My picks for AllDayDevOps
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Published: 2020-11-09 16:45:55

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[AllDayDevOps 2020](https://www.alldaydevops.com/) is happening in 24 hours from now!
It's packed with content and choosing the talks to attend isn't a trivial task.
That's why I decided to compile my own recommendations list.

So here they are - 14 talks to attend at AllDayDevops!

1.
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
**Managing Systems in an Age of Dynamic Complexity**
Laura Nolan, Slack
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I like the title of this talk. And I believe folks at Slack know a thing or two about how we work and collaborate.

2.
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
**Bullet-Proof Coding : Adaptive Collaboration for Resilience**
Anton Weiss, Otomato Software
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Regretfully my own talk occupies the same time slot as Laura's presentation. So you have to choose :)

3.SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
**Site Reliability Engineering: Anti-patterns in Everyday Life and What They Teach Us**
Jennifer Petoff, Google
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It's time we hear from Google about how not to SRE.

4.
MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE
**The Past, Present, and Future of Cloud Native API Gateways**
Daniel Bryant, Ambassador Labs
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I love Daniel's presentation skills and API gateways/service meshes/smart proxies are all such exciting technologies!

5.
 
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION

**Using DevOps Principles to Measure Value Flow**
Helen Beal, DevOps Institute
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Helen is a great speaker and DevOps without measurements is like a fish without water.

6.
KEYNOTES
**Ask Me Anything Keynote: DevSecOps**
John Willis, Red Hat and Shannon Lietz, Intuit
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John is one of the godfathers of the DevOps movement and a great speaker. Ask him anything about DevSecOps - do that!

7.
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

**The Unmonitored Failure Domain: Mental Health**
Jaime Woo, Incident Labs
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If you don't monitor your team's mental health - little else matters.

8.
KEYNOTES
**Ask Me Anything Keynote: Chaos Engineering**
Casey Rosenthal, Verica / Nora Jones, Jeli
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Chaos engineering is one of the more compelling topics in modern IT. Nora and Casey are both definitely the right people to ask anything about that.

9.
MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE
**Service Mesh Past, Present, and Future with Envoy Proxy and WebAssembly**
Idit Levine, Solo.io
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Idit is my super-talented compatriot and the work solo.io have been doing with WebAssmebly and Envoy is pushing the industry forward!

10.
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
**Fast & Simple: Observing Code & Infra Deployments At Honeycomb**
Liz Fong-Jones, honeycomb.io
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Honeycomb is one of the more interesting stars on the observability sky. 

11.
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
**Doing DevOps With Deming**
Ken Muse, Wintellect
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How does one do DevOps without Deming?!?!

12.
MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE
**Solving the Service Mesh Adopter’s Dilemma**
Lee Calcote, Layer5
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Lee is a great presenter and knows service meshes like nobody else does. Layer5 ftw!

13.
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
**0 to SRE: Lessons from a First-Year SRE**
Reginald Davis, Elasticsearch
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Getting started with SRE is definitely harder than it sounds.

14.
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
**Gatekeeping and the DevOps Revolution: We Haven't Always Known Everything**
Kat Cosgrove, JFrog
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Gatekeepers - do we really need them? Kat is a great speaker and she'll provide the answers.

Those are my picks - and what are yours?