The ultimate guide to complicated systems - devopsdays Chattanooga 2019 Keynote

Building and maintaining distributed systems is hard. Industry tools and recommended practices are evolving at an ever-increasing velocity. New platform choices reduce infrastructure management and add operational complexity obscuring the value of operation skills. Often, bureaucratic decisions drive practices and tool choices. Jennifer Davis explores cultivating your path enabling technical and strategic direction with sustainable engineering practices.

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1. She/her
   

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2. SRE… DevOps…
   Agile... Lean…
   Velocity…
   Serverless,
   Kubernetes,
   Cloud Native…
   

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3. SRE… DevOps…
   Agile... Lean…
   Velocity…
   Serverless,
   Kubernetes,
   Cloud Native…
   Value Stream
   Mapping,
   Wardley Maps
   Continuous
   Security,
   Continuous
   Testing..
   

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4. SRE… DevOps…
   Agile... Lean…
   Velocity…
   Serverless,
   Kubernetes,
   Cloud Native…
   Value Stream
   Mapping,
   Wardley Maps
   Continuous
   Security,
   Continuous
   Testing..
   Observability,
   NoOps,
   NewOps
   

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5. @sigje
   What’s Next?
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6. The Project
   Baby Bit by Ashley McNamara is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
   

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7. No one defines value for you.
   Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash
   

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8. Understand State Transitions.
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9. Bit Learning by Ashley McNamara is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
   

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14. Baby Facepalm by Ashley McNamara is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
    

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17. Managed chaos
    builds resilience.
    Photo by Tim Cooper on Unsplash
    

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18. Documentation will be wrong.
    Photo by Daniel Koponyas on Unsplash
    

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19. Documentation doesn’t
    guarantee understanding.
    Photo by Sarah Norris on Unsplash
    

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20. You will make mistakes.
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21. Blameless Culture
    Photo by Rebrand Cities from Pexels
    

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22. Clean up continuously.
    Photo by The Honest Company on Unsplash
    

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23. Snowflakes are cool.
    

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24. Change is Inevitable.
    Photo by VanveenJF on Unsplash
    

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25. Bit by Ashley McNamara is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
    

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26. Recognize Trauma.
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27. Find Balance.
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28. You don’t
    have to do
    it alone.
    Bit Community by Ashley McNamara is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
    

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29. Bit Puppies and Bit Inclusion by Ashley McNamara is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
    

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30. Keep Learning.
    Bit by Ashley McNamara is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
    

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31. Microsoft Doc Learn modules
    Test Automation University
    

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32. Learn Modules
    Screenshot from Microsoft Learn site 11/12/2019
    

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33. Test Automation University
    Screenshot from Test Automation University site 11/12/2019
    

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