Laine Minor
IT & Human Architect
Laine has been a developer, a technical lead, a stay at home mom, and an IT architect – and that last was a broad enough title that it let her do both technical things AND cultural things.
She realized then that that was her most favorite place to be, in that in-between place of technology and culture.
She also learned that enabling people and organizations is HARD work, and that explaining that in-between place can help.
Presentations
DevSecOps with Containers and Kubernetes
Monday, 11:00 AM EST
This DevSecOps Workshop is a unique hands-on experience for building, deploying, and securing containerized cloud-native applications using industry-standard open source technologies.
You will learn how containers and Kubernetes (specifically OpenShift) can change the way you run mission-critical applications, as well as how to leverage an assembly line approach that automates increasing levels of security assurance for each step in the process.
Attendees will get hands-on, applying DevSecOps techniques in building a Secure Software Factory for a Java-based application with a variety of tools - including Gogs, Nexus, Jenkins, Quay, and Sonarqube.
You'll learn:
- A bit of each of those tools
- How to automate development and deployment processes using containers
- How to build an end-to-end trusted software supply chain
Container Tools: The Next Generation
Tuesday, 11:00 AM EST
CRI-O and Buildah and Podman, OH MY. (…and Skopeo, and what on Earth happened with Docker, and……) Containers are really cool, and also useful. Everyone knows it! The open source community has rallied around them and are constantly making improvements and tweaks to their capabilities. But…the tools generated by those open source communities are constantly evolving, and it ends up really hard to keep up on what does what and…why you should care.
Laine and Josh will explain containers as a whole, their lifecycle, and the tools currently among the landscape of awesome. They'll talk about when you should use what, and they'll demo how it all fits together to help with container-based application development and deployment.
To Hug or to Strangle: Tips for Dealing with Monolith Pain
Tuesday, 1:00 PM EST
A long time ago, in a land far far away, there were monoliths. These fabled artifacts brought consistency and stability to the land - but there was a cost in speed, agility, time, and development pain.
Whether Java EE, .NET, or something else, the big ol' integrated plexi-purpose binaries or yore (and also now…) have grown into problems that hurt developers, architects, and the execution of business goals.
In this talk, Josh and Laine will talk specifics about the pain points of monoliths, and the various strategies they've seen to alleviate that pain.
Event-Driven Architecture and Serverless Workshop
Tuesday, 3:00 PM EST
The world around us exists as a collection of events - things that happen and data points that we take in and process and decide what to do about (or not do about), all the time, every day. So…why shouldn't the systems we interact with be structured in the same way?
In this hands-on workshop, Laine and Josh will explain event-driven architecture, and why it's different from traditional monolith and also microservice architecture. They'll explain the pros and cons, and go over some of the technology that's currently out there to implement systems in this more customer-centric way.
They'll also explain more in depth how the serverless model of implementing architecture is especially helpful for accomplishing the goal of event-driven architecture, and then lead you through a workshop that ties it all together using Knative on a Kubernetes cluster (OpenShift).
Event-Driven Architecture and Serverless Workshop
Tuesday, 5:00 PM EST
The world around us exists as a collection of events - things that happen and data points that we take in and process and decide what to do about (or not do about), all the time, every day. So…why shouldn't the systems we interact with be structured in the same way?
In this hands-on workshop, Laine and Josh will explain event-driven architecture, and why it's different from traditional monolith and also microservice architecture. They'll explain the pros and cons, and go over some of the technology that's currently out there to implement systems in this more customer-centric way.
They'll also explain more in depth how the serverless model of implementing architecture is especially helpful for accomplishing the goal of event-driven architecture, and then lead you through a workshop that ties it all together using Knative on a Kubernetes cluster (OpenShift).
Governance in the Enterprise: How to See and Set Guardrails that Don't Slow You Down
Thursday, 11:00 AM EST
The hardest parts of technology are people and what they do - so, culture and process. In the center of that is how to determine the right amount of oversight when implementing technology or the processes around that technology. That “right amount of oversight” is typically referred to as “governance.”
In this talk, Josh and Laine will explain that there is no one right answer for the right amount of oversight, but there are some best practices to keep in mind. There are also some ways to make it easier to think and talk about governance as a whole, and to deliberately apply it. They'll also go over what the wrong amounts of governance look like and give some tips about how to try to correct it when you see it.
Not a Cultural Fit: Anatomy of Organization Breakdown
Thursday, 1:00 PM EST
What exactly does it mean to be “not a cultural fit” for an organization? Is it a slightly more polite euphemism for “that person was terrible at their job”? Or maybe, “they had no social skills to speak of”? What happens when it means that it's the organization that's…kind of terrible at their job? What if no one is actually terrible at their job and “not a cultural fit” is a simple statement of fact?
In this talk, Laine and Josh will share the experiences they've collected over the years with multiple organizations, and how the relationship between person and organization can break down. They'll look at why that relationship fails, what it looks like when it's failing, how to salvage it when possible - and when to know it's time to choose something else. They'll also talk about how to find where you DO belong, either within an organization or outside of it.
This session is intended to be mostly discussion, but please also feel welcome if you just want to listen.
Solving Software Delivery Pain: What Hurts and Why it Matters
Thursday, 3:00 PM EST
There is pain inherent in development - monoliths, confusing deployment processes, conflict between dev/ops/business.
IT is hard and the pace of change now makes it even more difficult. Join Josh and Laine as they talk about how focusing on solving this pain can help in a lot of surprising ways - kickstarting DevOps, speeding up product delivery, and even enabling the business as a whole.
How to Technology Good - Tips for Implementation at Scale
Thursday, 5:00 PM EST
Want to bring in [new cool thing X] or [necessary technology change Y] to your company, because you know there's a need for it? GOOD IDEA! Except…now what? If your company is more than about 3 people, how do you explain, enable, and encourage the adoption of this change, especially if it will require some work on everyone’s part?
In How to Technology Good, Josh and Laine will explain how bringing in technology is subject to one of the biggest problems in IT - how to scale it. They'll also talk about tips and tricks for how to be as successful as you can, and the main things to keep track of and watch out for. They'll go through each phase of bringing in new tech, all the way from how to pick your success criteria through what to think about when it comes to maintenance.