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Machine learning has become an important tool in the modern software toolbox, and high-performing organizations are increasingly coming to rely on data science and machine learning as a core part of their business. eBay introduced machine learning to its commerce search ranking and drove double-digit increases in revenue. Stitch Fix built a multibillion dollar clothing retail business in the US by combining the best of machines with the best of humans. And WeWork is bringing machine-learned approaches to the physical office environment all around the world. In all cases, algorithmic techniques started simple and slowly became more sophisticated over time. This keynote will use these examples to derive an agile approach to machine learning, and will explore that approach across several different dimensions. We will set the stage by outlining the kinds of problems that are most amenable to machine-learned approaches as well as describing some important prerequisites, including investments in data quality, a robust data pipeline, and experimental discipline. Next, we will choose the right (algorithmic) tool for the right job, and suggest how to incrementally evolve the algorithmic approaches we bring to bear. Most fancy cutting-edge recommender systems in the real world, for example, started out with simple rules-based techniques or basic regression. Finally, we will integrate machine learning into the broader product development process, and see how it can help us to accelerate business results.

Pango made huge changes transforming to an agile organisation that is working in the cloud. Implementing agile scrum with essential SAFe we grew up rapidly from few slow, big and separated teams to several small scrum teams, each responsible for several domains and has all the tools and abilities to move fast and efficient providing high quality deliverables in a T2M manner for the organisation. While becoming an agile organisation, Pango transferred it’s systems to the cloud leveraging it’s agility, efficiency and scalability to accelerate Pango’s evolution from a monolith architecture into a Microservices architecture and changing the way it develops, deploys and maintains it’s system.

As your company grows an evolves you deploy agile methodologies to improve the development and product processes, why not hiring too? In this talk I’ll cover some of the challenges and processes and tools we deployed to overcome that as we grew the WeWork Technology Tel Aviv site from 3 to 200.

What makes distributed teams especially challenging? How can we address these challenges to make our distributed organizations more effective? In this talk, Kevin Goldsmith discusses four main challenges: Conway’s Law, Amdahl’s Law (as applied to organizations), Empathy, and Communication. He gives examples of these problems and solutions from his experience leading distributed teams over the last 25 years.

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Many companies use innovation methodologies which are driven by Product Managers or Marketing people. As a result, Dev-Ops and Software Engineers receive only requirements & specs and are expected to simply execute. At Intuit we practice CDI – Customer Driven Innovation, where the drivers of innovation are our customers. This translates to an organization that enables all roles especially engineers to understand customers problems and generate new ideas and innovation. Due to the fact that we innovate hand in hand with our customers, our engineers truly own and shape their work. In this talk I will explain how we create a customer obsessed work culture and what we do with the insights we collect from our customers.

Scrum is over 20 years old, and by now the roles and responsibilities of the people on a Scrum Team are well-known (if not always practiced in the best way). But what about leaders and managers in agile organizations? What do they do, and why is their support of Scrum essential? This presentation will explore the essential role of agile leadership in supporting, nurturing, and growing agility in their organizations. While cross-functional, self-organizing, self-managing teams are ideal, most teams must progress through a series of stages of maturity before they are fully self-managing. How do agile leaders help them to get there? And what’s left for the leader if or when they do?

As the complexity of microservices applications grows, it becomes extremely difficult to track and manage interactions between services. Wouldn’t it be better if developers could focus on writing the code for the services business logic , instead of spending their time wiring application logic to support the service mesh? Istio to the rescue !!! When implementing micro service architecture there are multiple issues that needs to be addressed to support managing service interactions and service mesh in general, for example: Service discovery,Load balancing,High Availability,Endpoint monitoring,Dynamic routing,Security, and more… In this session we will learn how istio help us managing the service mesh in a uniform way and reducing the developers overhead of the non functional requirements of maintaining the microservices. We will start with a short introduction to istio and then experience hands on session.

This DevOps Workshop provides full-stack and DevOps engineers an introduction to Red Hat Openshift container platform and how it can be used for implementing CICD for building fully automated end-to-end deployment pipelines using advanced deployments techniques like rolling deployments and blue-green deployment. The agenda will include: DevOps Introduction OpenShift Introduction Deployment Environments Creating a Simple CI/CD Pipeline Pipeline Definition as Code Application Promotion Between Environments Running the CI/CD Pipeline on Every Change Zero-Downtime Deployment to Production Automated Zero-Downtime Deployment with CI/CD Pipelines The Workshop will be managed by Amir Zipory, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat.

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