Agenda

The format of DevOpsDays Ljubljana includes a single track of 30 minute talks, followed by Ignite talks (5 minute lightning talks).

We spend the rest of the afternoon in Open Spaces, which are considered a key portion of the event.

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• 27. September 2024
• 16:30 Workshop Assemble
• Hands-on workshop for partners and sponsors

• 28. September 2024
• 8:15 Conference Kick-off
• 8:45 Opening Ceremony
• 9:00 Learning from Firefighters to Improve Systems Reliability
• Kerim Satirli - HashiCorp
• In this talk, Kerim explains how the systematic approach of the “Ten Standard Firefighting Orders” can be adapted to a software engineering context, with the ultimate goal of improving operational reliability and, in the case of an outage, limit damage to human operators and (IT) infrastructure.
• 9:45 Gitlab CI language server
• Aleš Brelih - 3fs
• Managing large GitLab CI YAML files can be a daunting task, especially when juggling numerous extends, rules, job needs, and other complex elements. In this talk, I’ll delve into the common struggles associated with these intricate configurations and share a practical solution to simplify your workflow.
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Adopting a cloud strategy for a large enterprise in the automotive industry
• Patrick Koch - AVL
• We began by migrating a single legacy desktop app to the cloud. Now, we’re developing a strategy to migrate all applications and offer 100+ as SaaS. We’ll tackle challenges, ensure cloud-native readiness, leverage Infrastructure as Code, and maintain consistency in our cloud resources.
• 11:30 Give your LLM a left brain
• Stephen Chin - Neo4j
• The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, each of which specializes in different types of tasks. Your right brain excels at imagination, intuition, art, rhythm, feelings, and dreams. Meanwhile, the left brain is more analytical and focused on logic, sequencing, linear thinking, and mathematics. This presentation will explore how knowledge graphs built with factual and updated information can complement LLMs via retrieval augment generation (RAG) to produce more reliable results.
• 12:15 Lunch
• 14:15 Unlock your child's tech potential. An empowering journey awaits!
• Cassandra Chin - The Linux Foundation
• Ignite your child’s tech passion! Discover fun projects, challenge gender biases, and explore diverse tech careers. Even non-tech parents can guide their kids to become future innovators. Let’s build a brighter tech future together!
• 15:00 License to Observe - Why observability solutions need agents
• Dominik Süß - Grafana
• Ever wondered why you need to deploy yet another component just to get data from my application to the observability storage? This talk helps to answer this question and goes into common deployment models and practices for designing the flow of observability data!
• 15:45 Break
• 16:00 Navigating the Convergence of AI and Cloud Native Technologies
• Taylor Dolezal - CNCF
• Hear stories about how organzations think about GenAI, how it is reshaping cloud native workflows, and how CNCF projects are evolving with the demads of new infrastructures. Utilize this knowledge to help you solve your challenges with GenAI and cloud native technologies.
• 16:45 Closing ceremonies & networking