Ignite DevOps Days Pittsburgh

Slides from an ignite talk at DevOps Days Pittsburgh.

Transcript

2. Ignite talks 20 slides 5 minutes 6 stories
3. • Community Director • Co-host of the Food Fight Show Podcast • @nathenharvey Nathen Harvey
6. Best Practices - Infrastructure as Code •Embrace the uncertain path to certain delight
7. Stages of Learning - Shuhari • Shuhari - first learn, then detach, and finally transcend • shu - "obey" - traditional wisdom • ha - "detach" - break with tradition • ri - "separate" - transcend
9. Walk This Way • “Oh, hell no! This is hillbilly gibberish” • “I don’t understand this code” https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photo/default.aspx?photographID=7360 http://www.mikethefanboy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Aerosmith-005.jpg • “What the hell are they doing to our song?” • “It works fine on my machine”
10. Walk This Way The 80s: The Decade That Made Us
11. Quit Your Job! •It’ll be OK •Be active in the community •Step out of the echo chamber •Step out of your comfort zone
12. You are responsible... •For your learning •For your development •For your career •For your teammates •For lots of important things
13. ...but you’re not alone •Find a mentor •Lean on your peers •Mentor someone •Give back
15. API First!
16. To Do •Put dev and ops in the same room •Take a whole-systems view of your technology platform •Reinforce culture with technology, and vice versa •Take responsibility •Trust your teammates
17. To Stop Doing •Mislabeling things •Hoarding information •Looking for someone to blame •Waiting for someone else to transform your business
18. Culture & Tools
19. Stories •Incident Management •Naming Things •Best Practices •Being a generalist •Quit your Job •Tools Matter
20. Thanks! •@nathenharvey •bit.ly/farmer-nathen