This 20-minute talk was given by Bridget Kromhout twice in March 2014:
March 12: http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Minneapolis/events/168426002/
March 19th: http://mtnwestdevops.org/2014/sessions (video forthcoming)
Abstract: I was a college-student BOFH, an ISP sysadmin, and an academic IT manager. If I wanted a curmudgeonly sysadmin, I could just look in a mirror. Most developers were unlikely to be granted root on any systems whatsoever, and servers were carefully hand-whittled works of art. You know, The Way Things Were.
Moving to a role doing operations at a developer-centric startup was both a culture shock and a great learning experience. I’ll discuss what worked for me (and what was challenging!) in terms of my transition to a DevOps practice. Spoiler alert: change is scary, but awesome developers on the team make it much easier for an old-school sysadmin to be assimilated into the DevOps of Borg.
How to Troubleshoot Apps for the Modern Connected Worker
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DevOps (March 2014)
1. HOW I
LEARNED
TO STOP
WORRYING
AND LOVE
DEVOPS
(CC) MMXIV
BRIDGET KROMHOUT
http://www.moviepostershop.com/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-
stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-movie-poster/IB40100
12. “If it moves, we track it. Sometimes we’ll
draw a graph of something that isn’t
moving yet, just in case it decides to make
a run for it.” Ian Malpass, Etsy
