Rob Spieldenner

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Rob Spieldenner

Rob is a Senior Software Engineer on the Engineering Tools team at Netflix. He spends his days writing Gradle plugins and Grails apps to help the developers at Netflix produce an awesome experience for its customers. A reformed government contractor, he is now bringing his passion for test driven development and continuous delivery to other parts of the industry.

Presentations

Continuous Delivery at Netflix: Speed at Scale

An overview of the Continuous Delivery pipelines at Netflix. Using a combination of open source
software, AWS, and custom tools Netflix deploys changes to production multiple times a day.

The talk will touch on Netflix culture, Ant and Gradle to build, Jenkins and the Job DSL plugin to
automate on push to git, Aminator to bake images, Asgard to deploy to AWS, the Simian Army to
build resiliency, and other tools to help the CD pipelines and monitoring of running services.

Setting Up the Netflix Cloud (Half-day Workshop)

We want you to leave UberConf with a working cloud account, including supporting infrastructure that Amazon DOESN’T provide but that will make your cloud life way more manageable! Once your account is bootstrapped with Asgard and Aminator, we’ll be baking some of the myriad of @NetflixOSS apps. This workshop will be meaningful for anyone getting started with or currently using AWS.

This workshop provides a detailed hands-on experience to bring up the necessary components to run the @NetflixOSS stack. This includes priming your Amazon account (IAM Profiles, Security Groups, etc) and setting up Asgard and Aminator. Together they can be used, time permitting, to launch many more @NetflixOSS services, like Edda, Eureka and Ice.

To make best use of the time please bring a laptop, installed with JDK 7, an SSH client, Git, and Python (2.6 or higher with pip). Alternatively you can use a provided VirtualBox image. Also please have your AWS account created before arriving.