Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Where Do We Go From Here?
Search
Mike Fiedler
October 16, 2013
Technology
0
150
Where Do We Go From Here?
Velocity NYC 2013
Mike Fiedler
October 16, 2013
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Mike Fiedler
See All by Mike Fiedler
Fixing AWS with AWS
miketheman
1
130
HOW DO YOU KNOW iT'S WORKiNG
miketheman
0
100
Instrumenting Application Stack in Dynamically Scaling Environment
miketheman
0
65
Giving (and Taking) Back
miketheman
0
57
What's In This Cookbook?
miketheman
0
56
Treating Your Infrastructure Like Garbage
miketheman
2
1.7k
MongoDB - Operations Best Practices
miketheman
1
120
MongoDB in the Cloud - Amazon Web Services
miketheman
3
110
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
AIエージェントによる業務効率化への飽くなき挑戦-AWS上の実開発事例から学んだ効果、現実そしてギャップ-
nasuvitz
2
750
SCONE - 動画配信の帯域を最適化する新プロトコル
kazuho
1
360
ハノーファーメッセ2025で見た生成AI活用ユースケース.pdf
hamadakoji
1
450
生成AI時代のPythonセキュリティとガバナンス
abenben
0
130
OSSで50の競合と戦うためにやったこと
yamadashy
3
970
[2025年10月版] Databricks Data + AI Boot Camp
databricksjapan
1
260
AI時代の開発を加速する組織づくり - ブログでは書けなかったリアル
hiro8ma
1
310
プレイドのユニークな技術とインターンのリアル
plaidtech
PRO
1
340
AWS DMS で SQL Server を移行してみた/aws-dms-sql-server-migration
emiki
0
220
Bill One 開発エンジニア 紹介資料
sansan33
PRO
4
14k
CREが作る自己解決サイクルSlackワークフローに組み込んだAIによる社内ヘルプデスク改革 #cre_meetup
bengo4com
0
320
CNCFの視点で捉えるPlatform Engineering - 最新動向と展望 / Platform Engineering from the CNCF Perspective
hhiroshell
0
140
Featured
See All Featured
Making Projects Easy
brettharned
120
6.4k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
jacobian
280
24k
Balancing Empowerment & Direction
lara
5
700
Testing 201, or: Great Expectations
jmmastey
45
7.7k
The Cult of Friendly URLs
andyhume
79
6.6k
Six Lessons from altMBA
skipperchong
29
4k
The Power of CSS Pseudo Elements
geoffreycrofte
80
6k
Building Adaptive Systems
keathley
44
2.8k
Java REST API Framework Comparison - PWX 2021
mraible
34
8.9k
CSS Pre-Processors: Stylus, Less & Sass
bermonpainter
359
30k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
95
14k
Building an army of robots
kneath
305
46k
Transcript
Where Do We Go From Here? or, “Listen to Mike
Think Out Loud”
Mike Fiedler Operations Datadog.com Twitter: @mikefiedler GitHub: @miketheman OpsSchool.org Chef
Community Roller Derby Ref Skydiver ©Alex Erde
The best technology fades into the background, because people don’t
care about tech, they care about what it does. -Taylor Davidson, Jan 2012
Can You Name This?
ENIAC Wikimedia Commons
"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
Time passes... we use computers more
More computers used
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)
Find the SysAdmin!
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
We’re the devil.
Role models?
But we’re dedicated xkcd 705
Regular Day on the Job
How did YOU get here? Wikimedia Commons
Us. Flickr: JJSchad
Not exactly...
or gal
What is it we do? Science? Profession? Trade, Craft?
Will we fade away? Flickr: laffy4k
Mike’s 5 Steps to Self- Preservation Or, Things that start
with ‘Learn’
Learn Code
Learn Communication
Learn Business
Learn From Others
Learn To Learn More
5 Steps to Self- preservation • Learn code • Learn
communication • Learn business • Learn from others • Learn to learn more • Learn about off-by-one errors
Giving Back • Raise awareness • Mentor others • Contribute
to OpsSchool • Be excellent to each other
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Sir Arthur
C. Clarke,1973 Clarke’s Third Law
Questions, anyone?
Speak to me about: Computers Skydiving Roller Derby OpsSchool.org Monitoring
Automation DevOps #HugOps ©Sean Hale