by Dustin Olsen | Apr 22, 2025 | Conference Updates
Let’s face it – DevOps is full of buzzwords. Every year, there’s a new wave: Platform Engineering. FinOps. GitOps. SRE. Internal Developer Portals. Golden Paths. They sound cool. They might even be the future. But what do they actually mean for your team, your...
by Dustin Olsen | Apr 22, 2025 | Conference Updates
Learn From Successes and Failures at SLC DevOps Days We’ve all been there: The deployment that looked fine until it wasn’t. The migration that hit a wall halfway through. The “simple” automation that accidentally rebooted prod. Sure, we love hearing about clean...
by Dustin Olsen | Apr 22, 2025 | Conference Updates
We love Kubernetes. We love CI/CD. We’ll happily debate the pros and cons of GitOps, Terraform, or your favorite deployment strategy. But let’s be honest: Tools aren’t magic. They won’t fix trust issues between teams. They won’t align priorities across orgs. And they...
by Dustin Olsen | Apr 22, 2025 | Conference Updates
Every year, SLC DevOps Days brings together engineers, leaders, and builders from across industries. We gather to share ideas, sharpen our skills, and discover new tools and practices. But if you’ve ever been to a DevOpsDays before, you know one truth: some of...
by Dustin Olsen | Feb 10, 2023 | Conference Updates
The pandemic put a lot of pressure on existing IT systems. The increased demand and a rapid pace of change caused many systems in the government and private sector to fail. Here are just a few examples: Pandemic and Technical Debt...
by Dustin Olsen | Feb 8, 2023 | Conference Updates
Whether you are new graduate, an experienced Developer, SysAdmin, SRE, or manager, DevOps Days provides an economical and effective opportunity to improve your team’s knowledge of solving complex development, testing, and operational tasks. At DevOps Days...
by Dustin Olsen | Jul 26, 2022 | Conference Updates
Having worked in a PMO at the beginning of my career, and then as a Scrum Master and Program Manager, being a PMO member has been an evolving role. So what happens now,in the context of a DevOps world? Do you go away? If teams self manage, where am I? (I am...
by Dustin Olsen | Feb 26, 2020 | Conference Updates
We are excited to announce that our theme for the 2020 SLC DevOps Days Conference is “Back to BASIC”. Here is what that means to our founding board member, Jason Vance: Since helping to found SLC DevOps Days five years ago, I’ve had the opportunity to travel to...
by Dustin Olsen | Apr 15, 2019 | Conference Updates
You know the story. You worry about technical debt but it seems so abstract. Your organization is following an agile methodology but there are a few steps you tend to skip repeatedly (e.g. mostly testing). Your development team assures you that...
