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Where Do We Go From Here?

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October 16, 2013
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Where Do We Go From Here?

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Transcript

  1. Where Do We Go From Here? or, “Listen to Mike

    Think Out Loud”

  2. Mike Fiedler Operations Datadog.com Twitter: @mikefiedler GitHub: @miketheman OpsSchool.org Chef

    Community Roller Derby Ref Skydiver ©Alex Erde

  3. The best technology fades into the background, because people don’t

    care about tech, they care about what it does. -Taylor Davidson, Jan 2012

  4. Can You Name This?

  5. ENIAC Wikimedia Commons

  6. "At first I thought I would never be able to

    understand the workings of the machine since this involved a knowledge of electronics that I did not have at all." -Adele Goldstine

  7. Time passes... we use computers more

  8. More computers used

  9. Administer ad·min·is·ter |ədˈminəstər| verb [ with obj. ] - manage

    and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.) - be responsible for the implementation or use of (law or resources)

  10. Find the SysAdmin!

  11. Some Job Titles • IT Technician • System Administrator •

    Database Administrator • Network Engineer • Security Engineer • Storage Engineer • Systems Engineer • Operations Engineer • Site Reliability Engineer • IT Manager/Director • Operations Manager • CTO/CIO

  12. We’re the devil.

  13. Role models?

  14. But we’re dedicated xkcd 705

  15. Regular Day on the Job

  16. How did YOU get here? Wikimedia Commons

  17. Us. Flickr: JJSchad

  18. Not exactly...

  19. or gal

  20. What is it we do? Science? Profession? Trade, Craft?

  21. Will we fade away? Flickr: laffy4k

  22. Mike’s 5 Steps to Self- Preservation Or, Things that start

    with ‘Learn’

  23. Learn Code

  24. Learn Communication

  25. Learn Business

  26. Learn From Others

  27. Learn To Learn More

  28. 5 Steps to Self- preservation • Learn code • Learn

    communication • Learn business • Learn from others • Learn to learn more • Learn about off-by-one errors

  29. Giving Back • Raise awareness • Mentor others • Contribute

    to OpsSchool • Be excellent to each other

  30. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Sir Arthur

    C. Clarke,1973 Clarke’s Third Law

  31. Questions, anyone?

  32. Speak to me about: Computers Skydiving Roller Derby OpsSchool.org Monitoring

    Automation DevOps #HugOps ©Sean Hale