Monki Gras 2017: Kevin Smith – Modern Shrink-wrap Software

In this talk Kevin Smith, CTO at Operable, talks about the company’s development journey, and lessons learned from development with Docker-based workflows – taking up the packaging theme with Modern Shrink-Wrapped Software. From Infrastructure (Postgres, AWS, GCP, Redis) to Apps to Automation (Chef, Puppet, Mesosphere, Kubernetes), and of course human factors underlying technology adoption. Kevin explains what ChatOps is, and how Operable’s Cog platform was built for it and packaged as Docker images – “Docker’s big innovation is executable packages”. From Design to Release to Install and lessons learned along the way.