Bio
Keanan Koppenhaver is the Lead Developer at How-To Geek, one of the top 200 sites in the US. When he’s not helping the editorial team share all their awesome, geeky knowledge with the world to the tune of 1MM hits/day, he’s writing WordPress plugins, trying to survive the nuclear winter on his Xbox or riding the L around Chicago.
My Talks
Dipping our Toes into DevOps: Starting with Ansible and Vagrant
Join us for a look at how we turned a set of brittle shell scripts into a powerful Ansible-based solution ensuring we can have consistent dev, staging, and even production servers on-demand. Join u...
Preparing a Monolith to Move to AWS
Many legacy applications are built out as a monolith, but cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, is built around the assumption that different pieces of an application can be separated out. This ta...
Selling DevOps To Non-Technical Management
Our team was called into a project that had taken 5 years with nothing to show for it and were asked to launch in 6 months. Huge changes had to be made under management that was used to a more trad...