Izaak Lauer

A 30 minute talk exploring of the problem that developers face trying to deploy software by piecing together (and tightly coupling to) today's miasma of deployment tools, along with an introduction to HashiCorp Waypoint as a solution allowing platform engineers to provide to app developers a flexible abstraction over the particulars of the infrastructure. And a demo!

A detailed look into how the engineering team's remote-first focus, tight integration with the rest of the campaign, and technical excellence helped contribute to the campaign's success and will shape political tech going forward.

Discusses the unique challenges of building and running tech for a presidential cycle, highlighting the digital duct tape that held the pieces together and the data flowing.

A deep dive into one of our more interesting and complex internal-facing tools, Couchpotato.

Matt talks about the philosophy the engineering team had around building and buying the software that powered the campaign, and gives an overview of what we built.

An introduction to Unimatrix, Target's edge deployment platform.

An introduction to Target's application platform, TAP, which allows Target developers to focus on apps and not infrastructure.

How Target used Kubernetes as a compute platform in the datacenter, in the public cloud, and in thousands of edge locations.

The story of a spectacularly complex distributed system problem, and a great success story on debugging consequential production systems.

On Christmas of 2015, I helped build a human thermal simulation of Santa, and now Izaak the Elf seems to have become a Christmas tradition at Thermoanalytics.