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The 2019 National DevOps Conference, hosted at the world-renowned British Museum, was another great success this year, playing host to 350 attendees, 50 speakers, and, with many vendors and sponsors coming from around the world \u2013 was a plethora of limitless DevOps information!<\/p>\n

Rounding off with a great presentation from Dave Hahn, Netflix<\/a>‘ manager for cloud operations and reliability engineering \u2013 the conference featured 44 practical presentations, 8 keynote speakers and 6 workshops.<\/p>\n

The National DevOps Conference brought together professionals and individuals from the world of DevOps to interact, network and discuss what it means to be a part of the new wave of the overlapping Development and Operations communities.<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers included experts from companies such as the BBC<\/a>, Netflix<\/a>, IBM<\/a>, Zurich Insurance<\/a>, the Institute of Physics<\/a>, Hotels.com<\/a>, Verizon<\/a> and Container Solutions<\/a>, among others \u2013 and the end of each day saw a lively Q&A session where delegates had the opportunity to put to the panel any burning questions they might have had.<\/p>\n

The two-day event was an excellent opportunity for delegates, speakers and exhibitors alike to network, meet new clients, learn new information and discover more about the needs and future of this ever-growing community.<\/p>\n

Attendees of the 2019 National DevOps Conference said:<\/h3>\n

“We got to connect with most of our customers that we already work with, but they were amazed to see what we are presenting\u2026 which was a good thing!” Akshay, manager, cloud and infrastructure services, Wipro.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m enjoying it a lot, met a lot of great folks, made a lot of good business insights. People are doing a lot of really interesting things here, so it\u2019s really good to see that\u2026 We\u2019ve taken away a couple of insights that we definitely didn\u2019t have coming here, like data centres and data redundancy, multi-zone availability and things.\u201d Taylor Otwell, Linode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We came last year, we really enjoyed it and we found the talks really interesting. There are some really interesting people to speak to and a lot of people who want to understand about the future of DevOps and what we can do. I think it\u2019s really great that you have a lot of really interesting companies here as well, not just speakers, but vendors as well who can explain where the future’s going and how it can help.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s been some really great Q&A panels I found interesting, obviously that\u2019s where you can ask the best questions and ask what\u2019s been happening throughout the day and I think all the best stuff comes at the end of the day\u2026 The BBC talk that I went to yesterday, that was really, really interesting.” James Dobson, Container Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“My talk was about dashboards and culture and how if you want to get the Dev and the Ops teams talking together, and one way in which they can think the same way, and how one way in which you can do that is through dashboards\u2026 The talk was about one way of bringing them together and then some of the consequences of how it changes people\u2019s behaviour, so the Dev guys are more understanding of the Ops teams and vice-versa \u2013 so the friction goes and things just run a lot nicer\u2026 What I\u2019m looking for is some insight into what other people are doing and thinking about our tools and our open source things and bring them here, showcase them and just get people interested.” Steve Poole, IBM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s always something you don\u2019t know, there\u2019s always something you miss, there\u2019s always something you can learn from, and I think as long as you can keep on learning, that\u2019s always part of staying relevant to what\u2019s happening in the wider world\u2026 I was talking about DevOps and Agile have some cultural similarities\u201d Rick Alan from Zurich Insurance<\/a> on what brought him to the conference.<\/p>\n

Mark Bentley \u2013 speaker on The Human Journey to Create High Performing and Agile DevOps Teams, and Agile Coach for Airbus<\/a>, said: \u201cI\u2019m really passionate about sharing with other people, and all these different companies, we\u2019re all trying to solve different problems and the more we share with each other, the more chance we have at succeeding. My talk is about how you take people on that journey and how you really create a learning culture to really help people. There\u2019s a lot to learn in DevOps and in Agile and it’s just about creating the time and space in an organisation to help people to learn.<\/p>\n

When asked what brought them to the event, Matt King from Marsh & McLennan<\/a>, said: “We are still trying to find our feet in this space, in the infrastructure space and we\u2019re trying to drive elements from the infrastructure side. But we are also aware of lots of advocates around business, who are perhaps more from the developers’ side, and we are just trying to hook up the two in our organisation and this is a good opportunity to learn what our peers are doing and learn how people are achieving it and understand where we\u2019ve got similar problems.”<\/p>\n

Whilst Alan Carse from the same company, said: “It\u2019s understanding what our peers are looking at from a DevOps perspective and what challenges they\u2019ve had along the journey. Seeing what tooling we need to look at from an automation perspective\u2026 Just understanding what\u2019s going on in the industry.”<\/p>\n

Robert Adams from OutSystems<\/a>, when asked about his best points at the conference, said: “Having chats with people, hearing about their pinpoints, their use cases, it validates us and it\u2019s interesting to hear situations and having that tick box to be able to say, wow, we\u2019d be a great fit… Also, just hearing what other people are doing. I think we will be coming back next year\u2026 I saw the talk about microservices, I got drawn into it and it was great to hear.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to all those who attended, delivered talks or exhibited – we can’t wait to see you all next year!<\/p>\n

Grace Barnott Palin<\/em><\/p>\n