How devops improved my dev

3. The hotel wireless was terrible, sorry for the lack of pictures.
4. $ whoami
5. $ whoami $ cat .profile | grep export export GIT_AUTHOR="Florian Gilcher" export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="florian.gilcher@asquera.de" export GITHUB_NICK="skade" export GITHUB_ORGANIZATIONS="asquera,padrino" export TWITTER_NICK="@argorak" export TM_COMPANY="Asquera GmbH"
6. @argorak
7. $ whoami Ruby Programmer since 2003 Now a consultant specialising in backends... ... and team building. I run usergroups and organize conferences as a hobby.
8. http://asquera.de
9. http://padrinorb.com
10. http://eurucamp.org
11. “I don’t want to be woken up at night, so I call myself a developer.”
12. I set out to present a more dev-minded perspective on devops.
13. That was harder then I thought...
14. There’s a talk about the “transforming devs to devops” later on.
15. git push developer mindsets/devops
16. Whats the benefit, if you don’t do a lot of ops?
17. Vagrant Puppet Chef
18. Vagrant Puppet Chef
19. How did a devops mindset improve the software I write?
20. A bit of history about myself
21. I started my career in a typical agency job.
22. LAMP and the DEV/OPS split.
23. It wasn’t even that bad...
24. ...until projects got special.
25. scale scope
26. Suddenly it turned out that one of the most efficient teams was an admin, a programmer and a cup of coffee.
27. Example
28. An example One of our clients imports and reencodes videos from a constantly changing number of sources each day.
29. Sources FTP upload FTP fetch RSS feeds RSS feeds that are no RSS feeds And some more...
30. Destinations All of them need to be reencoded to a standard set of sizes and bitrates.
31. Simple approach
32. Single program with architecture
33. Same architecture, 3 processes
34. Why?
35. Videos per day
36. Critical failures last year
37. Deployments last year
38. New ways of discussing things.
41. Practical things learned in the process.
42. ... beyond writing daemons and stuff.
43. A different perspective on code.
44. Infrastructure as code.
45. Code for infrastructure.
46. Common CLI tools Common configurations styles Common way of doing things
47. Gives insight Well managable Well automatable
48. In general, I care less about internal quality of programs nowadays then about external quality.
49. My ugliest piece of code ran 1,5 years in production without a change.
50. Nobody ever noticed how horrible it was.
51. I evaluate new software differently.
52. “Ease of setup” is a red flag.
53. This especially applies to new and fancy databases.
54. Not having to push any buttons to start working a database is problematic, if not dangerous.
55. You might miss things along the way.
56. “Ease of non-trivial configuration” is far more important.
57. How to grade that?
58. Set up a production-like system.
59. Keep tally marks on how often it leaves you puzzled.
60. There is no such thing as “setting up production too early.”
61. Everything before that is childs play.
62. The big bangs always happen in production.
63. My favourite: Expensive loadbalancers that die during configuration and need to be shipped to the manufacturer.
64. Teams need to get used to their own systems.
65. Metrics and Logging are important in complex systems.
66. Most pure development teams underrate them and implement them too late.
67. They should be there from day one.
68. Last but not least: internal tooling can save you a lot of work.
69. Creative ways to talk about it even more.
71. But what about the humans?
72. Giving people say in many things makes them discuss many things.
73. There are two things I rarely see in teams with strict roles.
74. 1. Platform refactorings
75. Why? It always means that individual roles loose ground.
76. Why? This can get political very quick.
77. Why? Lack of skill.
78. 2. Code reviews
79. Why? Not enough staff that “is qualified” to review certain code.
80. The devops mindset takes away a lot of friction.
81. Less asking permission, more doing.
82. When your frontend developer changes your backend API, your varnish config, your deployment scripts and the puppet manifests before handing stuff off to review to implement a new feature, you are there.
83. Bonus points if said developer is the companies apprentice.
84. The devops mindset can be incredibly empowering.
85. Devops-minded teams can cope with missing team members easier.
86. Everyone knows what everything is roughly doing anyways.
87. Find hacks to gather and spread that knowledge across your team!
89. To sum up:
90. Teams with a strong devops culture: can handle more complexity
91. Teams with a strong devops culture: can handle more complexity can find more alternative approaches to problems.
92. Teams with a strong devops culture: can handle more complexity can find more alternative approaches to problems. are more likely to find solutions that handle well in production.
93. Their immediate answers are more complex.
94. Thank you for listening.
95. How did devops change your development style?