A more reliable way to scale where you move fast, and break less. Learn how to structure your business goals to mitigate potential risk, knock down technical debt, and improve processes.
What You’ll Learn
Getting ahead of change before it becomes critical
Identifying change opportunities in people, processes, and code
Designing processes for right now, instead of yesterday/tomorrow
Kick-starting change and facilitating continuous learning
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Slides
Presenter
Suzanne Pherigo, Senior Director of Engineering, DigitalOcean Suzanne Pherigo has been a technology leader for more than two decades. She enjoys growing strong teams that deliver on commitments and helping people use and grow their special strengths and skills.
When rolling out new features for your business, it’s important to have a development cycle that can keep up with rapid iterations and changes. Go beyond setting up Kubernetes clusters to creating a faster development cycle that increases business efficiency, provides comprehensive observability, and enables faster recovery with troubleshooting techniques.
Whether you’re just getting started or are an active user of Kubernetes, this deployment starter kit will help you become productive from day one and focus on your business logic.
What You’ll Learn
How to get the best out of your Kubernetes investment while simplifying operations and controlling costs.
Why it’s worthwhile to build your own custom repeatable stack for specific day-2 operations.
What to consider when building your own Kubernetes starter kit — finding reliable, cloud-agnostic products and tools with predictable costs — for containerization, monitoring, logging, backup, ingress, advanced observability, GitOps, and progressive release.
Resources
Slides
DOKS docs
DOKS quickstart
Kubernetes in minutes, on DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that lets you deploy Kubernetes clusters without the complexities of handling the control plane and containerized infrastructure. Clusters are compatible with standard Kubernetes toolchains and integrate natively with DigitalOcean Load Balancers and block storage volumes.
Working on a big project with a cross-functional team and unsure where to start or which tools to use? Explore project management techniques you can try today to help start, maintain, and finish projects on time.
What You’ll Learn
Project management principles for greater transparency, efficiency, and scalability
Aligning with your team on how you define tasks, stories, bugs, epics, etc. in Jira
Framework for communicating with your team and external stakeholders
Building trust as a great facilitator, liaison, town crier, and cheerleader
Resources
Jira, a popular issue and project tracking software that enables technical and business stakeholders to collaborate effectively.
Jira Software guides and tutorials
Presenter
Megan Milan, Senior Program Manager, DigitalOcean Megan is an avid world and org chart traveler. She’s enjoyed a career in tech as a Program Manager working for Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Engineering teams and strives to add order to chaos daily!
