At LaunchDarkly Galaxy Conference, we'll explore how feature management has enabled some of the world’s leading development teams to achieve continuous delivery, test in production, safely migrate infrastructure, and progressively deliver value to their users. When teams overcome the fear of breaking things have better control over what they put into the world. Join us on April 6th for workshops and certification exams, and on April 7th for a half-day of talks and interactive activities.
What is Trajectory? And who is this for?
Trajectory is a one-day conference for for teams who want to move faster and deliver more, continuously. We've noticed when teams aren't inhibited by the fear of breaking things, they can collaborate more effectively, get feedback and validate ideas sooner, and have a stronger handle on what they're putting into the world. So we are working to bring together teams who are leading the charge for better development and release practices so they can share their learnings and best practices.
What is Space Camp? And who is this for?
Space Camp is a half-day of focused training sessions for LaunchDarkly users. This event will take place on April 8th, the day before Trajectory, and will be hosted at the same location in Jack London Square. Participants will get hands-on experience learning more about best practices and strategies for incorporating feature flags into development processes. We'll also cover topics like managing feature flags across teams through the use of custom roles and permissions, and how to use the relay proxy.
Why are you hosting your own conference?
Yes this is yet another developer conference...or is it? We've seen how quickly the landscape has changed over the past few years. Teams that are continuously delivering are finding best practices and tools that help them move quickly without breaking things. We wanted to create a space where teams can share these learnings and have meaningful conversations.
Is there a Code of Conduct?
All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct.
The LaunchDarkly community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, photography or audio/video recording against reasonable consent, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate. This code of conduct applies to all LaunchDarkly sponsored spaces, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the LaunchDarkly Team.
Some LaunchDarkly-sponsored spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.
Reporting If you are being harassed by a member of the LaunchDarkly community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the LaunchDarkly Team conduct@launchdarkly.com. We will respond as promptly as we can.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. We will not disclose the names of harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
Edith Harbaugh
CEO & Co-Founder, LaunchDarkly
Edith has more than 20 years of experience in product, engineering, and marketing with both consumer and enterprise startups. Most recently, she was Product Director at TripIt and Concur. She holds two patents in deployment from her time in engineering at Vignette. She is a contributing writer to DZone, DevOps.com, and ReadWriteWeb, and she co-hosts the “To Be Continuous” podcast with CircleCI founder Paul Biggar. Edith earned a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.
John Kodumal
CTO & Co-Founder, LaunchDarkly
John Kodumal is CTO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery platform. John was a development manager at Atlassian, where he led engineering for the Atlassian Marketplace. Prior to that he was an architect at Coverity, where he worked on static and dynamic analysis algorithms. He has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in programming languages and type systems, and a BS from Harvey Mudd College.
Emily Freeman
Senior Cloud Advocate, Team Lead,
Microsoft
Emily Freeman is a technologist and storyteller who helps engineering teams improve their velocity. She believes the biggest challenges facing engineers aren't technical, but human. She's worked with both cutting-edge startups and some of the largest technology providers in the world. Emily is currently a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft and a frequent keynote speaker at technology events.
Adam Zimman
VP of Platform & Partnerships, LaunchDarkly
Adam has over 20 years of experience working in a variety of roles from software engineering through to technical sales. He has worked in both enterprise and consumer companies such as VMware, EMC, and GitHub. Adam is driven by a passion for inclusive leadership and solving problems with technology. One additional objective is to be a part of a diverse and equitable company. Not simply an organization that accepts diversity, but one that actively pursues a more diverse and inclusive team as a imperative for building better products and services. Adam is also an Advisor for a number of startups and nonprofits. His perspective on life has been shaped by a background in Physics and Visual Art, an ongoing adventure as a husband and father, and a childhood career as a fire juggler.
James Governor
Principal Analyst and Co-founder, Redmonk
James Governor is a Principal Analyst and Co-founder at RedMonk. Based in London, he advises enterprises, startups and major companies such as IBM and Microsoft on developer-led innovation, community and technology strategy. He is also proud to have open-source nonprofit organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation as clients.
James was co-author of the O’Reilly publication, “Web 2.0 Design Patterns: What Architects and Entrepreneurs Need to Know.” In 2009, he served as Chairman of SAP’s external panel for stakeholder assurance in Sustainability Strategy and Reporting. James makes extensive use of both open source and social media tools in RedMonk’s business operations – @monkchips, has more than 25K followers.
Rich Manalang
Principal Developer Advocate,
LaunchDarkly
Rich is a Principal Dev Advocate at LaunchDarkly. He's a passionate product engineer keenly interested in truly making things simpler. He's spent most of his tech career building useful (and not so useful) products at Trello, Atlassian, Oracle, and PeopleSoft.
Karishma Irani
Principal Product Manager,
LaunchDarkly
Karishma is a Principal Product Manager at LaunchDarkly, who encourages the adoption of feature flags to give users the safety to test new features and infrastructure in their production environments.
In a former life, Karishma launched and managed the infrastructure monitoring product at New Relic. For almost 4 years, she helped enterprise customers make monitoring a seamlessly integrated part of their scaling organizations. At LaunchDarkly she continues to help teams address their biggest DevOps challenges, by encouraging teams to 'Test in Production' using good feature management and experimentation practices. When she's not building or breaking products, she’s drinking coffee, until it’s a socially acceptable hour to drink wine.
Dawn Parzych
Developer Advocate, LaunchDarkly
Dawn is a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly where she uses her storytelling prowess to write and speak about the intersection of technology and psychology. She enjoys helping people be more successful at work and at life. She makes technical information accessible avoiding buzzwords and jargon whenever possible. Dawn has spoken at DevOpsDays, Velocity, Interop, and Monitorama. Her articles have appeared in numerous technical publications. In her freetime she serves as an organizer for Write/Speak/Code, the Seattle DevOps Meetup, and is on the organizing committee for DevOpsDays Seattle.
Liz Fong-Jones
Developer Advocate, Honeycomb
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 15+ years of experience. She is an advocate at Honeycomb.io for the SRE and Observability communities, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
She lives in Brooklyn with her wife, metamours, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in San Francisco and Seattle with her other partners. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights as a board member of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
Danyel Fisher
Principal Design Researcher, Honeycomb
Danyel Fisher's work centers on data analytics and information visualization. He focuses on how users can better make sense of their data; he supports data analysts, end-users, and people who just happen to have had a lot of information dumped in their laps. His research perspective starts from a background is in human-computer interaction, and brings together cutting-edge data management techniques with new visualization algorithms.
Michael McKay
Senior Development Manager, IBM
Michael is the Delivery Lead for the IBM Kubernetes Services (IKS) which is part of the IBM Public Cloud. He has been with IBM for 23 years. Michael's current passion is managing Kubernetes at scale and is a huge proponent of personal and team empowerment.
He married with 4 kids, 1 dog, and 2 cats; Needless to say work is his place for peace and relaxation.
John Feminella
Technical Advisor, ThoughtWorks
John Feminella is an avid technologist, occasional public speaker, and curiosity advocate. He serves as a technical advisor to ThoughtWorks, where he works on helping enterprises transform the way they write, operate, and deploy software. John lives in Charlottesville, VA and likes meta-jokes, milkshakes, and referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.
Olamide Olatunji
Release Manager, Snap Inc.
Olamide (pronounced like oh-happy-day) is a Release Manager at Snap Inc. She is a non traditional engineer with a non-traditional background and is passionate about creating opportunities for other career changers to enter the industry. Release is where Olamide's love for problem solving and her passion for tech innovation intersect. As a release manager, she is focused on optimizing processes for deploying quality code quickly. Developers and external users are her customer. She is passionate about her hobbies such as YouTubing, video editing, and singing. She is probably equally as passionate about finding the perfect show before she starts eating. Olamide means "my wealth has come" and she tries her best to live up to the name, so here's a small promise that you'll leave with a gem from this talk.
Hassan Saab
Software Engineer, Sweetgreen
Hassan Saab is a software engineer at sweetgreen, having been with the company for over a year. At sweetgreen, he contributes across the stack and was a key member of the feature team that came together in 2019 to build and scale native delivery. As part of his responsibility, he architected how the delivery team would leverage feature flags to power a canary release, leading to a successful fleet-wide rollout in 2020. Before sweetgreen, Hassan started his career in investment banking and later on, worked on his own startup called Curiocity, a platform that curates experiences designed to bring people together. Outside of work, Hassan is passionate about producing music + DJ'ing and loves playing "party" games like Quiplash and Mafia with his friends.
Ana Margarita Medina
Chaos Engineer, Gremlin
Ana is a Chaos Engineer at Gremlin in San Francisco, CA. Previously, she worked at Uber as an engineer on the SRE and Infrastructure teams, where she specifically focused on chaos engineering and cloud computing. Catch her tweeting at @Ana_M_Medina about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.
Austin Parker
Principal Developer Advocate, Lightstep
Austin Parker has been solving - and creating - problems with computers and technology for most of his life. He is the Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep and maintainer on the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects. His professional dream is to build a world where we're able to create and run more reliable software. In addition to his professional work, he's taught college classes, spoken about all things DevOps and Distributed Tracing, and even found time to start a podcast. Austin is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Distributed Tracing in Practice, available in early 2020 from O'Reilly Media.
Francesco Crippa
VP of Engineering, Rollbar
Francesco combines his passion for engineering and philosophy to build incredible engineers that can grow and scale as individuals and teams. Prior to Rollbar, where he’s serving as VP of Engineering, he lead big and small engineering organizations for large companies like Cisco and Zillow to redefine and transform their platforms, always providing a best in class developer experience and ergonomic.
Francesco presented many engineering related topics in various conferences around the world consistently for the past 20 years, from opening Keynotes to technical sessions, workshops or as one of the organizer (events like Dreamforce, Cisco Live, JavaOne, RedHat Summit, Enterprise Connect, Linux Tag, Linux Summit, Linux World, PyCon, FudCon and many others).
Rosemary Wang
Developer Advocate, HashiCorp
As an explorer of infrastructure automation and a cloud enthusiast, Rosemary works to bridge the technical and cultural barriers between infrastructure engineers and application developers. She has a fascination for solving intractable problems with code, whether it be helping an infrastructure engineer learn to code or an application developer troubleshoot infrastructure failures. As a developer advocate for HashiCorp, Rosemary interfaces with vendors, clients, startups, and open source projects to find creative software solutions for infrastructure. When she is not drawing on whiteboards, she valiantly attempts to hack stacks of various infrastructure systems on her laptop while foraging for tasty victuals around the world.
Dr. Gautham Pallapa
Global CTO, Business Transformation,
VMWare, Inc
Dr. Gautham Pallapa is a Field CTO for Pivotal, where he works with enterprise customers to transform their strategy, processes, technologies, and culture to achieve their business outcomes. He was previously VP of Engineering at a 35,000 people organization and drove the cultural, agile, and IT transformation of 5 business units and this hands-on knowledge has given him an appreciation for the stress, pain, hard work, and tenacity required to endure these transformational events.
Dr. Pallapa is a Safe Agilist, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, an Agile Coach, and evangelizes business transformations with empathy and generative culture through his articles and presentations.
Kate Green
Software Engineer, Till
I’ve been writing code for over 20 years. It’s a great job that has allowed me to think in such novel ways. I started as a web designer in 1998, took C in college, and spent many years honing my skills while working all over the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. I’ve secured machines, built database applications, done print and web graphic design, and maintained large applications. From there, I moved to the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where I learned to love devops and led front end web development for both newspapers.
After that, I took my newfound DevOps love and moved into automation and testing, where I created larger build pipelines and created robots, dashboards, and whatever else was needed to test our product. Along the way, I learned to look for the big picture and to question the nature of testing. From there, I led an automation and tooling team for a microservices-based travel application. We built the robots, created developer-centric products for the engineers to use, and built and wrote automated tests. My role was a hybrid of team lead, architect, and product manager.
Josh Barr
Lead Portfolio Architect, Xero
I'm Josh, the Lead Portfolio Architect for Ecosystem at Xero. A qualified graphic designer by trade, I made the switch nine years ago to pursue a technology career. Prior to joining Xero, I was a maintainer of the Wagtail CMS, and Technical Director at Springload (a digital agency based in Wellington, New Zealand). I've worked as an educator, designer, developer, team leader, and architect, with financial institutions, airlines, startups, and civics organizations.
John Feminella
Technical Advisor, ThoughtWorks
Enterprises often suffer from a curse of accumulated risk. The applications they're building are large and complex, and thus need a lot of risk management process, which means releases take longer — which makes them riskier, and we're back where we started. What can we do to break out of this deadly, self-reinforcing feedback loop?
In this talk, John will explore how combining key ideas from Progressive Delivery and observability lead to better, more resilient releases for teams of all sizes. In particular, John will cover how combining intelligent traffic shadowing with metrics-canary phased rollouts can get you back to a happier place for releasing your software. Releases should be boring — let's make them stay that way.