Where Do We Go From Here?

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Where Do We Go From Here? or, “Listen to Mike Think Out Loud”

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Mike Fiedler Operations Datadog.com Twitter: @mikefiedler GitHub: @miketheman OpsSchool.org Chef Community Roller Derby Ref Skydiver ©Alex Erde

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The best technology fades into the background, because people don’t care about tech, they care about what it does. -Taylor Davidson, Jan 2012

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Can You Name This?

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ENIAC Wikimedia Commons

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"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

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Time passes... we use computers more

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More computers used

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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)

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Find the SysAdmin!

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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

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We’re the devil.

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Role models?

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But we’re dedicated xkcd 705

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Regular Day on the Job

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How did YOU get here? Wikimedia Commons

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Us. Flickr: JJSchad

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Not exactly...

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or gal

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

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Will we fade away? Flickr: laffy4k

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Mike’s 5 Steps to Self- Preservation Or, Things that start with ‘Learn’

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Learn Code

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Learn Communication

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Learn Business

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Learn From Others

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Learn To Learn More

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5 Steps to Self- preservation • Learn code • Learn communication • Learn business • Learn from others • Learn to learn more • Learn about off-by-one errors

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Giving Back • Raise awareness • Mentor others • Contribute to OpsSchool • Be excellent to each other

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"Any sufﬁciently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Sir Arthur C. Clarke,1973 Clarke’s Third Law

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Questions, anyone?