We are going beyond the DevOps hype and our expectation are to have a full smoke-free conference with talks about real DEV-DATA-QA-SEC-OPS (tools, good practices, troubleshooting, delivery, team management, etc). This year the idea is to include all topics that help professionals on their daily jobs. Although nerdear.la is ops-centric we all need skills from the full stack (the real one, not the one in job descriptions) to collaborate with others.

We would like to have a common thread throughout the event so each talk adds increasing value to the audience. Don’t worry, it will be on us to coordinate with speakers how to achieve this.

Topics we like:

• Monitoring
• Operations
• Infrastructure and architecture, do’s and don’ts
• Cloud infrastructure, running a datacenter, setting a datacenter on fire, etc.
• Orchestration / Configuration management
• GNU/Linux, BSD, MSDOS, Xenix, etc.
• Development pipelines, shipping code from dev to prod (how to do it and how not to do it).
• QA/QC for sysadmins
• Security, secure infrastructure, dealing with BYOD, secure apps
• Development: $program_language for ops, writing simple tools with go/python/pascal
• Databases: mysql, postgres, nosql too. scaling, monitoring, configuration 101, etc.

Did we forget about the nerd topics? Not at all. nerdear.la is also a provocative, inspiring, DIY, poor-man’s, low resources experience. We’d like to learn about the cutting edge nerd stuff you are doing so talks about IoT, 3D printing, videogames, explosives, chemistry, physics, astronomy (and astrology), psychology, medicine, music, art, etc. are highly ranked too!