So we all know the tenets of DevOps - automation, full stack teams, cloud. In Mirco’s transformation journey with a large IT organization, he has learnt that some of these tenets are not always true. Too much of a good thing can actually hurt.

Here are some statements that will surprise you, come to this talk if you want to know why he made these choices:

• The team did not fail pipelines with failed tests
• The team did deploy code that had failed security scans
• The team chose manual cloud deployments over automation
• The team moved from Full Stack to a federated model

Really?!? Yes - of course there is more to this than meets the eye. He will explain what they learnt and how this can benefit everyone on their DevOps journey.

If you are interested in hearing experiences that challenge your view of DevOps, join him in this talk. He will share the mistakes and failures of his journey and how he mitigated over time. The story has been bumpy and so are the stories of many out there. Let's exchange notes.

For engineering team, velocity of product development is of paramount importance towards end user satisfaction and revenue growth of the organization. Engineers are expected to be able to release code quickly to production, sometime even multiple times in day. However, reliability of the software systems also cannot be compromised – otherwise the benefits of rapid product development is quickly lost. It is also of equal or more importance to ensure that the software system maintains the highest level of security standards expected by the users to protect organization from significant risks of financial, reputational and regulatory.

The objectives of velocity on one hand and stability and security on the other seems to have a conflicting demand on engineering bandwidth. In this talk, we would like to discuss on certain aspects of DevOps practice and metrics that helps in achieving and maintaining a fine balance among these seemingly conflicting objectives.

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