Agile + DevOps East - Conference Speaker: Luke Kilpatrick

Director of Developer Experience

LinearB

Luke Kilpatrick started as web site developer in 1996, transitioning to managing technology communities in 2007. In 2010 Luke moved to developer program management as his full time role on VMware's marketing team. 2012 saw Luke at Sencha working in developer relations program and speaking at events around the world. For 4 years he managed Atlassian's developer events and programs, then built Nutanix's DevOps Experience practice from the ground up. Currently you will find Luke working at LinearB building out their developer experience program

Speaker Presentations

ITP7

Completing the Promise of CI/CD with Continuous Merge

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 - 3:00pm

Industry Technical Presentation

Pull requests have become the No. 1 undiagnosed bottleneck in engineering…and we have the data to prove it. After analyzing 1,000,000 pull requests, LinearB has uncovered CI/CD’s greatest weakness and - thankfully - a eureka moment that will forever change the developer experience: Continuous Merge.

Here’s the dirty little secret: not all PRs are created equal. They don’t all need the same level of effort and some of them don’t need any human intervention at all--it’s just a matter of using data and context to know which is which and creating intelligent automation workflows to...

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