Arrested DevOps

Jez Humble discusses Continuous Delivery in DevOps, emphasizing benefits, testing, and architecture decisions. Talks about decentralization, employee empowerment, and common anti-patterns. Also explores language evolution and balances risk aversion with impact. Tech updates and game release are covered in the final chapter.

Transcript What are some common misconceptions about what DevOps is? What are some symptoms of "DevOps Smell"[1]? Development Operations vs Dev + Ops Is it really just about culture? Can the opinions of a tool help drive the culture? This is a theory Matt is marinating upon, and might be totally wrong. How can we avoid the "echo chamber" of DevOps discussion? Pete Ansible Nathen Remap your CAPS LOCK key as Ctrl key. Also new Supermarket site for Chef - supermarket.getchef.com Randi Anything BUT Jenkins. Trevor A little bit of Hodor and the Google Now voice thing. Matt Sunrise calendar for iOS and OS X.

What is software delivery? There are a lot of approaches to this subject- what does “software delivery” mean at PagerDuty? What is your idea of “best” way to deliver software, or line of best fit? What gets in the way of companies or individuals delivering software? -How do you mitigate and test for problems introduced by code changes? -Deployments? -Dependency issues? -External factors? What are some patterns and anti-patterns for consistent software delivery? On system rollback and totalised fields by Mark Burgess Checkouts Ranjib Universal Principles of Design Matt homesick - keep your dotfiles in sync! Trevor Willyouhack.me Fishing

Agenda What problems were you trying to solve? How did you (or will you) know when you are “happy”? What resistance did you encounter? What worked REALLY well? What worked less well? How Boeing merges its data centers with the Amazon and Microsoft clouds Check-Outs Chris Bands in Town Jeanne Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction The Night Circus Trevor OxDBE Jetbrains tools Chrome dev tools - change css media state Matt Pragmatic Programming book tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development Burnout.io

Episode 11: Etsy Examined - How the Best Do Their Business by Food Fight BOFH (the Bastard Operator From Hell) Check Outs Jon Cowie dmg cookbook rbenv cookbook David Yurkiewicz Pushover.net Pete Bellisano Buffalo Trace whiskey John Allspaw Lloyd Taylor "Hacking Your Organization" Trevor Shortcut-Fu Agents of Shield Matt Vimium - Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor Release! The Game

In today's world of web-scale IT, the ability to respond quickly to increased demand and traffic on your critical applications is an essential component of success. Scaling experts Steven Corona and Igor Papirov join Matt and Trevor to talk about why scaling matters, some good practices to keep in mind, and other tips and tricks for success in the dynamic world of modern applications.

One of the key technologies to help automate your DevOps environment is Configuration Management. There's a lot of chatter around what exactly this means, and how you can use it. Special panel guests Sean OMeara, Chris Webber, and Steven Murawksi join Matt and Trevor to talk about how Config Management can make your systems and stack more stable, predictable, and more fun to manage.

Matt’s popular blog post - Configuring SharePoint 2010 Search in a one-way trust scenario Food Fight - Episode 36: Roles, Environments, Attributes, and Data Bags The Goal by Elliot Goldratt Flipboard Pocket Pomodoro Vitamin-R Check-Outs Matt Vagrant 1.5 QuizUp Trevor .NET Fiddle Air Disasters One-Wipe Charlies Sasha Visual Studio Web Essentials 2013 Self Promotion for Introverts The Little Prince

Check-Outs Angela Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us SockDreams - @SockDreams and www.sockdreams.com Todd Best BBQ chicken receipt in the world on http://www.thepauperedchef.com/ : http://bit.ly/1chcmHQ Aberdeen report on DataCenter Downtime: How Much Does it Really Cost, free to download here: http://bit.ly/Mpd2E0 Matt Meez - Setup tool for Chef authoring Downtown Chicago Azure Meetup - Feb 27, 2013

Myths! The intro You’re either DevOps or you’re not The Company Management Beliefs DevOps only works for startups or web companies. DevOps doesn’t scale. You can’t do DevOps without being Agile Business Semantics Shops practicing DevOps should have a DevOps team. We can’t do DevOps because we need separation of duties. The Team Operations Assumptions DevOps means “developers do operations work” A DevOps is a sysadmin that uses config mgmt. DevOps is about hiring sysadmins who code. Developer Expectations DevOps means developers get admin access in production Developers cannot be trusted. The Tools DevOps only works with Open Source tools and operating systems (i.e., I can’t do DevOps in a Microsoft shop) The tools promote the DevOps cultural change. The wrap up -  DevOps doesn’t work. Reference Links A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware DevOps Cafe Episode 33 - Jez Humble Release Engineering Tools at Netflix - The Ship Show Keep Calm and PROD On - The Ship Show DevOps Cafe Episode 36 - Jeffrey Snover There's No Such Thing As A DevOps Team - ContinuousDelivery.com Check-Outs Matt gitdrunk.com Downtown Chicago Azure Meetup - Feb 27, 2013 Trevor Marvel Comics API Sascha DevOps meetup in Minneapolis Everyone should submit a talk for a conference! Damon QCon Conference - DevOps track in London in March Rundeck 2.0 just released