Evolving your Infrastructure for Scale - Louis Dunne

Choosing & building the appropriate infrastructure to run your applications in production can be a daunting task. Typically we revisit previous choices as we approach different scales. In this talk we'll cover the two architectures we've been through at Workday so far and speak about our third major architectural change as we ramp up to larger numbers of servers and users. Topics will include: deployment, configuration management, automation tools, build & test pipelines, immutable infrastructure.

Louis Dunne is a Principal Software Engineer at Workday where he spends most of his time trying to automate the world. Louis has decades of experience in the software industry. Much of his early career was spent in Silicon Valley churning out code in the dot-com boom. He now focuses on developing automation systems and generally trying to inject more Dev into DevOps.

Networking as Code - Amanda Galligan

The biggest problem with network configuration historically involves a human entering one "network instruction" at a time and, obviously, executing these changes in real time. Imagine being able to tell your devices "I do not care about your current state, I want you to look like this”. This talk will cover how we are automating network management by leveraging software practices such as QA and CI. In addition, how, by employing YANG and NETCONF based tooling we are able to model and describe (at a high level) a change-set whilst hiding away the specific device commands.

Amanda Galligan has spent over 15 years herding packets on very large scale networks, she’s a Senior Network Engineer with Workday and all-round network automation fiend.

The Advantage of Web Sockets in Real Apps - Victor Millan

Victor will give us a history of web sockets, pros & cons of the technology and the necessity of using web sockets with big data with a demo of a real implementation.

Victor is an Electronic Engineer by trade working in Workday as a Senior Engineer. He's a Java & Javascript lover and an active member of the Node.JS community.