Tag: speaking

  • DevOps Days Minneapolis–Best Practices for Database Deployments

    Thanks to everyone who attended, though with one stage I had a fairly captive audience. I enjoyed the event and look forward to coming back to the Twin Cities in the future.

    A few nice questions, which I’ll address in a few posts:

    • What are feature flags
    • How do feature flags work in SQL?
    • How do we reorder work when we’ve deployed to QA?
    • Is there a way to avoid blame in a retrospective?

    Slides: DevOpsDaysMN_BestPracticesForDatabaseDeployments

    You can also watch the presentation on YouTube:

     

  • The Redgate Summit: New York

    The final 2024 Redgate Summit in the US takes place in a few weeks, on Aug 21. Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape is coming to the Microsoft Office at Times Square in New York City and I’m excited to be going.

    You can register today and join us for a full day of learning about DevOps, database development and management, and how to build better software. We have three tracks, each full of events for the day.

    • New and Future Technologies
    • Deep Dive Solutions
    • Leadership

    We have both Redgaters and industry experts on hand to deliver a wide range of sessions and panels. I’m not sure what I’m doing yet, but I’m sure I’ll be assigned a few of the TBD speaker slots.

    Hopefully you can come enjoy a fun day in Manhattan in a few weeks. Tell your boss you want to learn how to better build and manage database software and head to the City. Then register and say hi to me in a few weeks.

  • DevOps Days Minneapolis

    Once again, I’m off to a conference next week. This time it is DevOps Days Minneapolis. I haven’t been to a DevOps Days event, though I always enjoy DevOps events because the attendees and speakers are very passionate about building better software faster. Some of them have great stories and experiences (and successes), while many also struggle with the same restrictions, priorities, and lack of attention to quality that most of us do.

    In any case, this is a fairly small event, but I like Minneapolis and I’m looking forward to the trip.

    If you’re coming to the event, say hi. If you can’t, there are lots of other DevOps days events coming up.