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Realizing The Benefits Of Container DevSecOps With AWS
Presented by: James Strong, Colin Detwiller, Matthew Garber
Time: Wednesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMAttendees will learn how to set up, harden, & secure a container pipeline in AWS in this workshop using no servers for that pipeline. Please attend, If you’re interested in integrating security and compliance into a container pipeline to realize the benefits of DevSecOps. We will be using these...
Room: CypressTrack: SecurityFormat: PreCompilerLevel: IntermediateLearning Feedback with LEGO: The Building Blocks of Giving and Receiving Feedback
Presented by: Arthur Doler
Time: Wednesday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMYou dread your annual review time. You cringe at retrospectives. You wince in the face of a 360 Review. You don't like feedback - and you're not alone. Receiving feedback is hard, and when we ask for help with it we just get more feedback. On top of that, your brain doesn't like feedback, and it has...
Room: CypressTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewThursday
The Science of Testing
Presented by: Thomas Haver
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMIn the past decade the software development paradigm has shifted to “deliver fast” -- with concomitant frameworks and methodologies to support that emphasis – but without proper consideration of quality. So most teams end up failing fast and hard when development continues beyond a shaky...
Room: CypressTrack: Software QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThe Four Principles of Accessibility
Presented by: Homer Gaines
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMWithin the WCAG 2.1, web-accessible content is broken into four principles collectively referred to as POUR. This acronym stands for Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. These four areas specifically target areas where users have the most trouble when accessing digital content and...
Room: CypressTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateCommon Accessibility Pitfalls: Climbing out, when you fall in.
Presented by: Chris DeMars
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMYou, your users, and Alice from Wonderland have something in common. At one point, everyone has fallen into a hole of perplexity, confusion, and sometimes hysterical madness. Unlike Alice, we can navigate ourselves and our users around the chaotic abyss that we call the web. Shipping inaccessible...
Room: CypressTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThe Human Side to Testing
Presented by: Amanda Perkins
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMWe’re known for breaking things and testing the limits, and patience, of our team and our systems. We advocate for quality in all things and we advocate for the end user. But, none of us actually think about how our varied backgrounds influence what we do and how we test. In this session...
Room: CypressTrack: Software QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bluetooth?
Presented by: Leah Vogel
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMWith the buzz around IoT devices, Bluetooth Low Energy technology has become increasingly popular. Apple's CoreBluetooth has been around since iOS 5, and offers a host of utility APIs. This talk will cover the basics of Bluetooth LE technology and its history and terminology. Attendees will learn...
Room: CypressTrack: MobileFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateLaunching Your Own Free Minecraft Server in the Cloud
Presented by: Oracle (Sponsor)
Time: Thursday 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM(Presented by Todd Sharp, Cloud Developer Evangelist) Have you ever created the perfect Minecraft world and wished that you could share that world with your friends and family that don't live near you? What about customizing every single aspect of the game - mods, difficulty, weather, spawn rates,...
Room: CypressTrack: Sponsor SessionFormat: Sponsor SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewAutomate Mobile Application Testing in the Cloud with Microsoft App Center
Presented by: Aaron LaBeau
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMEvery year new mobile devices are released for iOS and Android. With the list of supported devices growing, testing applications on physical devices is becoming more challenging and costly. In this session, Aaron will review mobile application testing strategies, frameworks, and solutions around...
Room: CypressTrack: MobileFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewGetting started with Kubenetes Policy Development
Presented by: Robert Sirchia
Time: Thursday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PMThis session is designed to get a user started in writing Kubernetes policies in Rust. We will, touch on what is a policy. How we are going to leverage Rust and Web Assembly to write our policy. What tools you will need to develop a policy. Build out a sample policy and test it on a local...
Room: CypressTrack: SecurityFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateFriday
Web A11y Patterns and Pitfalls
Presented by: Robert Cochran
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMThe internet is no longer an optional aspect of modern life. It is how many of us conduct business and maintain relationships. A tool as critical as the internet needs to be usable by everyone. It is our responsibility to create a good user experience for ALL users. This session aims to instill...
Room: CypressTrack: UI/DesignFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewTen Things Every Voice Application Should Do
Presented by: Jeff Blankenburg
Time: Friday 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMIn my experience building dozens of skills for Alexa, and working with hundreds of developers on their own voice applications, I've identified ten specific patterns that are common to the most successful of the bunch. This presentation will cover these ten topics, giving you the insight an...
Room: CypressTrack: UI/DesignFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewChatOps and DevOps: How to Use Comms as Incident Response
Presented by: Pj Hagerty
Time: Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe most important tool in your DevOps toolbox is communication. Without it, nothing can be accomplished, especially resolving incidents when they occur. In this talk, we will discuss how to use a comms platform to tie-in playbooks, integrate the DevOps processes in place, and bring together remote...
Room: CypressTrack: DevOpsFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateThe Super Spectacular Interactive Event Driven Light Show
Presented by: Barry Tarlton
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMThe ability to properly design and implement highly resilient event driven systems is critical in our data centric world. But getting one’s mind around the complex choreography of this data driven architecture can be absurdly difficult. By using a Raspberry Pi Kafka Cluster, light bars, and...
Room: CypressTrack: ArchitectureFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateMoving Massive Mountains of Magnificent Data
Presented by: Barret Blake
Time: Friday 2:45 PM - 3:45 PMData over here. Data over there. These days there are massive piles of data everywhere. Companies use many different systems. Those systems need to interact and share data to be useful. But how to get that data from place to place? Most of the time, what's built in to these various systems doesn't...
Room: CypressTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview