Webinar | Best Practices for Governance in DevOps

May 6, 2022

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How do DevOps teams get to a place where an individual contributor Software Developer on a given app team builds a feature, confidently pushes it all the way to production, and does so without the interaction of a senior architect or another human?

Watch this recording to hear real examples of how organizations are using governance and other process guardrails to ensure that deployment pipelines move fresh code at a high velocity, securely, and with high quality.

In this 45 minute session, the presenters share what “Governance” can mean in different situations. Then they dive into three best practices.

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Webinar Takeaways:

How governance with automation can aid in application onboarding and team morale
How deployments can be more secure with standards and automation in place
Ways that governing and automating can drive down costs, and how that allows for more innovation

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Presenter

Author

Laura Vetter

CTO & Co-founder, USA, Evolutio

Laura Vetter is a subject matter expert in methodology and tooling for Monitoring, SRE, and Observability, namely with Cisco Observability, Splunk, AppDynamics, and other Performance Monitoring Tools in the competitive landscape. She is also well-versed in monitoring global SAP ERP landscapes and works with DevOps teams on governance for more secure and quality software deployments. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working in IT Ops and leading large teams, she is exceptionally skilled in understanding how those tools can meet the visibility needs of application-driven, Fortune 500 organizations.

As a CTO and technology transformation visionary, Laura leads strategy for alerting and business-relevant dashboarding demands at scale. She leads a team that helps clients roadmap an observability strategy to mature along the curve, wherever they are in the journey.

Bob Dyksen

Director, Automation, Evolutio

Bob Dyksen is the Director of Automation, leading Evolutio’s practice in the hyper-growth industry of Automation.

With his background in computer science and extensive technical experience in the development of software teams and products, he provides organizations with insight into the vast DevOps landscape, accelerating cloud migration and digital transformation initiatives.

Nick Durkin

Field CTO, Harness

Nick Durkin is Field CTO for Harness, the first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify DevOps processes, including CI, CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, Chaos Engineering, and much more. He is responsible for the organization's worldwide field engineering team, post-sales engineering team, and a portion of product. He previously held technical and executive roles at OverOps, DataTorrent, and Zelle (Early Warning), where he ran critical infrastructure for the United States government. He also served as lead architect on the Department of Homeland Security’s Financial Institution.