DevOps in the Windy City With Jeff Smith, Jerry Cattell, and Sameer Doshi

• ADO episode at devopsdays Chicago 2014 with J. Paul Reed
• Jerry started his career swapping out computers for Y2K in tropical locations. Nice job to have!
• Most sportsball talk on any episode of ADO to date!
• “You may not be able to move as fast as others, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit still” - Jeff
• Conversations Matt has had with local folks in the past two years have changed from “this will never work at my company” to “ this is really hard, and we aren’t moving as fast as I would like us to be”
• 1871 - Chicago incubator
• Chicago DevOps Meetup
• 2016 Chicago Tech Madness Bracket

Companies doing cool devops in chicago

• Kcura
• Grubhub
• Gogo
• Hyatt
• Braintree
• DRW
• ThoughtWorks
• US Foods
• McDonalds
• Walgreens
• CME Group

Community & Event Stuff

If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf

Upcoming conferences

For any devopsdays, try the code ADO2016! It should get you 20% off.

• DevOpsDays Ohio Oct 31, 2016 - Nov 1, 2016
• DevOpsDays Madison Nov 2, 2016 - Nov 3, 2016
• DevOpsDays Bangalore Nov 4, 2016 - Nov 5, 2016
• DevOpsDays Cape Town Nov 7, 2016 - Nov 8, 2016
• DevOpsDays Nashville Nov 10, 2016 - Nov 11, 2016

Open CFPs

• A lot of devopsdays CFPs closing soon - see devopsdays.org/speaking

Check Outs

Jeff

• Neptune.io
• Netflix’s Winston
• Chicago DevOps Book Club

Jerry

• DevOpsDays Chicago videos
• Spantree Vimeo - a Meetup recording company that also does tech consulting

Sameer

• Edmund Lau’s Effective Engineer a great, fast read that’s made big differences in day to day life (reminds me of Time Management for System Adminstrators)
• Can’t wait for Halloween and the finale of the web series Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party
• OMG I’m loving http://armviz.io

Matt

• Storm Trooper Whiskey Decanter
• Hamilton in Chicago!
• Westworld on HBO