The Dark side of the Stack

Listen to the story and insights of a Developer who became a System Administrator to a heavily trafficked production Ruby on Rails app. We'll go over benefits of having System Administration knowledge and how it can help you day to day. Knowing a little about how everything works in deployment will help you design better systems and handle conversations with system administrators running your servers.

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1. The Dark Side of the Stack A developer’s journey into Systems Administration http://www.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Side-Of-The-Moon-352187968
2. Aaron Kalin Programming for 17 years Running game servers for 11 years Ran 32 servers at Treehouse in 2 locations * Has changed hue several times Red Hair for 4 years* @martinisoft Now run 75 servers at DNSimple in 3 countries
3. Menu How did I get here? What is a System Administrator? Lessons Learned
4. How did I get here?
5. About 2 years ago Started as a developer
6. Web Database Everything
7. Web Web Database Code Challenges Code Challenges
8. co-founder: Want to try managing it with Chef? me: Shouldn’t we be using a configuration tool like Chef to manage this stuff? me: Sure! I got this.
9. Learning new things is hard
10. 2 Years Later Built (and re-built) the Treehouse Chef setup Contributed patches to Chef, Cookbooks, and testing tools. Maintainer of several cookbooks Spoke at ChefConf
11. What is a System Administrator?
12. Copyright 2006 Sylvain Pedneault Me Website Firefighting
13. Security
14. System Architecture
15. Lessons Learned
16. NEGATIVES
17. Stressful Copyright NBC Universal Television
18. Thankless
19. Copyright 1999 20th Century Fox Misunderstood
20. Positives!
21. Polyglot
22. Protocols Networking &
24. DevOps is NOT a Job Title
25. DEPLOYED TO PRODUCTION OPS PROBLEM NOW STAHP!
26. Write Code >> Test >> Deploy || Developers { System Administrators { Agile/Scrum { ??? { DevOps in a nutshell
27. Challenge Find a tweet congratulating an ops team for keeping a site online Must be at least 30 minutes ago
28. Summary Learn the command line Try setting up your own server Thank your friendly neighborhood sysadmin Automate that server
29. Thank you! @martinisoft
30. Resources Conquering the command line http://conqueringthecommandline.com/ Ops School http://bit.ly/1jbviMt