Why You're

Destroying

DevOps

Michael Ducy / @mfdii

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The Growth of DevOps

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The problem with a
growing community

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Hype Cycle

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DevOps Engineers

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DevOps Tools

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New People

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New "Experts"

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The Cool Kids

Communities

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Recruiters

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Marketing


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The confluence ... led me to reflect on the true essence of DevOps. It occurred to me that it’s not about making developers and sysadmins report to the same VP. It’s not about automating all your configuration procedures. It’s not about tipping up a Jenkins server, or running your applications in the cloud, or releasing your code on Github. It’s not even about letting your developers deploy their code to a PaaS. The true essence of DevOps is empathy.

--Jeff Sussna

Here’s the secret. I’ll tell you EXACTLY what devops means.


Devops means giving a shit about your job enough to not pass the buck. Devops means giving a shit about your job enough to want to learn all the parts and not just your little world.


Developers need to understand infrastructure. Operations people need to understand code. People need to fucking work with each other and not just occupy space next to each other.


--John Vincent

New People

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Done well, [OUR WORK] enhances the safety, contentment, knowledge and freedom of both the authors and users of the system.


--Adam Jacob

Recruiters

  • Understand the means vs the end
  • Recruit for both
  • Lean, Agile, Kanban, Flow, Anti-Fragility


  • Automation, Monitoring, Programming Ability are the means.

    The end: INCREASING the flow of work.

    Help us hire the people that understand this

    Marketers

  • Understand the means vs the end
  • Sell the means, quantify the end


  • Give us quantifiable stories of success
    we can use to convince others that
    DevOps is THE movement of the future.


    New People &
    New Experts


    Cool Kids


    Recruiters


    Marketers

    Why You're

    Destroying

    DevOps

    Michael Ducy / @mfdii