As more organizations are moving to the cloud, cloud architectures are getting more sophisticated by having a kind of technology diversity. This includes for example container orchestrators, database services, networking components & virtual machines.
When it comes to security, observability on this diversity is paramount. The main question here is, do you really perceive when your app landscape is under attack?
In this session, you'll have the opportunity to see various attack vectors & ways to mitigate them using different technologies.

Target Audience: Architects, Developers, Software Engineers
Prerequisites: Basic cloud & security knowledge
Level: Advanced

Extended Abstract:
Come and watch a live attack on a real-world based cloud architecture and see the attacker scan web applications and start lateral movement with the goal of exfiltrating data. Furthermore, become a part of the blue-team, defending and securing the architecture with modern open source tools.

"Which programming language is the fastest" usually is everyone's first thought when green software is mentioned! It's a common deduction that the fastest code is, therefore, the most efficient, which then, of course, can save us from this climate disaster. However, code efficiency is not even half of the story! In this talk, Sarah will review the three approaches that make software green. She will also introduce efficiency-achieving practices that can take us closer to fighting this pesky climate change.

Target Audience: Architects, Developers, SRE/DevOps
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of any Programming Language, Introductory Familiarity with DevOps Space
Level: Basic

Extended Abstract:
In this talk, I will go over the following:

1. My journey so far with green software emphasizes how I don't need to leave my climate enthusiasm at home every day when I go to work
2. Brief facts about WHY we need to take action now in the tech industry
3. 3 approaches that make software green
4. Why code efficiency is not the answer to most green software problems with an example
5. Going over why DevOps practices are much more effective in achieving greenness in software with a couple of examples
6. Wrapping up with fruit for thoughts, especially highlighting the close connection between DevOps practices and Green Software practices
7. Encourage the audience to look at their software engineering problems through a green software lense

Data, the way that we process it and store it, is one of many important aspects of IT. Data is the lifeblood of our organizations, supporting real-time business processes and decision-making. For our DevOps strategy to be truly effective we must be able to safely and quickly evolve production databases, just as we safely and quickly evolve production code. Yet for many organizations their data sources prove to be less than trustworthy and their data-oriented development efforts little more than productivity sinkholes.

Target Audience: Developers, Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers
Prerequisites: Understanding of DevOps
Level: Advanced

Extended Abstract:
This presentation begins with a collection of agile principles for data professionals and of data principles for agile developers - the first step in working together is to understand and appreciate the priorities and strengths of the people that we work with. Our focus is on a collection of practices that enable development teams to easily and safely evolve and deploy databases. These techniques include agile data modeling, database refactoring, database regression testing, continuous database integration, and continuous database deployment. We also work through operational strategies required of production databases to support your DevOps strategy. If data sources aren’t an explicit part of your DevOps strategy then you’re not really doing DevOps, are you?