Learn how GitHub’s globally distributed teams use GitHub tooling to develop and design GitHub, collaborate with engineering, sales, marketing and legal and deploy more than 500 times a week. Experience ChatOps, feature toggles and refactoring in production based on life demos and real examples.

Agenda:
* Zen of GitHub as guiding philosophy for any new feature work, nature of features, internal and external communication
* remote nature of GitHub organization and its implications on standups, pair programming and working style (default to asynchronous)
* walk through the GitHub Flow based on examples from different teams (engineering, web site, legal, services, solution engineering)
* introduction of GitHub’s deployment API and life demo how to use it from Slack and Hubot
* introduction into ChatOps
* ChatOps examples from the DevOps team
* ChatOps in the context of continuous deployment at GitHub
* introduction to the confidence dashboard (deployment metrics)
* introduction to Haystack (exception monitor)
* Feature Toggles @ GitHub (based on flipper)
* Refactoring in production @ GitHub (based on scientist)
* Q & A