Design Review Best Practices

Design reviews are the foundation for a successful product or feature launch. In this session we will broach a few of the critical questions an SRE asks during the design review process to ensure the design and deployment will result in a sustainable system. We will cover real world examples of the pitfalls of not engaging the operations/infrastructure team early in the process.

Mandi Walls is Technical Practice Manager at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. Prior to joining Chef, she ran large web properties for AOL, including AOL.com, Games.com and Moviefone. Mandi has a Master's degree in Computer Science from George Washington University and an M.B.A. from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences and is the author of Building a DevOps Culture, published by O'Reilly.