Open Source

Serverless at the Edge

Utilizing Content Delivery Networks is widely accepted best practice, moving the expensive content calls closer to Users in order to boost performance. Leverage the underutilized power of these machines to deliver blazing response times geo-located to your users. We will explore deploying our own edge "serverless" clusters via Lamda@Edge and explore OpenSource options for this infrastructure.

About the Presenter

Innovative JavaScript evangelist and 3 time OSN speaker. Jay helps developers and clients navigate the thorny and tumultuous landscape of emerging technologies and best practices. Increasingly engaging in DevOps and Infrastructure planning and support.

React Unit Testing with Jest & Enzyme

Congratulations! You’re building a sweet new web application with React. But what are you doing for unit testing? Setting your environment up for JavaScript unit testing can be intimidating. React tooling is phenomenal though, and makes setup a breeze. In this session, we’ll look at how to get started writing tests for your React app. We’ll dig into the features of Jest as a test-runner and test framework. Then we’ll take a look at Enzyme, a framework for testing your React components directly. Finally, we’ll look at guidance and best practices. What should you test? When should you test it? How can you keep your React code friendly to unit tests? You will leave this session ready to cover your React app with tests.

About the Presenter

Steven Hicks is a full-stack web developer with nearly 20 years of experience. He believes in clean, readable, and maintainable code. Steve likes to use the right tool for the job, especially if the right tool is JavaScript. He strongly believes that if you ain't falling, you ain't learning.   Steve embraces continuous improvement and believes that a developer's job is to solve problems, not just write code. When he isn't talking to the duck or playing with his kids, you can find Steve at a triathlon, on his mountain bike, or in a climbing gym.

Branching out with Elm: FUNctional programming for your frontend toolkit

Elm is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript. While functional programming can feel and sound intimidating, Elm creators and maintainers have made it a priority from the beginning to make it easy and fun to get started. Elm offers so many benefits: Clear, helpful documentation and a thorough get-started guide. Amazing tooling. Elm’s compiler offers the world’s most helpful error messaging. Really. No run-time errors! Clear architecture that makes it easy to maintain the structure as your app grows. A wonderful, supportive and inclusive community. Understanding Elm’s Architecture is a GREAT way to gain a deeper understanding of JavaScript and React (for me, studying Elm was the key to my understanding React). In this talk, I’ll offer an introduction to Elm. We’ll play in the Elm REPL to go over key concepts of the core language (values, functions, and tuples...oh my!), and go over the Elm Architecture. Then we’ll walk step-by-step through installing and building a simple user interface with Elm. Come and play with this powerful language that is quickly gaining many fans for its simplicity, performance and a great community.

About the Presenter

Lauren is a Software Engineer with ITM/TwentyFirst in Minneapolis. She's a relentless learner, frequent dabbler in new technologies, and a Jane-of-many-trades. She brings a unique combination of experiences from the sciences, arts and customer service to her new-found and beloved career in software development. In the winter, you can find her skijoring with the world's best dog, Lucy.

Introducing Syr: Lightweight Native Engine for JavaScript Apps

Derek and PayPal together invented Syr. A distilled React Native API, with a lightweight implementation, aimed at shared experience developers (SDK developers). Syr allows React-Nativeisque apps to go places they couldn't have gone before, and supports internalization to ensure that SDKs you build with Syr are as portable as they would be if it was 100% native code.

About the Presenter

Derek has been working in finance based technology positions for the last 2 decades. He has extensive experience with platform work, having worked on WebOS Televisions for LG Electronics. His deep passion for developer workflow, and tooling. He currently works with PayPal and engagement experiences, providing merchants SDKs built on the latest technologies across all platforms.

Hacking the Human Perception

Hacking you say? Yes, I do, but this type of hacking has nothing to do with hooking in Matrix style or surfing through The Gibson at Ellingson Mineral Company. Nope, this type of hacking involves how we as developers, create the illusion of fast load times for our Web applications. Performance is gaining much visibility in the industry and catering to the needs of the user, there are many things we can do to facilitate that need. This talk will focus on ways we can make things appear to be faster than they are and ways to avoid having to play Houdini entirely.

About the Presenter

Chris DeMars is a UI developer first, UX architect always, working out of Detroit, Michigan. Chris is also an instructor, teacher assistant, and volunteer for the Ann Arbor chapter of Girl Develop It and co-organizer for the Ann Arbor Accessibility Group. Chris loves coming up with solutions for enterprise applications, which include modular CSS architectures, performance, and advocating for web accessibility. When he is not working on making the web great and inclusive you can find him writing blog posts, watching horror movies, drinking the finest of beers, or in the woods of northern Michigan.

Responsive and Progressive Web Application Journey

This talk will start from a strategic direction that you need to take on native app versus mobile browser application. We will discuss the path that we took at virtuwell to design and develop a responsive website from two separate consumers facing websites (desktop and mobile). We will see how the journey of decaffeinating CoffeeScript to Typescript and purging old JavaScript libraries helped not only in the efficiency of delivering web pages to QA but also in decreasing the overall page load time. Migrating from old AngularJS 1.2 to robust component-based AngularJS 1.6 was one of the early decisions that we took. We will share the lessons learned on how we fine-tuned and optimized the website for several browsers, tablets, and also mobile devices with AngularJS and Grails. We will see why we pushed all marketing related landing page, website, and blog contents to a separate container. We will discuss how unit testing front end and back end code helped us and share how we track conversion using GTM and fix issues by using black-boxing and custom messaging. Virtuwell is 24/7 online clinic that helps customers get treatment plans for everyday illnesses and has doubled its user base year over year for the past 8 years. Lastly, we will dive into why scalability is critical for mobile applications.

About the Presenter

Senthil Kumaran is currently serving as Senior Manager Web and Mobile Services for Virtuwell, a HealthPartners company. He is a pragmatic leader, architect, designer and developer in Web and Mobile technology in developing Internet, e-commerce, and multi-tier client-server applications including healthcare, highly secure financial applications, manufacturing, retail, and consumer websites. He is part of HealthPartners AI and Machine Learning and Enterprise architecture group and a key contributor to the HIPPA/HITEC security and a conference presenter on Predictive Data Analytics, Rules and Web/Mobile initiatives. He is passionate about investing in both stocks and real estate and spends a lot of time analyzing cricket matches around the world. He received his MBA from St Thomas University in Minneapolis and Masters in Electronics Engineering from Bharathiar University in India.

The State of OSS and .NET

For a long time, Microsoft wasn't known for embracing OSS. Remember when their CEO called Linux a "cancer"? This hostile view on OSS from Microsoft was prevalent for years, but in recent history, things have changed. In this presentation, I'll cover the history of OSS and Microsoft, where things stand today, and where things may go in the future.

About the Presenter

Jason Bock is a Practice Lead for Magenic (http://www.magenic.com) and a Microsoft MVP (C#). He has over 20 years of experience working on a number of business applications using a diverse set of frameworks and languages such as C#, .NET, and JavaScript. He is the author of ".NET Development Using the Compiler API", "Metaprogramming in .NET", and "Applied .NET Attributes". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. He is a leader of the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com). Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his website at http://www.jasonbock.net.

Talk Over Text: Conversational Content Strategy and Usability

With the ongoing explosion of conversational interfaces in the form of chatbots and voice assistants, a concomitant revolution is happening in content strategy, information architecture, and user experience for conversational experiences. Conversational content throws several wrenches in the web-based content paradigms that have been essential to our current understanding of content and how to manage it. Just like the wholesale transformation of content from print to web, we are witnessing a similar transition where marketers are increasingly freeing content from the confines of the website. But conversational content is inherently different from web-based content and comes with distinct concerns. For instance, conversational content tends toward single, contained utterances rather than the long-form prose found on websites. It is organized differently too, with unidirectional guided flows favored over reference-rich links. From a usability and accessibility standpoint, voice assistants and chatbots pave opportunities but present obstacles. In this session, we'll talk about how to handle conversational content, with the help of real case studies in the wild: how to write, model, manage, and organize it; how to perform usability tests on conversational content; and how to ensure your information architecture works for both web and conversational cases. We'll also talk about content reusability when you don't have the luxury to distinguish two separate channels for content. Here's what we'll cover: * A brief history of zero user interfaces 
* Web-based versus conversational content
 * Information architecture: Decision flows, not navbars
 * Content strategy: Constructing conversational content
 * Content differentiation vs. content harmonization
 * The curious case of Ask GeorgiaGov 
* Content auditing: Preparing for an omnichannel content strategy 
* Handling calls to action and hyperlinks 
* User experience: Dialogues, not dialogs 
* Guided decision flows vs. traditional visual interfaces 
* Aural usability testing with retrospective probing
 * Epilogue: Conversational content in the omnichannel context

About the Presenter

Preston So has been a web developer and designer since 2001, a creative professional since 2004, and a Drupal developer since 2007. As Director of Research and Innovation at Acquia, Preston leads new open-source and research initiatives and helms Acquia Labs, the innovation lab featured in the international press.   Previously, Preston managed the Entertainment Weekly website and led its development team at Time Inc. (now Meredith). He also contributed to the Spark initiative in the Drupal project, co-founded the Southern Colorado Drupal User Group (est. 2008), and operated an award-winning freelance web and print design studio. In addition, Preston directed the most recent redesign of The Harvard Crimson's online edition, producing the first student-designed responsive college newspaper website in the Ivy League. Preston has presented keynotes at conferences on four continents in multiple languages and speaks around the world about diverse topics such as decoupled Drupal, front-end development, user experience, open-source innovation, and emerging technologies. Preston is also the lead organizer and co-founder of Decoupled Drupal Days, a yearly conference in New York.

How to make your first contribution to Node.js and what to do next

I attended a Code & Learn in Vancouver at the Node.js Interactive North America conference and learned how to make my first contribution to the Node.js project - and l want to share that information with our MPLS tech community! I'll go through a short demonstration of how to get set up, submit your first PR, and what to do next.

About the Presenter

Casie Siekman is a software developer based in Minneapolis. She graduated from Prime Digital Academy in July of 2015 and went on to work there until September 2016. She has been with SDG ever since. She is passionate about making the Minneapolis tech community more diverse and accessible to all.

To Vector or not to Vector, that is the Question

In this talk, we will discuss the whys, whens, and hows of implanting vector images. At code42, we decided to use vector images across all our product websites. We will cover what we learned via use cases, edge cases, best cases, and worst cases and take an in-depth look at the anatomy of vector images.

About the Presenter

I'm passionate about creating well-crafted, visually engaging and highly usable digital experiences. I have 10+ Years in web design & development at advertising and digital agencies, plus a number of years running my own consultancy. I also bring an extensive background in design that has proven invaluable when contributing to the design process and communicating with creative teams. Currently, I'm a WordPress consultant extremely active in the WordPress community. I regularly attend and speak at local Wordpress Meetups. My hope is to give back to a community that has shared so much knowledge with me.

Drama-Free Decisions in Software Development Teams

For a profession that is built on the cut and dry foundation of 1’s and 0’s, software development can involve a surprising amount of drama around decisions. Decisions involving a few people on a team, like “How much unit test coverage should be required for a build to pass?” can derail standups for weeks on end. Architectural decisions, like “Should we use a process or event-driven messaging strategy?” can drive teams needing to collaborate with each other to circle their wagons and never talk again. Worst of all, unsuccessfully presenting a technical question to by non-technical stakeholders can leave you thinking “they’ll never get it”. That “us vs. them” mentality can eat away at and kill the success of any project. None of these decisions should be that dramatic. What gives?

About the Presenter

Martin Hertz is a leader in the engineering group at Jamf, where he supports multiple delivery teams. He has about 17 or so years of professional experience, including roles as developer, architect, process expounder, and manager. He has always approached people, product, and process challenges from the perspective of “how can we do this better?” He has been fortunate to learn over the years from smart coworkers, mentors, and his mistakes.

Great Expectations: A Secure Software Story

Everything we do is based on some expectation of a particular result. Do you know what is expected of you? Are expectations related to security, resiliency, and quality clearly articulated? When writing the story about secure software, expectations are critical; and clearly communicating them is just as critical. Security needs to be intertwined throughout the software development process with clear expectations and measurable goals. When we have a process that only includes security testing at the end of development; right before production, or even after deployment, what's the expectation? Do we honestly expect to be able to test ourselves secure? It hasn't worked for over a decade, so we need to reevaluate what we are doing.

About the Presenter

Brian Glas has worked in IT for over 17 years and information/application security for the last decade. He started as an enterprise Java developer, then transitioned to helping build an application security program as both tech lead and manager. He later played the role of enterprise architect and did a little incident response and reverse engineering malware for fun. Glas then spent a number of years as a consultant helping clients build AppSec programs, create/update SDLCs, and other related initiatives. He has worked on the Trustworthy Computing team at Microsoft and is currently working at nVisium as the Director of Strategic Services. He was a co-lead for SAMM v1.1-2.0 and the OWASP Top 10 2017.

How to Know What We Cannot Know: Building A Better Data Ingestion System

One of the hallmarks of modern vulnerability management is proprietary formats: specially formatted scan files, locked-down single-scan management dashboards, and other vendor-specific obfuscations that can make actually looking at the generated data very difficult. In the past, NetSPI has tackled this challenge by simply building proprietary .NET objects to represent each vendor's scan data. However, this has several drawbacks: the processes are brittle, requiring updates every time a vendor tweaks their format, and cannot accommodate other plugins our clients might be using. I have led a complete re-architecting of our ETL process, starting with the actual files we ingest. We have built Java algorithms, leveraging Jayway JsonPath and the JSON in Java library that can traverse a variety of file formats with only JSON-based configuration information. This allows us to enable clients to add new fields to their files, which are then ingested into NetSPI's database, without requiring code changes. I will discuss the structure of these algorithms and the key role open source libraries have played in making them robust and reusable, as well as some fun challenges encountered along the way. (Challenges such as using Java rather than Python for unpredictable data processing.) In addition to leveraging open source technology for the algorithmic processing of vendor data, we hope to open source the actual library being used to crawl the files. I will be discussing the process of moving from writing opinionated internal tools to building reusable components for the wider community, and how changing organizational behavior in this way makes the company stronger.

About the Presenter

Elena Palmer is a software developer with NetSPI. She works on backend systems and is obsessed with efficiently mediating client requirements with long-term software maintenance needs. In real terms, this means she spends a lot of time asking, "does it need to work this way?" and "can we make this a reusable component?"

Blockchain App Development with Hyperledger Sawtooth

Blockchains are the beginning of a new information technology revolution. Never before has there been a way to verify information transferred between participants in a network, without relying on some trusted third party. This idea started with Bitcoin, but the coming wave of permission enterprise blockchains will take the concept beyond cryptocurrency to everywhere else people need to trust their data.

About the Presenter

A maintainer on the Hyperledger Sawtooth distributed ledger, responsible for developer tools like SDKs and the REST API, as well as a number of distributed applications built on the platform. Loves blockchains, API design, functional programming, Rust, and Node.js. Will grudgingly write Python upon request.

Building High Performance React Applications

React is built with performance in mind. But when is React slow? In this talk we’ll discuss common bottlenecks in React and when you might be making your program work harder than it should. You will learn practical ways to speed up your real world React applications today.

About the Presenter

JavaScript Engineer consulting at Best Buy. Builder of weird software. Co-Creator of bechdel.io.

Why GraphQL?

If you don't know much about GraphQL, you probably just identify it as the hip, shiny new thing companies are adopting to replace their RESTful APIs. Sure, sure - clients can ask for only what they need in a single request - but is that it? What really makes GraphQL so special? In this talk, you'll be introduced to GraphQL beyond just the usual explanations of the query language and learn why things like GraphQL's introspection and type system make it an enormous advancement in web technologies.

About the Presenter

Chris pairs cause with craft as a senior engineer at Software for Good, a development firm building web and mobile applications for organizations working toward positive environmental and social change. As an OSS advocate he has contributed to various projects in the Ruby ecosystem, formerly working full-time on open source at Red Hat. A native Minnesotan, Chris also enjoys hockey, backpacking, and making pointless connections to Minnesota in conversations.

Advanced Schema Design for MongoDB

The hardest part of moving from a tabular database world to a modern world of objects and JSON is how to model your data. This year at OSN, Matt from MongoDB will take data modeling one step further than prior years and focus specifically on advanced schema design patterns to optimize the ease-of-use and performance of your data access layer and application. 

About the Presenter

Matt is a Principal Solution Architect at MongoDB with extensive experience helping more than 1000 customers across industries solve business problems with technology. His particular focus these days is on guiding enterprises in digital transformation enabled by technologies areas such as cloud, microservices, agile development, automation, and big data. Before MongoDB, Matt grew Progress Software’s Apama Algorithmic Trading and Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platform business in North America and sold broader real-time streaming and operational intelligence solutions. He previously worked for Caplin Systems selling solutions to stream real-time market data over the web to FX and FI portals, and for Sapient providing technology consulting services to Global 2000 clients.

Azure Batch AI for Neural Networks

Do you want to predict customer behavior?  Evaluate the content of a photo or sound? Detect Fraud? Feed usage data back into your algorithms to improve them automatically? All of these things are being done today using Neural Networks for Machine Learning.  This talk will cover how to use the GPU power of Azure to train a Neural Network and how to turn that Neural Network into a REST service hosted in Azure. The topics covered include: • A brief overview of Neural Networks 
• Azure Batch AI 
• Azure Data Science Virtual Machines 
• Python in Azure Web Apps You'll leave with an understanding of how to use Azure to train and host your neural networks. TARGET AUDIENCE: Developers, Devops, Data Scientists, Architects

About the Presenter

Software Development is my passion. I have almost 20 years of experience using Microsoft tools to develop software. Currently, I am the Principal Cloud Architect at Safenet Consulting, where I get to do what I love... Architect, Design, and Develop great software! I currently focus on Microservices, SOA, Azure, Neural Networks, and HoloLens.

Platform Architecture for Omnichannel Retail

How do legacy brick and mortar retailers upgrade their technology and compete in today’s fast-evolving retail landscape? Generally saddled with a vast legacy of thousands of disparate systems, integrating them into a single architecture that drives technical and business strategy seems impossible. However, taking the concept of platforms and tenants and defining a retail architecture around these concepts allows for integrating both the new with the old.

About the Presenter

Joel spent most of his working life coding large-scale software systems for enterprises. Architecture crept into his life as he worked on larger and more complex systems that needed a holistic view of the system and thoughtful planning to function and scale. At the same time, Joel embraced the Agile development movement and learned both the Agile and Architecture trades concurrently. He has worked in multiple industries and companies from startup medical devices, power utilities, health insurance, online banking, call center workforce management, railcar commodity trading, online education, long-haul trucking logistics, and finally, retail. Retail is a space facing massive digital disruption and Joel has served as Chief Architect for Minnesota’s two largest consumer goods retailers, Target and Best Buy. Joel brings a strong Agile and Engineering focused bent to the practice of Enterprise Architecture. Joel has a BSEE from Washington University in St. Louis, a MSNE from the University of Wisconsin, and an MBA from the University of Minnesota.

How Much Freedom is too Much? Balancing the Freedom of Microservices Teams with the Larger Interests of the Enterprise

Microservices works because small vertical teams have freedom to innovate. What matters to the rest of the enterprise and the outside world is the API that the microservice team exposes, whether it works and its SLA. The implementation details, in theory, are private to the team. But how does this work within enterprises? Can a microservice team choose some obscure programming language? What database can each team choose? Clearly, the world of top-down technology and architecture mandates are over. But it could be anarchy if each microservice team chooses completely different stacks. Where is the “box” drawn around each microservice team? Just how much freedom should each team be granted? This session will be an exploration of the tension between giving each team the freedom it needs while promoting enterprise-wide goals of reining in costs, centralization of expertise and allowing for developer freedom of movement between microservice teams.

About the Presenter

Kelly Goetsch is Chief Product Officer at commercetools where he oversees product management, development, and delivery. He came to commercetools from Oracle, where he led product management for their microservices initiatives. Kelly previously held senior-level product development and go-to-market responsibilities for key Oracle cloud products representing nine+ figures of revenue for Oracle. Prior to Oracle, he was a senior architect at ATG (acquired by Oracle), where he was instrumental to 31 large-scale ATG implementations. In his last years at ATG, he oversaw all of Walmart's implementations of ATG around the world.   Kelly has expertise in commerce, microservices, and distributed computing, having spoken and published extensively on these topics. He is the author of three books - APIs for Modern Commerce: Enable Rich Customer Experiences Everywhere (O'Reilly, 2017), Microservices for Modern Commerce: Dramatically Increase Development Velocity by Applying Microservices to Commerce (O'Reilly, 2016) and E-Commerce in the Cloud: Bringing Elasticity to E-Commerce (O'Reilly, 2014). He holds a bachelor's degree in entrepreneurship and a master's degree in management information systems, both from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds three patents, including one key to distributed computing.

WTH is a JWT

Chances are your shiny new single page web application will need authentication. And probably some security and resource access control. But how to integrate all of that in your new React application? How can you ensure that your users only have access to the resources they are authorized to visualize and that they can’t view secure sections by hacking their way in through the console? In this talk, the attendees will learn about the powerful JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and see how they can be used to secure their application.

About the Presenter

Joel Lord is passionate about web and technology in general. In his spare time, Joel shares his findings via his blog Javascript Everything (http://www.javascripteverything.com).
He is currently a developer evangelist at Auth0, is a part-time teacher at the Algonquin College in programming and is involved in various developer communities of the Ottawa-Gatineau area. In his free time, he works on his robots and automates some stuff around the house.

Java EE is now Jakarta EE: What happened? What’s going on? Where is it going?

In fall of 2017 Oracle announced that it was donating the Java EE platform to the Eclipse Foundation under the umbrella project named, Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J). As a result, there are some big changes in store for the Java enterprise platform and community. There is a new standardization process under the auspicious of the Eclipse Foundation, a new set of specifications in the making, and a new brand name for the Java EE platform, Jakarta EE. This is the most significant changes in the Java enterprise platform since it was first introduced almost 20 years ago.

About the Presenter

Richard has more the 24 years of experience as a professional software developer and architect. He has written five books on enterprise Java including EJB, JMS, web services, and software architecture. He has served on the JCP executive committee and multiple expert groups, is the co-founder of OpenEJB and Apache Geronimo, was a Sr. Analyst for Burton Group (aka Gartner), and is a celebrated public speaker. At Tomitribe, Richard is focused on furthering the development of enterprise Java under the Eclipse Foundation and providing support for Tomitribe customers. Richard is dedicated to the future of Tomitribe and the enterprise Java platform. Richard is a philosophile (loves learning) and when not spending time with his wife and four children, can usually be found reading about science or history in a never-ending effort to know more about the world.

Marrying Content and Commerce

How McKesson is architecting for digital transformation with the marriage of content and commerce in our public cloud platforms. We will share how we accomplished this with ElasticSearch, SpringBoot, WordPress, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. In addition, how we're supporting an increased scale in our organization through microservices architecture and polygot platforms.

About the Presenter

Marrying Content and Commerce

How McKesson is architecting for digital transformation with the marriage of content and commerce in our public cloud platforms. We will share how we accomplished this with ElasticSearch, SpringBoot, WordPress, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. In addition, how we're supporting an increased scale in our organization through microservices architecture and polygot platforms.

About the Presenter

McKesson Fellow and VP of Customer Technology, with over a decade of focus e-Commerce technology. He now leads some of the largest e-Commerce sites available in the healthcare industry, supporting a digital transformation of the business.

Elastic APM: Open Source Application Performance Management

Elastic APM lets developers monitor their application performance metrics, spot bottlenecks and drill down to the code lines that are to blame by adding just a few lines of code. Agents for node, python, and ruby are available today. Soon you can also collect client-side javascript traces and because Elastic APM is open source there are more languages coming. Start analyzing both the overall response time and the individual response time of calls in your code with Kibana dashboards and collect uncaught exceptions with an open source Elastic APM. Elastic APM is powered by the Elastic Stack, which means you can easily correlate your application metrics alongside other operational and business data, all in a single place. Getting everything into one place lets you spot, debug, and fix issues quicker, resulting in improved user experience and happier users.

About the Presenter

Michael Heldebrant has been using open source technologies for over 2 decades. He currently works for Elastic as a Solutions Architect. He started with open source in support of his Ph.D. research in Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Michael continues his passion for data exploration, analysis, and bioinformatics by helping harness the value of data with the Elastic stack.

Kubernetes In Action: The Developer Experience

Containers are the next evolution in modern development, enabling organizations to be more agile than ever before. They can write their app once and deploy everywhere, whether dev, test or production. Containers can run on any hardware, on any cloud, and in any environment without modification. In short, they offer a truly open and portable solution for agile DevOps. This session will begin with a short intro to Kubernetes followed by an end to end demo of deploying and testing a Java application in a Kubernetes Cluster with a CI\CD pipeline. We will finish the session with lessons learned and best practices of using containers in production.

About the Presenter

Dave Strebel is a Global Open Source Architect on the Microsoft Global Black Belt team. Dave focuses on containers, microservices, DevOps, and cloud-native applications in the Azure cloud platform. Dave has been working in technology for over 15 years and has a mixed background across application development to infrastructure. Dave is based in Minneapolis, MN and in his free time organizes the MSP Docker Meetup and Azure Meetup.

systemd By Example: service security, sandboxing, containers, telemetry, logging

Become comfortable with the new systemd init system used in Linux distributions to bootstrap the user space and to manage system processes after booting. This exciting tool is already available on your servers. Now is your chance to see examples of service security, sandboxing, container management, metric data collection, and logging aggregation.

About the Presenter

Keith Resar is an Automation Developer with Red Hat and a regular Open Source contributor. He's consulted with dozens of organizations, helping them successfully implement cultural change through the adoption of new technology. With an expertise in cloud automation and container PaaS, he's made deploying applications more accessible throughout the enterprise.

Building an Engineering Culture in Banking

We will discuss the increasing importance of “code” to organizations competing in a rapidly changing business environment.  We will discuss the value of outcome-based thinking, agile, DevOps, and building a learning culture. Here is a video capturing the energy around our latest hackathon:  https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mvnc9syZjWs

About the Presenter

Andy Hakala has been involved in many different avenues of technology for most of his life. Technology as a profession found him in 2006 and he has developed a passion for collaborating with customers to drive outcomes. Andy currently manages an engineering team at TCF Bank which is focused on developing automated solutions around infrastructure as well as helping our internal customers consume these offerings. Andy lives in Minneapolis and enjoys spending time with his family as well as playing as much trumpet as humanly possible.

Building an Engineering Culture in Banking

We will discuss the increasing importance of “code” to organizations competing in a rapidly changing business environment.  We will discuss the value of outcome-based thinking, agile, DevOps, and building a learning culture. Here is a video capturing the energy around our latest hackathon:  https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mvnc9syZjWs

About the Presenter

Jeff Einhorn is passionate about the value of code & leveraging innovative approaches to delighting customers with technology solutions. His twenty-year IT career covers a broad spectrum of industries including healthcare, weather forecasting, financial services, retail, and banking – where he is currently a key IT leader at TCF Corporation. Jeff has led a number of different enterprise-scale technology initiatives over the years across both development and infrastructure teams and now leads the Infrastructure Services group at TCF, driving the adoption of Agile, DevOps & Product practices. Jeff embraces new ideas in his personal life as well, fueling his passion for continuous learning with advanced degrees in Computer Science, and Security Analysis & Portfolio Management. Jeff lives in Minnesota with his wife, Kristi, and their four sons Aidan, Lance, Wyatt, and Trystan.

Creating a DevOps Platform At Target

I will discuss some of the key learnings and success stories discovered in the last three peak holiday seasons. Counter to some of the popular thinking, we'll discuss how a small team centered around building out the patterns and tooling can be successful - and what to avoid.

About the Presenter

Greg Case is a former Java engineer that somehow fell into DevOps as a result of once being sorta kinda good at Maven and Jenkins. He is now a Senior Engineering Manager at Target on the Redsky Platform team, which is responsible for building out the tooling and patterns for deploying the services responsible for powering target.com, and the IOS/Android flagship applications. Always finding new ways of making mistakes.

One Pipeline to Rule them All?

CI/CD is difficult. How often do we forego proper integration and load testing for feature branches because of the complexities in instantiating new pipelines? Concourse CI is an open sourced project that scales with your project and includes automated pipelining primitives to enable you to get your CI setup quickly. Join us as we discuss the complexities of pipelining and how Concourse and Cloud Foundry help take us to the next level of pipeline automation.

About the Presenter

Craig is a Pivotal Platform Architect working closely with customers to ensure they reap the benefits of working with Pivotal. Craig started his technology career 25 years ago as a sales associate for Egghead Software. Since then he has worked with many companies and in just as many roles from developer to application architect. During this time, he also experienced multiple bouts of insanity trying his hand at starting up a few of his own businesses. Whether consulting or working within one of his own companies, Craig has always had a passion for good agile development practices and making sure technology choices are clearly linked to the business need at hand. On the home front, Craig and his wife, Jennifer, have four children: Amanda, William, Johnathan, and Abigail. Hoping to ensure that his children will always be prepared, Craig spends a lot of time volunteering with the Boy Scouts. In what little free time he has left, he enjoys camping with his family, miniature war games, and hand tool woodworking.

One Pipeline to Rule them All?

CI/CD is difficult. How often do we forego proper integration and load testing for feature branches because of the complexities in instantiating new pipelines? Concourse CI is an open sourced project that scales with your project and includes automated pipelining primitives to enable you to get your CI setup quickly. Join us as we discuss the complexities of pipelining and how Concourse and Cloud Foundry help take us to the next level of pipeline automation.

About the Presenter

Brian Byers is a Platform Architect at Pivotal focusing on Cloud Foundry, CI/CD and IoT. He has worked in enterprise IT for over 10 years, primarily in application development, but has been working on networking and computers, in general, his whole life. He currently works to help companies in their quest to deliver better software to production faster. The tools in his toolbelt typically include Cloud Native Microservices, Concourse, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and a dash of DevOps. In his free time, Brian enjoys working on projects around the house and getting outdoors snowmobiling and 4-wheeling with his wife.

From Monolith to Distributed Microservices – an Industrial Example

I was working at a medium company, and they needed a major service redone. During this project, I fell in love with open source solutions (jasminSMS, Docker, dotNET Core, redis) and brought many on board to my company. This talk will discuss selling the risks and benefits of open source in a corporate setting. It will also touch on the challenges it presents for the developer.

About the Presenter

From Bioinformatics to Mobile Development, Rebecca has dabbled in many fields.

You Have Died of Dysentery: Product Thinking for DevOps Projects

Enterprise infrastructure projects can be an Oregon Trail voyage, a path of opportunity but also one full of snakes and cholera. Don’t let your infrastructure projects drown in the river, while application projects get funding to pay for a ferry! We’ll share some basic tips on applying product thinking to get executive buy-in and roadmap prioritization for infrastructure and DevOps so you can reach your destination healthy and safe.

About the Presenter

Jess Richey is a product person and DevOps evangelist. During her career, she has worked as a business analyst, product manager, and product owner. She is passionate about helping teams build the right things.

You Have Died of Dysentery: Product Thinking for DevOps Projects

Enterprise infrastructure projects can be an Oregon Trail voyage, a path of opportunity but also one full of snakes and cholera. Don’t let your infrastructure projects drown in the river, while application projects get funding to pay for a ferry! We’ll share some basic tips on applying product thinking to get executive buy-in and roadmap prioritization for infrastructure and DevOps so you can reach your destination healthy and safe.

About the Presenter

Ben is a software maker who aims to help teams ship impactful products and systems that improve the communities that we serve.

Promoting Open Source Principles Across Your Organization

The growth and success of Open Source software is driven by communities formed around particular technologies and areas of interest. These open, participative communities foster collaborative development of software while setting and adhering to community standards and promoting reuse and rapid iteration. As enterprises look to improve development outcomes they are increasingly looking to Open Source communities and patterns as models for internal development efforts - a practice known as InnerSource.

About the Presenter

Phil Holleran is a MN-based technology enthusiast who also geeks out over coffee, skiing, and cooking. As a GitHubber he works to help companies adopt more open, collaborative software development practices inspired by the work of the open source community.

How C.H. Robinson built an Inner Source Culture around Open Source Practices

Open Source development models have proven themselves successful across thousands of projects utilizing open source code, re-use, distributed engineering teams, and written conversations about change. Across industries, businesses are needing to improve their speed-to-market and delivery quality to compete. These pressures are leading to an evolution of the SDLC towards using proven Open Source techniques internally, as Inner Source. If your team is grappling with these issues or you are currently on your own Inner Source journey, your primary concern and focus should be on culture. After all, you're looking to transform workflows, speed up development lifecycles, and improve delivery - but how can you manage all of this change without angering every engineer, analyst, DBA, or infrastructure, administrator or ops person in your department? In this presentation, Tyler Patterson will summarize the common challenges enterprises face building an Inner Source culture and provide insight on adopting proven Open Source practices to accelerate change while reducing friction. The session will also highlight the Inner Source model and interactions within C.H. Robinson's IT Department as a spark and example framework for any organization adopting Inner Source.

About the Presenter

Who 
I love EDM music. I have 3 cats, Milton, Winston, and Ivan. I don't like IPA's. I watch more video games than I play. I'm obsessed with Home Automation and 3D Printing.
ESFJ | Achiever, Futuristic, Competition, Strategic, Communication What 
I am an Engineering Manager at C.H. Robinson, Co-Chair Advisor to the UW-Eau Claire IS Program and Co-Founder of Agile Twin Cities. Where 
I am from the Midwest. I currently reside in Minneapolis, by way of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio. When 
Born a Millennial and a Buckeye, I graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 2009, joined C.H. Robinson immediately following and haven't looked back. Why 
I believe in people-first leadership and that telling a story is the best way to inspire others to a better tomorrow. https://pattertj.github.io/about/

Maintaining Maintainers

Community based open source projects are a critical part of our industry, and most people agree that they are key enablers to innovation. What is more difficult to reconcile is how to support these projects when their maintainers have split responsibilities between the project and their regular 'day job'. When expectations are missed the results can be ugly. When expectations are clear, maintainers can be powerful forces for good within an organization.

About the Presenter

Maggie Pint is a software engineering lead in Azure's Production Infrastructure Engineering (PIE) organization. Her team makes SRE Incident Assistant - an open source incident management tool that reads from event sources and recommends courses of action that help mitigate incidents quickly. Maggie also coordinates open source and inner source education and incentive efforts in the Azure PIE organization. Outside of her day job, Maggie is a maintainer of the popular JavaScript library Moment.js and the JS Foundation's delegate to TC39 - JavaScript's standards committee. She is passionate about dogs, coffee, the JavaScript language and helping others live open source values in their day to day work. Maggie has extensive experience speaking at events like JSConf EU, CodeMash, Node Interactive, and many local conferences and meetups.

Can You Teach an Old Dog – to Tango?

Merrill Corporation celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2018, having been founded in 1968. It is renowned for being a careful, slow, conservative company, well respected in the document management and communications space in financial and legal communities. But is this enough in today’s marketplace? Merrill Corporation's core business is in the Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) marketplace, but its core software had not seen a new release in many years. Fortunately, its competitors tended to be equally as slow as Merrill Corp., but there was downward pressure on revenue as these competitors fought for market share in the best way they knew how – by lowering prices. In 2017, the leaders at Merrill Corp took a bold step to re-invigorate their core business, by building a true technology product to serve their customers in the M&A space. This involved inventing a new technology stack, based largely on open-source tools, a new set of product management beliefs and approaches, and a completely new way of engaging with software engineering across the organization. While we are only a year into this transformation, there are some hard lessons to be shared, which, we hope, will stop your organization making the same mistakes – or at least give you hope that you are not the first to go through this, and there is hope!

About the Presenter

I have over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, in functions ranging from developer to VP of a large global company. While all of this experience is extremely useful, my real joy is in getting development organizations to deliver products and programs quickly and effectively. I have found that using agile and lean techniques greatly helps in this. I have developed a series of workshops to perform agile training for teams new to agile, as well as for Business Analysts, Project managers, Product Owners, and Executives to get organizations "agile" quickly.

Can You Teach an Old Dog – to Tango?

Merrill Corporation celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2018, having been founded in 1968. It is renowned for being a careful, slow, conservative company, well respected in the document management and communications space in financial and legal communities. But is this enough in today’s marketplace? Merrill Corporation's core business is in the Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) marketplace, but its core software had not seen a new release in many years. Fortunately, its competitors tended to be equally as slow as Merrill Corp., but there was downward pressure on revenue as these competitors fought for market share in the best way they knew how – by lowering prices. In 2017, the leaders at Merrill Corp took a bold step to re-invigorate their core business, by building a true technology product to serve their customers in the M&A space. This involved inventing a new technology stack, based largely on open-source tools, a new set of product management beliefs and approaches, and a completely new way of engaging with software engineering across the organization. While we are only a year into this transformation, there are some hard lessons to be shared, which, we hope, will stop your organization making the same mistakes – or at least give you hope that you are not the first to go through this, and there is hope!

About the Presenter

Ryan Sutter is a software engineering leader with 24 years of experience in professional software development as a developer, architect, manager, consultant, and director.  He is passionate about open source software and has spent his career working primarily with OSS in enterprise environments.  When he is not working at Merrill to help create a cutting-edge SAAS platform, he tinkers with old sports cars, plays various instruments, and hangs out with his wife and four rescue dogs.

From green screens to digital genes: Open source and open community at a 100-year-old company

Over the past 2 years, CWT flipped an 18,000-person enterprise upside-down, turning a travel company with some apps into a software vendor focused on travel. A brand-new product group brought together technologists across the company and around the globe for the first time. 18 months in, I joined to lead the DevOps transformation, aiming to speed time to value, improve customer experience, and increase collaboration. As part of that effort needs quickly surfaced around areas like: * accelerating development through open-source adoption, 
* improving recruitment with open-source contribution, and
 * incorporating inner-source approaches to increase quality and speed. To make those shifts, we drove adoption of a series of new tools — especially around source code and chat. Additionally, I was able to piggy-back onto existing efforts to define an open-source policy, apply a product-centric mindset, and expand that perspective into a cross-functional open-source program office.

About the Presenter

Long time CWT’er at Carlson Wagonlit Travel in Minnetonka, where I am passionate about growing our Community of Practice in DevOps and continues to learn how to work in Operations as a recovering Software Development leader. I am a Hockey Nut ( Minnesota Winters, I make a 1152 SF Ice Cube in my backyard ) and Technology Nut, always want to fix things myself, but get caught with lots of WIP as my 4 kids are my priority, along with savoring our 2 weeks of Summer that I have experienced as a Native Minnesotan.

From green screens to digital genes: Open source and open community at a 100-year-old company

Over the past 2 years, CWT flipped an 18,000-person enterprise upside-down, turning a travel company with some apps into a software vendor focused on travel. A brand-new product group brought together technologists across the company and around the globe for the first time. 18 months in, I joined to lead the DevOps transformation, aiming to speed time to value, improve customer experience, and increase collaboration. As part of that effort needs quickly surfaced around areas like: * accelerating development through open-source adoption, 
* improving recruitment with open-source contribution, and
 * incorporating inner-source approaches to increase quality and speed. To make those shifts, we drove adoption of a series of new tools — especially around source code and chat. Additionally, I was able to piggy-back onto existing efforts to define an open-source policy, apply a product-centric mindset, and expand that perspective into a cross-functional open-source program office.

About the Presenter

Originally from Milwaukee, Wi, I graduated with a BS in Computer Science and later received my MBA, specializing in IT Management. My career started with Java development, crossed through project manager, and landed me in operations. I’ve worked at organizations within the logistics, finance, retail, education, healthcare, and travel management industries. I’ve recently rekindled my love for IT by getting hands-on with my operations team and embracing the DevOps culture within CWT. My personal passions are caring for my growing family and fixing things that don’t need to be fixed.

From green screens to digital genes: Open source and open community at a 100-year-old company

Over the past 2 years, CWT flipped an 18,000-person enterprise upside-down, turning a travel company with some apps into a software vendor focused on travel. A brand-new product group brought together technologists across the company and around the globe for the first time. 18 months in, I joined to lead the DevOps transformation, aiming to speed time to value, improve customer experience, and increase collaboration. As part of that effort needs quickly surfaced around areas like: * accelerating development through open-source adoption, 
* improving recruitment with open-source contribution, and
 * incorporating inner-source approaches to increase quality and speed. To make those shifts, we drove adoption of a series of new tools — especially around source code and chat. Additionally, I was able to piggy-back onto existing efforts to define an open-source policy, apply a product-centric mindset, and expand that perspective into a cross-functional open-source program office.

About the Presenter