Sebastian Tiedtke

An end-to-end showcase of how to mutually authenticate your microservices in Kubernetes using world-class PKI and a service mesh brought to you by @smallsteplabs & @linkerd.

Recorded talk: https://youtu.be/5kktb9rsNts?t=987
Screencast of demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Lyghrbk6g

Tech debt is a serious issue with regard to the health of an organization's software development lifecycle. The longer one holds out on paying off debt, the more expensive the cost is - eventually. In this talk I will recap the strategies Sauce Labs has applied, and the lessons we have learned along the way, to successfully move beyond our legacy web stack. I will also show how we achieved this with zero downtime and a large number of innovative technologies built on top of the battle-proven… Show more

Tech debt is a serious issue with regard to the health of an organization's software development lifecycle. The longer one holds out on paying off debt, the more expensive the cost is - eventually. In this talk I will recap the strategies Sauce Labs has applied, and the lessons we have learned along the way, to successfully move beyond our legacy web stack. I will also show how we achieved this with zero downtime and a large number of innovative technologies built on top of the battle-proven Django framework. Show less

One of Silicon Valley’s most accomplished internet veterans, Marc Andreessen, declared software as a driving factor of innovation and economic growth with the famous statement: “In short, software’s eating the world”.

As software quickly innovates, we witness a growing shift in the way humans interact with software applications. The most obvious trend is the shift from consumer and enterprise grade desktop applications to the mobile/smartphone platform.

My talk will outline a… Show more

One of Silicon Valley’s most accomplished internet veterans, Marc Andreessen, declared software as a driving factor of innovation and economic growth with the famous statement: “In short, software’s eating the world”.

As software quickly innovates, we witness a growing shift in the way humans interact with software applications. The most obvious trend is the shift from consumer and enterprise grade desktop applications to the mobile/smartphone platform.

My talk will outline a comprehensive approach for tackling the key challenges attached to the delivering smartphone users with a reliable and continuously tested mobile experience. My toolkit relies on emerging and exciting new open source components (some of which to be announced for the first time at OSCON).

I’m looking forward to taking OSCON attendees on a ride into the future of mobile app delivery, to spread some of my excitement around the powerful coordination of emerging open source services and javascript technologies. Show less

Sebastian Tiedtke, Director of Web Development at Sauce Labs, discusses automated testing, "testing to the left," and more at the 2014 Velocity Conference in Santa Clara.

Lighting talk at Android Dev Conf 2013

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Creating a successful Open Source project isn’t intuitive, or easy. Converting a brilliant idea into a working code base, then publishing it to Github (with significant adoption) is hard enough, nevermind building an ideal development and release workflow.

Sometimes, getting your OSS code out to the community is the easy part -- then the real work ensues. Juggling between the roles of; creator, maintainer and contributor while managing the interests of the group effort (IRC, mailing… Show more

Creating a successful Open Source project isn’t intuitive, or easy. Converting a brilliant idea into a working code base, then publishing it to Github (with significant adoption) is hard enough, nevermind building an ideal development and release workflow.

Sometimes, getting your OSS code out to the community is the easy part -- then the real work ensues. Juggling between the roles of; creator, maintainer and contributor while managing the interests of the group effort (IRC, mailing lists etc) and issue trackers can quickly scale from simple and exciting, to a time consuming full-time job.

I plan to take you on a ride, demonstrating how Open Source developers can leverage free service offerings (for open source) to make your life as a project maintainer easier and more rewarding; from development and QA automation through to continuous deployment. Show less