NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE BEFORE 6:30!
6:30pm Doors open
6:30-7pm Social time
7pm: Speaker starts
9pm: Meeting ends

Speaker 1: TBD

Speaker 2: Tom Limoncelli

Title:Operational Excellence in April Fools Pranks: Being Funny Is Serious Work!

Abstract:

One of the most high stakes launch you can do is the April Fools Prank (AFP). The usual best practices dont always work & there is no second chance: you cant just re-launch on April 2nd. Many silos must sign off on the plan, yet the plan must be kept secret. Beta testing is particularly difficult. Loads shift from zero to millions in one day with little room for mistakes.

In this talk Ill discuss how to communicate across the company to get buy-in, how to load test using dark launches, rollbacks using feature flags, & other techniques for assuring a high stakes launch happens correctly. Ill include stories from many AFPs both that Ive observed & been a part of.