Adventures in DevOps

PanelCharles Max WoodLee WhalenScott NixonJoined by Special Guest: Priyanka SharmaSummaryPriyanka Sharma gives an intro to the tool chain crisis; the panel shares their perspective on the crisis and where they see this problem. The panel considers how to solve this problem and Priyanka outlines a solution. She gives examples of how to start the data modeling process she believes will help solve this crisis along with suggesting guard rails for developers. The panel discusses this solution and considers how this will work in startups and smaller companies compared to well-established companies with their own tooling. Priyanka shares how to overcome the “we invented it here” syndrome. The panel considers how to choose the tools and the criteria to follow when considering tools. The panel asks Priyanka about The Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Priyanka explains how it works and how projects are submitted and chosen. She shares where she thinks the DevOps industry is going and how the true promise of DevOps can only be reached by putting it in the hands of developers. The panel ends with a discussion on developer compensation problems, an increase of workloads and the benefits and need for remote work. 🎯 Picks:Lee Whalen:http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/http://boringtechnology.club/ Scott Nixon:Byron Cook, Amazon | AWS re:Inforce 2019 https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/ Priyanka Sharma:https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/ Keynote: Commercial Open Source Business Models - Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder & CEO, GitLab https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36356 Go Remote- https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/#resources Charles Max Wood:Air Conditioninghttps://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or The ExpanseSpecial Guest: Priyanka Sharma .

PanelCharles Max WoodScott NixonLee WhalenJoined by Special Guest: Ashar RizqiSummaryAshar Rizqi, co-founder and CEO of Blameless, Inc., shares his approach to taking an unreliable system and making it reliable. The panel discusses the importance of maintaining a blameless culture. Ashar explains what an error budget is and principles to use when creating an error budget. The panel considers the benefits of using an error budget. What to measure and how to measure for reliability are considered and the panel discusses how to manage the data received. Ashar explains the importance of cultures and how this affects reliability. The panel asks Ashar about Blameless, Inc; Ashar explains what they are all about, what they do and what types of companies need Blameless, Inc.🎯 Picks:Charles Max Wood:https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/Lee W:https://restic.net/ https://www.backblaze.com/b2/ Scott Nixon:https://fs.blog/mental-models/ The Great Mental Models https://devops.com/devops-shift-left-avoid-failure/ Ashar Rizqi:Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Special Guest: Ashar Rizqi.