From Ruby apps to large-scale distributed systems

Navigating technology as a self-taught outsider.

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1. From Ruby apps to large-scale distributed systems Navigating technology as a self-taught outsider Marta Paciorkowska Ada Lovelace Day, Oslo 8/10/2019
2. Hi! I’m Marta Infrastructure Developer @ Finn.no @a_meba
3. From cosmonaut to literary critic Putting your foot in the door 02 A CURIOUS CHILD AN OUTSIDER 01 Continuously more complex systems ABSTRACTIONS 04 YOU’VE GOT THIS Why am I here? 03
4. A CURIOUS CHILD From cosmonaut to literary critic 01.
5. ASPIRING COSMONAUT Decided my career at age 7. A STRING THEORY FAN In primary school, I had a crush on the Backstreet Boys and Richard Feynman. NGO WORKER …and a starving translator. FIRST PROGRAM ~ 1995 Thank you, Logo turtle and Mrs. teacher from CS class. STUDIED ENGLISH LITERATURE Astronomy was my original plan. IN TECH SINCE 2013 Wrote open source Ruby code for config management.
6. AN OUTSIDER Putting your foot in the door 02.
7. junior jobs “Are they paying me enough?” no connections gaps in knowledge constantly having to prove oneself THE BAD fuck the status quo “I don’t deserve the shitty software” the beginner’s mind mobility openness to change THE GOOD
8. impostor syndrome not being taken seriously misogyny, xenophobia, prejudice, stereotypes crying in the bathroom “You’d be a distraction if we hired you” insecurities insecurities insecurities insecurities THE UGLY
9. YOU’VE GOT THIS Why am I here? 03.
10. How to fit six years of tech evolution on one slide? It’s fascinating how IT systems evolve
11. Applications as a Service
12. Applications as a Service Maturing of cloud providers and their services
13. Applications as a Service Maturing of cloud providers and their services Microservice architecture
14. Applications as a Service Maturing of cloud providers and their services Microservice architecture Internet became a darker place
15. ABSTRA- CTIONS Continuously more complex systems 04.
16. Full computers that we built systems from. Isolated processes without virtualization. Completely abstracting away the server. Virtual computers that can fit on a server. An orchestra of containers inside clusters. SERVERS CONTAINERS SERVERLESS VMs KUBERNETES
17. The evolution of our infrastructure systems seems to follow a fractal-like pattern.
18. Questions? marta@paciorkowska.pl @a_meba This talk will be published on: https://thatmarta.wordpress.com THANKS!
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