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Containers will not fixyour broken culture

(and other hard truths)

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lives: Minneapolis,

Minnesota

works: Pivotal

podcasts: Arrested DevOps

organizes: devopsdays

Bridget Kromhout

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Traded oncall… …for more travel (Similar effect on sleep)

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Docker in Production: Reality, Not Hype

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Deconstructing a Python/Django monolith into Dockerized Go microservices

(as was the style at the time)

How to win at buzzword bingo:

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Pizza &

diplomacy

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“Any organization that designs a system… will produce a design

whose structure is a copy of the organization's

communication structure.”

Mel Conway

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“Nothing’s the same anymore.”

Babylon 5

Jeffrey Sinclair

Image credit: Astroengine

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Legacy: your

customers & money

live here

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Visvesvaraya Museum, Bengaluru

IBM 1401 (in use until 1989)

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“It’s not necessary to change.

Survival is not mandatory.”

—W. Edwards Deming

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Patrick Debois Andrew Clay Shafer

Agile System Administration

2008

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Patrick Debois Andrew Clay Shafer

Agile System Administration

2008

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“Effective devops tools enable automation

without isolating humans from the automation

process”

Jennifer Davis

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right

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easy

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Containers as b O U N D A R Y object

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The Wall of Confusion

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The Wall of Confusion

yolo nope

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Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity Klein, Feltovich, Bradshaw, Woods (2004)

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non-violent communication & emotional literacy

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“Understanding is a

three-edged sword”

Babylon 5Ambassador Kosh

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distributed systems free-association game

Image credit: Kyle Kingsbury, Jepsen project

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CA

CP AP

AvailabilityConsistency

Partition Tolerance

“a partition is a time bound

on communication.”Eric Brewer

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Image credit: Vasa Museet

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Image credit: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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navigating choices

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evaluating progress

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Process: scar tissue from past

failure

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Staying on top of

computering(as one does)

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The Wall of Confusion (here there be White Walkers)

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Thank you!