Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet

Abstract

Maintaining up-to-date and secure software across a polyglot fleet is a challenge for any engineering organization. Manual migrations and urgent updates disrupt productivity and require coordination across many teams. Often, these migrations take months or longer to accomplish, leaving the fleet vulnerable or forcing platform teams to maintain multiple software versions throughout the course of the migration. In this talk, I’ll share our ongoing journey to automate fleetwide changes in one week or less. This presentation will focus on:

  • How to think about safely orchestrating changes at scale
  • Designing automation for a diverse software ecosystem
  • Challenges we face as we work to reach our goal

Speaker

Casey Bleifer

Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

Casey Bleifer is a Senior Software Engineer on the Change Automation team at Netflix, where she focuses on automating code changes across the fleet. Prior to that, she contributed to Spinnaker during her time in delivery engineering at Netflix. Before Netflix, she was a frontend engineer at Uber working on the Uber Freight products. Outside of work Casey enjoys traveling, going to concerts, watching NBA/WNBA games, and being a theater nerd.

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Date

Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom BC

Topics

Fleet Management Platform Engineering CI/CD Orchestration

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