In this session we will touch on tools and techniques to create a fluent flow of information between Dev and Ops teams and realise the DevOps dream. We will try to answer a few questions like: What are the critical features to look for in tools and how these play in streamlining processes? Is it possible to satisfy compliance and regulation requirements with a fast delivery process? Why feedback is critical to avoid a crippled DevOps implementation?

Giulio is a veteran of IT industry and an internationally recognised expert on DevOps with awards like Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. He shares at conferences and user groups his experience, gained by working on international projects for a variety of industries, with a predilection for the banking and financial sectors, and currently works at BuildIt@Wipro Digital helping customers in succeeding on their Digital Transformation initiatives.

All of us have experienced a disastrous Big Bang release. A Big Bang release is one where dozens of features and changes are deployed simultaneously. A disastrous Big Bang release is one where a minor bug in one of those dozens of PRs causes a catastrophic outage. This leaves us with no choice but roll the whole thing back, leaving our product team disappointed and customers angry.

In this talk we distill the key lessons we have learnt on our journey form Big Bang hell to a truly automated CI/CD process with independently deployable micro services. Come along if you are interested to hear how AWS (and services such as ECS), Rest Microservices, Spring Boot, Docker, Jenkins and Datadog helped save our weekends!

Building a next generation cyberdefence system that avails of several automation and configuration management systems to create a defence systems against cyber attacks and enables the victim to interact with the attackers.

This is the story of how we built a highly available data pipeline that processes terabytes of network data every day, making it available to security researchers for security assessment and threat hunting. Building this kind of stuff in the cloud is not that complicated, but if you have to make it near real-time, fault tolerant and 24/7 available, well... that's another story. In this talk, Luciano and Domagoj will tell you how they achieved this ambitious goal and how they missed a few good nights of sleep while trying to do that! Spoiler alert: contains AWS, lambda, elastic search, monitoring, alerting & more!

Luciano Mammino
Luciano is a software engineer born in 1987, the same year that “Super Mario Bros” was released in Europe, which, by chance is his favourite game! Luciano started coding early at the age of 12, hacking away with his father's old i386 armed only with MS-DOS and the QBasic interpreter and he has been professionally a software developer for more than 10 years. Luciano is currently a Solution Architect at Vectra AI in Dublin where he's working on automating the hunt for cyberattackers and speeding-up incident response. Luciano loves the fullstack web, Node.js and Serveless so he co-authored the book "Node.js design patterns", launched fstack.link (a semi automated newsletter for Fullstack developers) and Serverlesslab.com (in-house serverless training).

Domagoj Katavic
Domagoj Katavic (Principal Software engineer at Vectra) is a technology enthusiast coming from Split, Croatia. From his early days, Dom has enjoyed playing with technology, starting with programming robots in PBASIC, to gesture recognition and tinkering with FPGA. Dom has always liked programming so his first job was building a cloud editor Codeanywhere and teaching programming at a local university. Now he is a Software Engineer at Vectra AI where he is making the hunt for cyber attacks as easy and automated as possible.