Results 2021

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Presentations of Week 2

DISTINCTION: Third Party Software Dependency Management. Anna Nikolskaya, Carl Leijonberg 👍👍

yes: timing, originality, reflection, loudly, engagement, humour, readable, illustration remarkable: motivation, technical, take-home

PASS: Monitoring with Prometheus. Aron Hansen Berggren, Fredrik Björkman 👍

yes: originality, reflection, take-home, loudly, engagement, humour, readable, illustration remarkable: technical, motivation

DISTINCTION: The history of DevOps. Hugo Heyman, Patricia Naccachian 👍👍

illustration yes: timing, motivation, technical, take-home, loudly, engagement, readable, illustration remarkable: originality, humour, reflection comments: the scope was ambitious and you succeeded

PASS: DevOps practices in a Sundsvall company. Isac Arvidsson, Andreas Henriksson 👍

yes: timing, technical, humour, reflection, take-home, loudly, engagement, readable, illustration remarkable: originality, motivation

DISTINCTION: Reproducible Builds with Nix. Yannik Sander 👍👍

yes: timing, motivation, reflection, loudly, engagement, humour, readable remarkable: technical, originality, illustration

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Presentations of Week 3

DISTINCTION ML_OPS: Current applications and future possibilities. Johan Hammarstedt @jhammarstedt , Matej Sestak @sestys 👍👍

yes: technical, illustration, loudly, timing, loudly, engagement (menti competition)

remarkable: reflection, originality, motivation, take-home

comments: agenda is clear, clear definitions, very clear vision and motivation (ML is not Jupyter); mlops verssus devops: clear, good reflection

REPEAT Overview of Continuous Testing. Gabriel Chang @ChangGabriel, William Skagerström @wska

yes: engagement, motivation, loudly, readable, timing

Comments: interesting link between testing / business risk, smooth articulation between speakers

For repeat:

• originality: choose one specific novel, timely feature of continuous testing and have a one slide focus on this key point (suggestion: link between continuous testing and user experience, this is original)
• reflection: sharpen the distinction between continuous and automated testing, based on concrete technical and methodological aspects. One possibility: select a case study to illustrate your purpose
• technical criterion: how do you concretely 'embed' business values or business risks into the automation cycle. give a code example.
• take-home: what is the key incentive to consider continuous testing? How can one 'boost' automatic testing?

REPEAT Continuous Testing in DevOps. Renugaa, Megha Gangwal @Renugaa @gangwalmegha

yes: timing, relevance, loudly

Important: add your full name and KTH ids in your README

For repeat

• originality: focus on one point, e.g. the 4 challenges of enterprise testing (slide)
• reflection: express your opinion about opportunities, risks or challenges
• readable/illustration: avoid slides with too many words / too many bullets (e.g. slide 'suggest approach...'), increase font size, have more focused and larger diagrams
• motivation: what is the specific problem that you address in your presentation?
• technical: can you say more about the challenges from a technical perspective? in the challenges you emphasize 'long times' for many tasks. What are the actions that take time?
• take-home: what is the key technical and novel point you would like the audience to remember from your talk?

minor comments:

• typos in slides:
• add slide numbers, proof-read all the slides
• rehearse the presentation to avoid skipping a slide, and work on the articulation among speakers

PASS Cloud and the journey for a start-up to Fortune 500. Adeeb Syed Shah, Rezaul Hasan, Carina Wickström @Internet-Person-IP

(edit of May 20: the extension on Week 4 validates this one) Good presentation with an original narrative and a good energy. Fails to meet the rules of the course.

REPEAT An Introduction to BizDevOps. Lazar Cerovic @lazarko

yes: illustration, readable, timing, originality

For repeat:

• reflection: crystalize what you believe are the most salient technical features that characterize this specific flavor of DevOps
• loudly / engagement: improve the smoothness of the talk, with more energy and engagement towards the audience
• motivation: what is the concrete problem that you are addressing in this presentation?
• technical: focus on one of the tools that you mention in the slide before last and elaborate on it (e.g., pega agilepoint, wavemaker), incl. a deep dive into one of them
• take-home: what shall your audience, who is very passionate about technology, take from your presentation?

Comments:

• elaborate on why your local kebap place is a "software company".
• bizdevops add a reference to an authoritative source
• add slide numbers

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Presentations of week 4

PASS Autoscaling and load balancing. Carina Wickstrom @carinawic, Md Rezaul Hasan @MDRezaulHasan. 👍

yes: timing, originality, loudly, readable, humour (sponge bob), take-home (convincing black friday example)

remarkable: engagement (lots of energy), technical

PASS Assuring Code Quality with SonarQube. Félix Fonteneau @FelixFonteneau, Hilaire Bouaddi @Hilaire-Bouaddi 👍

yes: timing, motivation, originality, readable, reflection (relation between quality and scalability, inclusive perspective about code quality), take-home

remarkable: illustration

Comments:

• it'd be good to deepen the technical aspect of Sonar (the cost of fixing, the false alarms, the number of rules, etc.)
• problem in structure: continuous code inspection is defined twice on two separate slides

DISTINCTION GitOps Carl Piehl @cpiehl1, Charlotte Andersson @charlottea98 👍👍

yes: illustration, timing, loudly (very clear speech), readable, technical (code), originality, take-home

remarkable: motivation, reflection (excellent), technical

DISTINCTION DevOps in high security environments Isak Hassbring @hassbring, Gustaf Lidfeldt @glidfeldt 👍👍

yes: motivation, originality, loudly (very clear tone), engagement (pollev is original), readable, take-home, humour

remarkable: illustration (multi layer of package manager, graphs), technical, reflection

Comments: grounded on sourced facts (equifax breach), actionable (npm retire); good references at the end which can also be put as footnote in slides

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Presentations of week 5

DISTINCTION Managing secrets in dynamic environments with HashiCorp Vault. Amar Hodzic @amarhod, Natan Teferi Asegehegn @callmeGoldenboy 👍👍

yes: timing, loudly (spreaks slowly and clearly), humour , readable, well-structured, technical, take-home (actionabe)

remarkable: reflection, motivation, originality

DISTINCTION DevSecOps takeaways from Hacking into Google's Network for $133,337 Ayub Atif @ayubatif 👍👍

yes: timing, illustration, well-structured, readable, motivation, engagement (good story telling, energetic talk), humour (memes), take-home,

remarkable: originality, technical, reflection (about the story, about bug bounties, about devsecops)

comments: credits and links are very good, be careful of not speaking too fast.

DISTINCTION Flaky tests. August Jönsson @Augustjon, Daniel Grünler @grunler 👍👍

yes: timing, engagement (storytelling), readable, humour (slide 9), loudly, illustration, technical

remarkable: motivation, well-structured, reflection

PASS Kanban and Scrum. George Bassilious @George-Bassilious, Eva Despinoy @evkade 👍

yes: timing, loudly, well-structured, motivation (clear definitions and relation to devops), reflection (good knowledge of the topic and differences / complementarities), readable

remarkable: illustration

comments: the links to source in every slide is excellent

DISTINCTION Whitebox Fuzzing. Kitty Thai @kittytinythai, Sebastian Fagerlind @Sebberh 👍👍

yes: timing, originality, loudly, readable (beautiful slides), illustration, well-structured, reflection

remarkable: motivation (excellent problem statement), technical (snippets, SAGE), take-home (lessons of the day)

PASS Devops with Tuleap. Vlado Mitrovic @vladomitrovic, Johan Mallo Bakken @johanmallobakken 👍

yes: timing, illustration, motivation (agile needs alm), take-home, humour, readable, well-structured, reflection

remarkable: originality, engagement (live demo during Q&A)

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Presentations of week 6

DISTINCTION Modern end-to-end testing frameworks Agnes Petäjävaara @anorangesky, Adam Henriksson @adamih👍👍

yes: timing , loudly, readable, illustration, motivation (selenium is not enough anymore), well-structured, originality

remarkable: technical, engagement, reflection, take-home

Comment: we loved the voice-over code being written

DISTINCTION CodeQL for automated code analysis. Axel Pettersson @Ackuq, Christopher Gustafson @ChristopherGustafson 👍👍

yes: timing, loudly, well-structured, motivation, readable, humour, take-home

remarkable: originality, technical, reflection

Comment: thank you for the excellent curated list of tools

DISTINCTION Mobile backend as a service Lara Rostami @LaraRos, Christian Stjernberg @christian-stj 👍👍

yes: timing, reflection, readable, illustration, loudly, motivation, loudly, well-structured, take-home

remarkable: originality, technical, engagement

Comment: we loved the firebase demo

PASS Maven and Gradle - The Battle of the Build Tools. Maja Tennander @majate, Axel Elmarsson @elmaxe 👍

yes: timing, illustration, readable, loudly, well-structured, take-home, humour, technical

remarkable: engagement, motivation

PASS Infrastructure automation using Ansible. Urama Ifeoma @IfyUrama, Yuxin Meng @yuxinmmmm 👍

yes: timing, motivation, technical, well-structured, engagement, illustration, reflection

Comment: add slide numbers, avoid too much text on slides and don't forget a take-home message