Splunk [Industrial IoT | Mobile | SignalFx | VictorOps] 2019 .conf Videos w/ Slides

AV and conference technology may seem trivial to the traditional IT OPS engineer, but it is one of the most visible and expensive parts of an enterprise. Everyone from the CEO to even the new hires on their first day use the technology. At PSE we were able to leverage Splunk to help us build, maintain, and manage our enterprise AV program (and save a lot of money in the process). In this session you will learn how we used Splunk to make data-driven decisions that influence and shape a multi-million dollar AV program.

Speaker(s)
Chris Ramsay, IT Facilities Engineer , Puget Sound Energy

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IOT2134.pdf?podcast=1577146262

SignalFx, the latest addition to the Splunk family, is the market leader in real-time cloud monitoring and Observability for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. This session will serve as a primer into the new challenges and solutions involved in effectively monitoring and troubleshooting modern cloud environments built with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless functions. As you progress on your cloud-native journey and develop your own monitoring and Observability strategy, we will share three valuable insights: 1) best practices for collecting, visualizing, analyzing, alerting, and troubleshooting these complex environments using metrics, traces, and logs; 2) lessons learned from companies that have successfully reduced MTTD and MTTR, improved developer productivity, and improved customer experiences; 3) a live demonstration of the SignalFx platform in action

Speaker(s)
Amit Sharma, Director, Product Marketing, Splunk
Alberto Farronato, Head of SignalFx Product Marketing, Splunk - SignalFx Products
Jeff Lo, Director of Product Marketing, Splunk - SignalFx Products

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT3005.pdf?podcast=1577146262

Everything breaks at 3:00 a.m. No one wants a team of engineers managing incidents on little to no sleep. Think about how tired you were the morning after the last all-nighter you pulled. Coffee can only do so much. If you work in any type of technical operations role you know how easy it is for on-call to take over your life. When managing an on-call team, you must think about the human side of on-call to avoid employee burnout and alert fatigue. In this session we will outline a four-step process to streamline incident management, review how to manage alerts through VictorOps, and give your team their lives back!

Speaker(s)
Bethany Abbott, TechOps Manager, NS1

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1968.pdf?podcast=1577146261

Do you want to deliver the power of Splunk AR to your colleagues in the field? Splunk AR ties Splunk data to real-world objects, so users can easily consume the data where it lives. We’ll go over several use cases of technicians in the field using Splunk AR to discover, diagnose, and resolve issues in various environments. You'll walk away equipped with the tools to construct these experiences from scratch and enable your organization to deploy Splunk AR.

Speaker(s)
Devin Bhushan, Splunk AR, Eng Lead, Splunk
Glen Wong, Senior Engineering Manager, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1752.pdf?podcast=1577146261

This session is for customers who would like to extend their Splunk usage to mobile devices and understand how Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) works. It also will benefit customers who have existing mobility management solutions, including mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) systems, and want to enroll the Splunk mobile apps. The session will include an introduction and live demos showing detailed integration with the most popular mobile device management (MDM) solutions: AirWatch, MobileIron, and Blackberry. We also will have live demos to illustrate how to configure different Splunk mobile apps with the enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions from scratch. Topics to be discussed will include profile configuration, authorized devices, app wrapping, and MDM/MAM-specific features.

Speaker(s)
Roy Zhang, Principle QA, Splunk
Strong Yuan, Senior Software Engineer in Test, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1886.pdf?podcast=1577146261

Splunk .conf is our favorite event every year and we wanted to extend the excitement while getting even more Splunky. So we grabbed an RV, set up some sensors, built an edge computing environment, and packed up the Big Data Beard recording equipment for a road-trip across the country for the week leading up to .conf, traveling from New York City to Las Vegas. We stopped along the way to hear awesome stories from fellow Splunk users, sharing them online via live chats and podcasts. With the power of Splunk, we captured data, discovered trends, predicted failures, and discovered more exciting ways to use Splunk to drive value from machine-generated data across the country. Hear the full story of how three engineers had the most interesting trip to .conf2019 of all!

Speaker(s)
Brett Roberts, Senior Systems Engineer, Dell
Kyle Prins, Senior Systems Engineer , Dell

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IoT2066.pdf?podcast=1576909593

Industrial operations comprise a diverse blend of technology that run critical processes. The proliferation of automation and networking has increased the sophistication of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), also known as Operational Technology (OT) environments.Threats targeting OT are increasing in both frequency and sophistication. Dragos tracks 9 OT-targeting activity groups, the most significant of which, XENOTIME, was responsible for the TRISIS malware that targeted safety systems (SIS) resulting in multiple plant shutdowns and the potential to cause harm to human operators.Traditional IT threat hunting is not well-suited to OT environments. This session will outline the differences between IT and OT assessments, highlight the most significant threats facing OT, and review best practices for OT-specific threat hunting engagements, including techniques that empower defenders to detect and respond more efficiently to existing and future threats, therefore reducing adversary dwell time.

Speaker(s)
Amy Bejtlich, Threat Intelligence, Dragos
Marc Seitz, Threat Analyst, Dragos

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IOT1641.pdf?podcast=1576909593

We now live in a Cloud Native world where we build and deploy software very differently from the previous generation. Large, centralized systems are being decoupled and distributed to address scalability needs and to allow companies to deliver value faster. Compared to monolithic applications, microservice architectures introduce complexity in network communication, feature much shorter life cycles, and require resiliency in dynamic environments. As companies began to build or migrate to microservice architectures they often run into operational complexity and struggle to efficiently monitor their environments. These challenges have highlighted the need to observe systems differently and lead to the rise of Observability. In this session, we will discuss OpenTelemetry and how it provides visibility into both distributed traces and metrics. We will walk through the architecture including client libraries and collection as well as cover key concepts including annotations, sampling policies and more. Live demos and coding examples will be presented through the talk. By the end of the session, you will know what OpenTelemetry is, why it is important, how you can get started and how you can get involved.

Speaker(s)
Steve Flanders, Director of Product Management, Splunk
Constance Caramanolis, Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT2950.pdf?podcast=1576909593

As more technology organizations pursue agility and move towards continuous delivery, a stable and reliable IT infrastructure is the foundation that enables the transformation. However, the increasing complexity of the underlying infrastructure also brings a lot of challenges. Splunk has built a variety of solutions on top of our platform to deal with this complexity and deliver analytics and troubleshooting data to our engineering teams and decision makers. We will share a bit about our continuous integration process for triaging automated tests using Splunk, how we build IT infrastructure monitoring/analytics system based on Splunk ITSI, and how we take corresponding actions via VictorOps.

Speaker(s)
Scott Lu, Senior Engineering Manager, Splunk
Alfie You, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/IT1962.pdf?podcast=1576909593

Understanding the intent of a natural language search is a major component of any natural language processing system. Although there are numerous machine learning and deep learning techniques to solve complex problems in natural language processing, such as understanding intent also known as natural language understanding, very few of them discuss the challenges in production. In this session we take you on a journey from development to production of natural language understanding component of Splunk Natural Language Platform. We will discuss several engineering and data science challenges, and also provide holistic approaches to overcome those challenges. Attendees of the session should walk away with a deeper understanding of different state-of-the-art techniques, such as understanding the intent of a natural language search query, that can help them build their own applications in the natural language processing domain.

Speaker(s)
Aungon Nag Radon, Sr. Data Scientist, Splunk
Anand Srinivasabagavathar, Senior Software Engineer, Splunk

Slides PDF link - https://conf.splunk.com/files/2019/slides/FN1716.pdf?podcast=1576909592