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
   

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2. Hi! I’m Marta
   Infrastructure Developer @ Finn.no
   @a_meba
   

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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
   

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4. A
   CURIOUS
   CHILD
   From cosmonaut to literary
   critic
   01.
   

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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.
   

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6. AN
   OUTSIDER
   Putting your foot in the door
   02.
   

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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
   

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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
   

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9. YOU’VE
   GOT
   THIS
   Why am I here?
   03.
   

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10. How to fit six years of tech evolution on one slide?
    It’s fascinating
    how IT systems
    evolve
    

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11. Applications as a
    Service
    

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12. Applications as a
    Service
    Maturing of cloud
    providers and
    their services
    

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13. Applications as a
    Service
    Maturing of cloud
    providers and
    their services
    Microservice
    architecture
    

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14. Applications as a
    Service
    Maturing of cloud
    providers and
    their services
    Microservice
    architecture
    Internet became
    a darker place
    

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15. ABSTRA-
    CTIONS
    Continuously more complex
    systems
    04.
    

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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
    

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17. The evolution of our
    infrastructure
    systems seems to
    follow a fractal-like
    pattern.
    

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18. Questions?
    marta@paciorkowska.pl
    @a_meba
    This talk will be published on:
    https://thatmarta.wordpress.com
    THANKS!
    

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19. CREDITS
    Give credit where it’s due:.
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