The DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016 (DOES16) brought together some of the most experienced DevOps practitioners in the industry. Electric Cloud, a continuous delivery automation vendor, had a strong presence at the event — with customers and speakers participating in sessions covering real-world DevOps transformation at enterprise scale.
Electric Cloud at DOES16
On the sidelines of the conference, several Electric Cloud customers and featured speakers sat down with Alan Shimel, founder and editor-in-chief of DevOps.com, for a series of short video interviews. These conversations offered a candid look at each practitioner’s session topic, their perspective on the current state of DevOps, and their view of where enterprise DevOps adoption is heading.
Why DOES16 Mattered
The DevOps Enterprise Summit, produced by IT Revolution and Gene Kim, is specifically designed for leaders driving large-scale DevOps transformations in complex organizations. Unlike practitioner-focused events, DOES centers on the organizational, cultural, and architectural challenges that enterprises face when adopting DevOps principles at scale.
By 2016, the event had established itself as a premier forum where companies such as Target, Nordstrom, and Capital One shared concrete case studies about DevOps outcomes — including deployment frequency improvements, lead time reductions, and cultural change programs.
Electric Cloud’s Role in Enterprise Continuous Delivery
Electric Cloud (later acquired by CloudBees in 2019) built tooling focused on release orchestration and continuous delivery pipelines for large enterprises. Their platform, ElectricFlow, was designed to manage complex, multi-team software releases across heterogeneous environments — a common challenge for the Fortune 500 companies that attended DOES16.
Having customers present at DOES16 gave Electric Cloud an opportunity to demonstrate real-world deployments of their tooling within enterprise DevOps programs, rather than relying purely on vendor messaging.
Video Interviews with DevOps.com
The interview clips captured at DOES16 were originally published on the Electric Cloud blog. Each short video featured a different speaker or customer discussing:
- The subject and key takeaways from their DOES16 session
- Their organization’s DevOps maturity and transformation journey
- Practical advice for enterprises still early in their DevOps adoption
- Their outlook on where enterprise DevOps practices were evolving
These practitioner-led conversations are a hallmark of the DOES format, and capturing them in video form extended the reach of those insights to audiences who could not attend in person.
Original Source
This post originally summarized coverage published on the Electric Cloud blog. The source article and video clips were published at: Electric Cloud Talks DevOps with DevOps.com at DOES16 – Electric Cloud.
Note: Electric Cloud was acquired by CloudBees in 2019. The original Electric Cloud blog domain may no longer be active.