Source: globenewswire.com. Original press release date: August 7, 2019.
GitLab Commit Brooklyn 2019: Inaugural User Conference Unveiled
On August 7, 2019, GitLab announced the initial programming and confirmed speakers for GitLab Commit Brooklyn — the company’s first-ever user conference. The event was scheduled for September 17, 2019, at the Williamsburg Hotel in Brooklyn, NY. A companion event, GitLab Commit London, was also announced for October 9, 2019.
The conference was designed to bring together developers, operations professionals, and security engineers from across the GitLab community to share real-world DevOps experiences, lessons learned, and technical deep-dives.
“GitLab Commit was created to be a home for DevOps learning and collaboration. To bring developers, operations and security professionals together to share best practices and lessons learned with one another in hopes this will make the development and open source community better.”
— Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and Co-founder, GitLab
Conference Sessions and Speakers
The agenda covered a broad range of DevOps topics, including cloud native architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, DataOps, open source culture, security, and all-remote work practices. Sessions spanned technical deep-dives, panel discussions, and enterprise case studies.
“It was an honor to review CFP submissions for GitLab’s inaugural user conference and quite exciting to see submissions from the community that span across cloud native, security and data engineering.”
— George Tsiolis, UX Engineer and GitLab Core Contributor
The confirmed session lineup included:
- “Keynote: How Delta Became Truly Cloud Native: Avoiding the Vendor Lock” — Jasmine James, Delta Air Lines
- “Keynote: Creating a CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Kubernetes in 20 Minutes” — Eddie Zaneski, DigitalOcean
- “Keynote: Implementing an Open Source Culture at NASA” — Marshall Cottrell, MRI Technologies
- “Keynote” — George Grant, Goldman Sachs
- “Panel Discussion: From DevOps to DataOps — Data Engineering Best Practices”
- “Panel Discussion: Closing the SDLC Loop — A Security Panel”
- “Being Budget Conscious in a Continuously Automated World” — Tim Davis, VMware
- “Running GitLab and GitLab CI in Kubernetes for the Enterprise” — Kyle Persohn and Sean Corkum, Northwestern Mutual
- “Cloud Native Logging & Stream Processing” — Eduardo Silva, ARM Treasure Data
- “GovLab: GitLab in the Federal Government” — Solomon Rubin, MITRE
- “How Containerized GitLab CI Pipelines Can Help You Streamline Your Infrastructure Deployments” — Nico Meisenzahl, Panagenda Consulting GmbH
- “Automation and Iteration: How a Small Agency Team Takes Advantage of GitLab to Test and Deploy Rapidly Across Environments” — Cory Zibell, Digital Surgeons
- “The After-Effects of Contributing to Open Source” — George Tsiolis, Ubitech
- “Dynamically Managing Group Permissions Using GitOps and the GitLab API” — Philip Marc Schwartz, T-Mobile
- “Using Chaos Engineering in GitLab Pipelines for Faster Hardening” — Umasankar Mukkara, MayaData India
Venue and Registration
GitLab Commit Brooklyn was hosted at the Williamsburg Hotel and extended across multiple venues within a two-block radius — each with its own distinct theme. Attendees could expect experiences including a graffiti wall and a visit to a local brewery, alongside the technical programming.
An early registration discount of $99 off conference passes was available using the code commit99 through August 15, 2019 at 11:59 PM PT.
Sponsors
GitLab Commit Brooklyn was supported by the following sponsors:
- Event Sponsors: AWS, DigitalOcean, Stack Overflow
- Media Sponsors: DevOps.com, Software Engineering Daily, The New Stack
Organizations interested in sponsorship opportunities were directed to contact commit@gitlab.com.
About GitLab
At the time of this announcement, GitLab described itself as a DevOps platform built as a single application covering all stages of the DevOps lifecycle — from planning and development through QA, security, and operations. The platform offered a unified data store, user interface, and permission model designed to reduce cycle time and enable cross-functional collaboration. GitLab reported more than 100,000 organizations using the platform globally, including enterprises such as Ticketmaster, Jaguar Land Rover, NASDAQ, Dish Network, and Comcast.