Hi! I'm Rob

Links to blogs, webinars, and various projects

I am a Principal Solutions Architect at Dynatrace supporting Technology Alliances and Ecosystems.

I my role, I support market research and shape strategic technology partner roadmaps with the hottest and newest technology companies and am a trusted advisor to our partners, product marketing, solution engineers and R&D. I am a passionate about technology and enjoy developing technical workshops, videos, industry presentations, and blogs.

Prior to Dynatrace, I was a technical services Director advising and building successful software, DevOps, and test automation solutions for 15 years within Professional services companies.

Presentations & Webinars

CLOUD and AIOPS  
LaunchDarkly/AWS/Cockroach DB webinar - Tech Migration Roadmap - 2023_Aug_01
Secure, fast deployments with intelligent automation for DevSecOps - Brian Chandler & Rob Jahn - AWS Summit July 2023
> LinkedIn - 2023_Jul_01
Automated IT service mangement with Robert Dring, Head of Global Presales APM at Eviden - Servicenow NOW conference - May 2023
> LinkedIn
RSA Conference - Gigamon presentation - April 2023
> LinkedIn
Dynatrace Ask Me Anything series 2023
> LinkedIn
> AppEngine YouTube
> Analytics YouTube
> Automation YouTube
Reduce the Noise - AI for high level priority incidents​ with Diana Nadja of​ RBC Bank
> Dynatrace Perform 2023
AWS Summit San Francisco - 2022_Apr_20
Rookout webinar - Code and Context: Debugging running code faster with intelligent observability - Feb 2023
>LinkedIn
> YouTube
Powering Cloud Codernization - Vegas AWS reInvent 2022
>LinkedIn
> YouTube
Get to Know Dynatrace: Grail Edition - fall 2022
>Registration
> YouTube
Observablity for Cloud-Native Progressive Delivery LaunchDarkly webinar - oct 2022
>LinkedIn
> YouTube
Dynatrace Perform 2022 - Build a proactive approach to cloud operations for increased resilience - 2022_Feb_01
> Dynatrace Perform site
Partner Integration - Dynatrace with PagerDuty and Rundeck - 2021_Nov_22
> LinkedIn
> YouTube
When critical IT fails, respond like a superhero - Dynatrace SIGNL4 Webinar - 2022_Mar_23
> YouTube
How to build a resilient incident managment plan - 2021_Nov_19
> LinkedIn
> OnDemand webinar
Dynatrace and xMatters Make Seamless Efficiency Possible - 2021_Aug_19
>LinkedIn
> YouTube
BrightTalk series: Inside AIOps: Optimizing Incident Management in 2021

Beyond Intelligent Incident Management: AIOps Done Right - 2021_Mar_30
>BrightTalk WebCast >LinkedIn
xMatters Demo Dayz Webinar
xMatters + Dynatrace, A Great Customer Experience - 2021_Mar_01
>xMatters YouTube >LinkedIn
LaunchDarkly Webinar
Accelerating Remediation with Automation - 2021_Feb_25
>LinkedIn
DEVOPS  
Closing Keynote: Integration Spotlight, LaunchDarkly Galaxy Atlanta - 2022_Jun_28
DevOps Toronto February - GitOps & SLO-Driven Automation for faster and better releases - 2022_Feb_01
> YouTube
Dynatrace Perform 2022 - Achieve risk-free delivery by automating zero downtime release strategies - 2022_Feb_01
> Dynatrace Perform site
DevOps Enterprise Summit - VendorDome: Beyond the Buzzwords: Going Deep on DevOps with Dynatrace & LaunchDarkly - 2021_Nov_09
> On Demand Webinar
> Event Page
The Fast & the foolproof: Automation & Observability for DevOps - 2021_Aug_25
>LinkedIn
>Video
SLO Conference - Dynatrace Software Intellegence Platform & Service Level Indicators - 2021_May_01
>LinkedIn
> YouTube
Seatle SRE Meetup - Service Level Objectives - why are we still talking about this? - 2021_Apr_28
>LinkedIn
> YouTube
DevOpsStage Conference
A Guide to Event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps: The end of your monolithic release process - 2020_Oct_09
>YouTube
Dynatrace Performance Clinics
Automate service delivery with Keptn, Atlassian and Dynatrace - 2020_May_6
>YouTube
Dynatrace Webinar
Successful Cloud Migration to Microsoft Azure On-demand - 2020_May_01
>Video >LinkedIn
Nebulaworks CloudNatives Lightning talks
Embracing service-level-objectives of your microservices in your CI/CD - 2020_Apr_30
>Reg Page >YouTube
Seattle SRE Meetup
Embracing service-level-objectives of your microservices in your CI/CD - 2020_Apr_29
>YouTube >Reg Page
Keptn Community Meeting
Automate service delivery with Keptn and Atlassian - 2020_Apr_16
>YouTube
Performance Advisory Council Meetup
How to organize a team to take advantage of Performance as a Self-Service? - 2020_April_08
>LinkedIn
Dynatrace Perform 2020 Conference
Release Better Software Faster: Increase quality and agility with performance as a self-service - 2020_Feb_16
Slides
Dynatrace Performance Clinics
Continuous Build and Release Verification with Keptn Quality Gates - 2019_Sep_3
>YouTube
New England Java Users Group
Shipping code like a Keptn: Automating your Kubernetes Delivery Pipelines so you can focus on code - 2019_Sep_12
>Reg Page
Toronto DevOps Meetup Group
Shipping code like a Keptn - 2019_Aug_06
>LinkedIn
Charlotte Microsoft Azure Meetup Group
Ship code like a keptn: Automating Azure Kubernetes Service Delivery Pipelines - 2019_July_10
>Reg Page
>LinkedIn
DevOps & Drinks Meetup Group – NYC
Shipping Code like a keptn: Automating your Kubernetes Delivery Pipelines so you can focus on code - 2019_July_30
>LinkedIn >Reg Page
Microsoft Build 2019 Conference
Using AI and automation to build resiliency into Azure DevOps - 2019_May_6
>Video >Slides >LinkedIn
DevOps with Dynatrace and Atlassian - Demo Den - May 2021
> YouTube
Dynatrace AWS Partnership Overview with Demo - 10 minute overview and demo shared on the Dynatrace.com website
>Dynatrace Website
DevOps Days Toronto
Short welcome on mainstage - 2019_May_29
>LinkedIn
MODERNIZATION  
Ask me anything webinar, Dynatrace - 2022_May_25
> Dynatrace enables DevOps Platform Engineers and SREs to automate SLO management, release validation, resiliency engineering, multi-stage delivery or automated problem remediation by connecting Dynatrace’s AIOps to their favorite DevOps tools for deploy, test, notify or remediate.
Dynatrace Perform 2022 - Cloud-native hyperscale with Dynatrace & AWS Lambda - 2022_Feb_01
> Dynatrace Perform site
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Cloud-native hyperscale with Dynatrace and AWS Lambda - 2021_Dec_17
> YouTube
Dynatrace Perform 2021 Conference
Solving modernization challenges with Microsoft Azure and Dynatrace - 2021_Jan_01
>LinkedIn >Dynatrace
Dynatrace Perform 2021 Conference
Application Modernization with AWS: Three Key Considerations - 2021_Jan_01
>LinkedIn >Dynatrace
AWS Twitch TV
Advanced Kubernetes Observability with Dynatrace - 2020_Sep_16
>Twitch TV Episode >LinkedIn
Dynatrace Performance Clinics
Dynatrace for Jira - Transform your operations to work smarter not harder with Tempest - 2020_Jul_16
>YouTube
CMG Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Conference
How to transform faster by solving modernization challenges - 2021_Mar_30
>CMG Event Page
Dynatrace Webinar
5 Steps to Accelerate AWS Cloud Migration - 2020_Jun_18
>LinkedIn
Introducing Dynatrace solution for Azure Lighthouse - production studio company recorded in the Dynatrace office and played on the Azure website and at a booth at an Azure conference
>Azure Website

Workshops

   
AWS Immersion Days - Multiple Virtual sessions
>Dynatrace
Azure and Dynatrace - Multiple Virtual sessions
>Dynatrace
Dynatrace Perform 2021 Conference Hands On training
>LinkedIn
AWS Modernization - Virtual 2020
>AWS >LinkedIn
RedHat and Dynatrace - Wisconsin
>LinkedIn
Dynatrace Perform 2020 Conference Hands On training
Neotys Performance Testing workshop
> Code
Dynatrace Azure Hands-On CI/CD Workshop - Rochester NY 2019
>LinkedIn
Dynatrace and Azure DevOps - Akron Ohio 2019
>LinkedIn
Dynatrace and Azure DevOps - Clevland Ohio 2019
>LinkedIn
Dynatrace and Azure DevOps - Cincinnati Ohio 2019
>LinkedIn
Unbreakable Continuous Delivery Workshop - MTC Boston 2019
>LinkedIn

Quickstart Guides

   
Dynatrace Alliances Team workshops
> Code
> Guide
Dynatrace Cloud Automation Quick Start
> Guide
Jfrog Pipelines - Dynatrace integration Reference Design
Guide
Atlassian team 2021 - Automatically create a Jira Software issue from a detected problem in Dynatrace
> Guide
AWS Modernization workshop
> Code
> Guide

Blogs

AWS
AWS Marketplace - Increasing observability in your AWS Control Tower landing zone with Dynatrace
Dynatrace Blog - Dynatrace Support for AWS Lambda Functions Powered by x86 and AWS Graviton2
Dynatrace Blog - Dynatrace named a new Amazon EKS Anywhere partner
Dynatrace Blog - Dynatrace named a launch partner of Amazon ECS Anywhere
Dynatrace Blog - Using Dynatrace to master the 5 pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (Part 1)
Dynatrace Blog - Dynatrace and AWS Systems Manager – Automate OneAgent distribution securely, centrally and at scale
Dynatrace Blog - AWS and Dynatrace automation hit the jackpot at Perform Las Vegas
DEVOPS
Continuous Deliver Foundation Blog - Future of Continuous Delivery Trends
Atlassian Developer Community Blog - Using AI and automation to build resiliency into Bitbucket pipelines
Atlassian Developer Community Blog - How Dynatrace and Atlassian help transform your operations team to work smarter not harder
Dynatrace Blog - Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster
Dynatrace Blog - Part 2: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster
Dynatrace Blog - Simplify and standardize Dynatrace integration to Jenkins software delivery pipelines with shared libraries
Dynatrace Blog - Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build "performance-as-a-self-service"
Dynatrace Blog - Get started integrating Dynatrace into your Azure DevOps release pipelines
Dynatrace Blog - Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?
Medium - Keptn release 0.5.0 — Six updates to get excited about
Medium - Keptn now talks MS Teams: How we expand Keptn's footprint in the Microsoft world
Medium - On-boarding your custom application to Keptn— Part 2 of 2
Medium - On-boarding your custom application to Keptn on GKE— Part 1 of 2
Medium - On-boarding your custom application to Keptn on AKS — Part 1 of 2
Microsoft Open Source Blog - Five steps to add automated performance quality gates to Azure DevOps pipelines
Microsoft Open Source Blog - Adding automated performance quality gates using Keptn Pitometer
PERSONAL
LinkedIn Article - 2019 at Dynatrace: joining an industry leader
LinkedIn Article - Joining the Dynatrace team – challenge accepted
Medium - Misc Personal Blogs

Initiative and special projects

Code

 
Multi-service ecommerce demo application used in workshops and demos
> Latest Code > Older version
Multiple repos with Dynatrace demos and utilities
> Code
Dynatrace Alliances Team workshop scripts and content repos
> Code
Dynatrace Alliances cloud automation guides and utilities
> Code
Altassian BitBucket Pipes
> Dynatrace Code
> Keptn Code
> Demo App

Interviews / Panelist

   
NeoTys & Orasi
Performance Engineering Customer Event - Mar_11_2021
>LinkedIn
NeoTys & Orasi
Performance Engineering Customer Event - Dec_15_2020
>LinkedIn
DynatraceGo Mexico City
Interview with Alina Poulain - Oct_23_2019
>Reg Page
>Video