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Browser Testing with Nightwatch.js

Talk
Industry track
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Mr
Salvador
Molina
Moreno
PHP Engineer
Freelance

It's been around 8 years since Behat made its entrance in the PHP world. Looking back, it's fair to say it meant a revolution thanks to which many development teams started to incorporate browser testing into their projects. However, Gherkin syntax, while very useful in some scenarios, it's not always the most friendly or desirable when writing browser tests. Enter Nightwatch.js...

2.02 chromium

DevOps 101: building blameless, systematic, intentional culture at your organization

Talk
Industry track
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Jeffrey
Alexander
McGuire
Partner
Open Strategy Partners

It doesn't matter how smart your strategy or technology might be if you're not leading people that trust each other and collaborate. In this talk, I'll give examples of how to address some of the blockers and opportunities on the path to building an intentional culture at your company.

2.03 vanadium

Drupal Infrastructure Exchange

BoF
Industry track

Following up on what happened with BoFs at DrupalCon Vienna here is another round of infrastructure exchange between our engineering team from the DA and other folks being involved in providing infrastructure for the Drupal community. While this exchange is open in general the target group are clearly people with an engineering record on serving infrastructure either within the community or it's companies.

Scope is about sharing experience with certain technologies, integrating present central and decentralized infrastructures, envisioning future landscape of community services, understanding different privacy and law contexts, finding synergy effects and lean ways of contribution/collaboration and most important establishing further meetups and communications. An actual agenda should be defined once sitting together ...

3.07 argon

Drupal.org Update

Panel
Industry track
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Timothy
Lehnen
Director of Engineering
Drupal Association
Neil
Drumm
Drupal.org Architect
Drupal Association
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Ryan
Aslett
Drupal.org Developer Services
Drupal Association

The Drupal.org panel provides an update on the last six months of work by the Drupal Association engineering team to improve the tools and processes that support the Drupal project.

3.08 neon

GitLab (Auto) Review Apps with Drupal

Talk
Industry track
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Markus
Orenstrat
MSc.
DevOps and Backend Developer
Reinblau eG

Automatic Drupal instances per Git branch under your control, on your own server or your Kubernetes cluster.

When working with a (remote) team and/or for your sprint review, it is essential that your colleagues, product owners or stakeholders can easily try out your software, that is, not only see, but also make use of what you have implemented. Preferably, this should be possible for each branch in your repository.

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2.03 vanadium

Modern Workflows for the Modern Developer

Talk
Industry track
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Matthew
Cheney
Chaos Wizard
Pantheon
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Mike
Pirog
Co-Founder
Tandem
Lando

The modern web is a thing of beauty, but it is a complex beauty. Modern workflows require package management, build steps, automatic testing via continuous integration, cloud hosting platforms, and production parity local development options. This session will break down the needs of the modern developer and talk about the tooling required to meet those needs and create web magic.

2.03 vanadium

Myths and Legends of Breaking the Monolith

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Branislav
Bujisic
Product Engineer
Platform.sh

Think about the following scenario: you have a giant Drupal 7 project with heaps of services and custom code, and things. It is a single point of failure and you want to replace it. Is Drupal 8 the logical option? Do you really want to switch from one to another monolith? There were others who had the same dilemma. Come to the session to find out what they did.

3.02 hassium
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Open Source Engagement to Empower Business

Talk
Industry track
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Kevin
Bridges
Co-Founder & CTO
Drud Technology

Keystones for successful open source projects include motivated contributors, a collective belief in the goals of the project, and a governance and support model that empowers contributors new and old.  In this session we will explore the science of motivation and examples of systems that apply Open Source practices to effective business management.  You will learn how to communicate more effectively with your teams and why a traditional

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2.04 titanium

The Way We Work: Culture, Communication, and Containers

Talk
Industry track
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Kevin
Bridges
Co-Founder & CTO
Drud Technology
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Elli
Ludwigson
Content creator
Open Strategy Partners

Is it possible to completely rethink the way we work? We would like to share how DRUD was founded on DevOps principles and how we continue to integrate our philosophy of work into our daily flow. In telling our story, we hope to inspire and help you support excellence in your team culture by building stability and quality into your daily workflow and agency philosophy. 

2.03 vanadium

Why DevOps, Containers, and Tooling Matter in Digital Transformation

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Tracy
Evans
Partner
Open Strategy Partners
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Steven
Grandchamp
CEO
DRUD Technology LLC

We will show the direct connection between business strategy, digital strategy, and the increasingly complex technologies we use to deploy the web and the business value they can deliver to your company or organization.

2.07 aurum

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