new DevOps stuff?
• The DevOps Toolbox - SHARE ALL THE THINGS. The big bucket on the interwebs of DevOps resources. Guides
• Distinctive DevOps - DevOps best practices.
• Version Control - What it is and why you need it in DevOps. (Open discussion of vcs's Git, Mecurial, SVN, etc.)
• Git 101 - How to start using Git in YOUR environment.
• Phd. in DevOps - Learning DevOps from online sources. What are the best ones? Free? Commercial? Books? Offline material? Recommended reading list etc?
• Testing the Testers - How to help your testers test your infrastructure as code.
• DevOps Newbcast / Starter Kit - Learning the very basics. 3000 ft view of DevOps. What are the basic things you need to get started in your company?
• DevOpsCamp - Are there such things? Call for someone to make one. Similar to code camps but teach you devops practices as well.
• We put Ops in DevOps - Sysadmin Roundtable. How we use devops and what it means to Sysadmins.
• DevOps AMA - I'm a ask me anything. Q & A session via hangout / twitter.
• It Takes Two - A DevOps Tango. - Focusing on tearing down the silos in your organization. Thoughts, suggestions, and resources to help you implement DevOps in your organization.
• The DevOps Grass is Greener - Why DevOps is needed and how it makes your grass greener (watering it, improving your current DevOps process). Benefits of DevOps.
• DevOps User Groups - Do they exist, how to find one, how to create one, examples of successful ones?
• Deming/Goldratt stuff - Fletcher Nichol and John Willis?
• DevOps and Security - Ben Hughes from Etsy and maybe others?
• Empathy Show - Paul Reed? Adam Jacob? How not to be an asshole and why that's a problem.
• We Finally Talk About Cloud - Gotta do it sometime.
• Who Carries The Pager? Monitoring in a DevOps world. Does monitoring really suck? VictorOps maybe? Jason Dixon again?
• DevOps on Campus. Bringing DevOps tools, methodologies, and fun to higher education.
• Solo DevOps - managing to survive when you're the only ops engineer running a huge environment
• ChatOps & security - methods & recommendations for implementing chatops (or maybe other automation) without creating security holes