Previous Talks

There are obvious challenges that we have tried to overcome with laptops and laptop carts such as battery life, OS updates, expensive hardware, asset management, security, and slow boot times. What if one solution took care of all those challenges? In this talk, I’ll discuss how you can utilize Google...

We want things to just work. Flip a light switch, the room is illuminated. Step on the accelerator, the car moves forward. Tap the brakes, it slows. Why should standing up an application be any different? Too often, developers are pulled into troubleshooting tasks such as XML configuration, setting build...

Faster, better, cheaper: Brian Daugherty will discuss how the more things change the more they stay the same. The fundamentals of creating, deploying and maintaining quality software have changed little over time. Tools and techniques evolved and along with an exponential rate of change and have resulted in an industry...

Last year, Canvas was selected to replace D2L as CU Boulder's Learning Management System. In Spring 2018, the first semester Canvas was available to the campus, 30% of classes made the leap from D2L. James Ashby and others from the Academic Technology Applications Program will share some of the key...

Every moment, thousands of users traverse hundreds of campus web sites on internal external networks easily and seamlessly, thanks to single sign on (SSO) and federated identity management. Like many vital campus services such as network, power, and ac, online identity management (OIM) works quietly in the background, securing access...

Long gone are the days of tracking your degree progress on pen and paper with a course catalog. CU's Degree Audit (uAchieve from CollegeSource) allows students and their advisors to, at a click of a button, see how all of their courses apply to the degree requirements of their declared,...

Adrian Cockcroft is vice president of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services, where he focuses on the needs of cloud-native and “all-in” customers and leads the AWS open source community development program. Adrian has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology and is fascinated by...

Technology stacks that power our applications love to record system activity at any given moment. Every visit, page load, click, API call, database read, error, and failure and more is likely captured and logged. When things slow-down or break, one of the first places developers and administrators check are system...

IT is complex. It's too easy to lose time and productivity untangling applications, servers, and dependencies to perform simple tasks, like upgrading a software library. Ansible to the rescue! Ansible is a powerful IT automation and orchestration engine for software development. Using playbooks that are human and machine readable, Ansible...

How should CU handle a firehose of real-time data? Every minute, data rushes into the university from student information systems, social media, IoT, new applications and more. What if CU could know and respond to every single event? Streaming data is a new concept for a clean, optimized system. In...