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Tech Talks

For students in CSC591, you will be required to present a short talk and demo (10 minutes) about a DevOps related tool. Students will also need to be able to answer questions about the tool (5 minutes of discussion).

You will also turn in a repo containing a report and resources related to the tool.

You will get in groups of 4

You do not have to be in same groups as your project. There is no relation.

The following criteria will be used in evaluating your talk (each worth 5 points):

  • summarize the main purpose of the tool?
  • relate the tool to previously presented articles?
  • present the tool in a clear, logical manner?
  • critique the tool and present possible limitations?
  • justify his or her own opinions about the tool?
  • personalize the topic, such as by bringing in their own experiences?
  • demonstrates how to use the tool with simple example?
  • conveys value of tool in demonstration?
  • facilitate a lively discussion of the tool?
  • acts as an expert about the tool, answering clarifying questions as they arise?

A repo and report describing tool will be also be graded on the following criteria:

  • Provides a high level report about tool (10 points)
  • Provides setup instructions (sample code, configuration files, install scripts) 20 points
  • Provides a screencast or demo environment (e.g. virtual machine) using tool on a sample task (20 points).

Sign up

There are three days in the semester dedicated to tech talk presentations, each with limited slots for presenting.

  • 10/13
  • 11/02
  • 11/22

Please sign up early to get the spot you want (Note: you must be signed in your NCSU google account).

You can provide links to your repo on the same signup sheet.

Possible topics

Include, but not limited to:

  • Deployment tools (Beanstalk, etc.)
  • Monitoring tools (NewRelic, Nagios)
  • Analysis+Alarm tools (Splunk, PagerDuty)
  • Database tools (Liquibase, etc.)
  • Testing tools (Mocha, etc.)
  • Static Analysis (FindBugs, etc.)
  • Configuration Management Tools (Salt, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
  • Platforms as Service (Heroku, Google AppEngine, Google Cloud)
  • Advanced Docker usage (e.g. Docker compose, Kubernetes)
  • ...