John Willis has worked in the IT management for over 40 years. He is researching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Previously, he was an Evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of Training & Services at Opscode, where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Additionally, Willis founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner specializing in Tivoli technology deployment. As an author, Willis has written six IBM Redbooks on enterprise systems management and four books for IT Revolution, including the DevOps Handbook. He is working on his latest book, The Operational History of Generative AI.

Presentations

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Anatomy of an LLM from one of the Godfathers of DevOps

John offers a deep dive into the intricacies of tuning and augmenting Large Language Models (LLMs and RAGs). Gain a comprehensive understanding of the current Generative AI landscape, encompassing vector databases, LLM orchestration, foundational LLMs, and testing and observability. Stay tuned for live code demonstrations; I hope the demo gods are on our side!

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Innovating Software Delivery Harnessing Generative AI in DevOps and DevSecOps

 This workshop explores the integration and impact of generative AI tools in DevOps and DevSecOps. We aim to comprehensively understand how tools like Large Language Models (LLMs), LangChain, LangSmith, and vector databases  (RAGS) can be effectively utilized in modern software delivery and security practices.

 

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Investments Unlimited - A Novel

IT Revolution published a new novel based on The Phoenix Project narrative in September 2022. It’s about an investment bank dealing with DevOps, DevSecOps, and IT Risk. John as co-author of this bestseller will share with the story behind the book and how it was created.d. it was created.. It’s about an investment bank dealing with DevOps, DevSecOps, and IT Risk. 

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The Divine and Felonious Nature of Cyber Security - A DevSecOps Story

 

 

 In DevSecOps, the motivation is to embed security patterns and practices into existing DevOps capabilities thereby creating a similar equilibria with increased organizational performance.  In this session we are going to observe the IT security practices over the past 10 years that one might suggest have had a metaphorically “felonious” narrative based on the resultant outcomes.

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15x

DevOps State of the Union

Join John Willis for a DevOps State of the Union.

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14x

Devopsing the Operating System

Over the past few years there has been a strong adoption to containerization as a acceptable model for mass compute consumption.  With this adoption there has been a trend more and more to create single purpose operating systems. 

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Containerization in Production: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

This panel will discuss the changing containerization landscape, the challenges and requirements of using containerization in production, and what's in store in 2015.

Panel Moderator

- John Willis

Panel Members

- Bryan Cantrill
- Tom Hockin
- Kelsey Hightower
- Jerome Petazzoni
- Adrian Otto

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