Boring Is Powerful

Jon makes the case, at DevOpsDays London 2017, that Boring Is Powerful. There's video of this content at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90EUfSpk96M

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2. BORING IS POWERFUL_ JON TOPPER | @jtopper | he/him/his
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4. “We have come to know, or rather to believe, that boredom is not part of the natural lot of man, but can be avoided by a sufficiently vigorous pursuit of excitement”. - Bertrand Russell, 1930 @jtopper
5. BIG DATA BLOCKCHAIN INTERNET OF THINGS CONTAINERS SCHEDULERS MACHINE LEARNING AUGMENTED REALITY VOICE INTERFACES @jtopper
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8. BORING IS POWERFUL_
9. ON CALL: BORING_ @jtopper
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14. GITHUB STARS MONGODB/MONGO_ @jtopper
15. VERSION DATE NOTABLE FEATURES 1.2 December 2009 1.4 March 2010 Background index creation. Log rotation. 1.6 August 2010 Sharding & replica sets. 1.8 March 2011 Data journalling. Sparse & covering indices. 2.0 August 2011 Authentication 2.2 July 2012 DB level locking. Backup tool backs up indexes. 2.4 March 2013 RBAC. TLS Support. Modular authentication* 2.6 April 2014 HTTP interface disabled. Audit logging* SNMP* 3.0 March 2015 WiredTiger optional. Large replica sets (50). Query introspection. 3.2 December 2015 WiredTiger default. Encryption at rest* 3.4 November 2016 Passes Jepsen test suite. Views. Log redaction* * Enterprise @jtopper
16. https:/ /jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-4-0-rc3 CALL ME MAYBE MONGODB_ @jtopper
17. BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS_ Availability Agility Cost Data integrity Fashion Performance Regulatory Compliance Scalability Security @jtopper
18. GITHUB STARS FEATURE OVERLAY_ TLS Audit logs Auth Jepsen pass @jtopper
19. FASHIONABLENESS DECREASES OVER TIME_ @jtopper
20. FEATURE AVAILABILITY INCREASES OVER TIME_ @jtopper
21. QUALITY INCREASES OVER TIME_ @jtopper
22. RELIABILITY INCREASES OVER TIME_ @jtopper
23. SECURITY INCREASES OVER TIME_ @jtopper
24. COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE INCREASES OVER TIME_ @jtopper
25. STACK OVERFLOW MONGODB QUESTIONS_ @jtopper
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27. SOFTWARE BECOMES BORING OVER TIME_ @jtopper
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29. PEACE AMONG WORLDS_
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31. DEVELOPMENT CONSIDERATIONS_ Deployment Packaging Language Support Development Environments Test Harnesses
32. OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS_ Deployment Upgrades Clustering Load Balancing Scale Up Scale Out Monitoring Authentication Logging Capacity Planning Audit Backup Recovery Data Lifecycle Encryption in transit Access Control Packaging License Costs Language Support Encryption at rest Support Availability Performance Tuning Development Environments Hireability Test Harnesses
34. USER CONSIDERATIONS_ @jtopper
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36. ONLY INNOVATE TO DIFFERENTIATE_ @jtopper
37. BORING IS POWERFUL_ Fashionable software carries risk Consider the business context Take risks only for differentiators @jtopper
38. KEEP IN TOUCH_ http:/ /www.scalefactory.com/ https:/ /github.com/scalefactory @jtopper jon@scalefactory.com