cdCon 2022

Critical infrastructure products like Spinnaker form the basis of many technology strategies, increasing the velocity of innovation while reducing the risk of outages. Failure of these systems erodes trust, limiting a team’s ability to delegate responsibility. When deploys fail due to operational constraints or bugs in the platform, it becomes difficult for teams to reliably deploy, encouraging alternative solutions that detract from delivering business value. Much like software infrastructure, failure in more traditional domains is no less worrisome. For example, without trust in a system of laws, it’s difficult to facilitate basic interactions between parties. In this session, we’ll explore the relationship between critical infrastructure across domains and propose a set of strategies for building resilient CD platforms that prioritize trust over building features.

The agile and devops movements have become “the way” to run a business and develop software today. Both agile and devops spring out from some previous insights, and build upon certain important principles. I would like to analyze these in the light of ancient philosphy. What would Aristotle say?

With many organizations making a pivot to DevOps mindset, it is imperative that we measure progress on that journey. At Northwestern Mutual, we wanted to chart our journey and demonstrate our progress throughout. As a part of that we developed a gamification process which leverages data from various Devops tools in the tool chain and aggregates it into dashboards to provide visibility on current state and trending over time. In this session, I’ll show you what types of metrics we captured and how this process can drive improvements at your organization.