Ben Kepes of Clouderati fame joined us for the first ever DevOps conference in Israel - and spoke about the driving force behind DevOps in organizations today.
that go with it, together offer a revolutionary step-change in the way that we engineer complex systems:- a revolution that companies like Google and Netflix have embraced; a revolution that the rest of us ignore at our peril.” - WT Payne, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-17/google-s-gmail- outage-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come
and get more resilient over time are ‘antifragile’… We actively try to break our systems regularly so we find the weak spots… as a result we tend to survive large-scale outages better than more fragile services.” - Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix
piece of code is far from being done. It needs to work in all kinds of weird use cases. And it’s not only QA’s job to find all the bugs. Good developers want to ensure that the new features are not only coded, but tested and ultimately released to their users. Only then the task is really done.” - Matthias Marschall
enough. Every sysadmin needs to make sure it’s possible to re-create each part of the infrastructure at any time. When that slick, new script is under version control, written in a way others can understand and modify it, is their task really Done.” - Matthias Marschall
profiles. They have to take broader responsibilities: everyone needs to care about getting valuable features into the hands of their users, and everyone should pro- actively find ways to contribute to the solution of any release blocker, no matter what the problem is. They work with ‘Us’ spirit rather than ‘Them/their’.” - Isha Suri
by having a stringent focus on code issues and those related to the general site reliability. Plus, by being more operationally aware of the production context that our code lives within, developers can also design and build better software.” - Isha Suri