a career how and Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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1 a career how and

2 Hi, I m Theo I ve made a career this stuff

3 Career what s that?

4 A career is a pursuit; a willingness to mature; patience to become exceptional

5 WANTED: Expert: Java

6 APPLICANT: Java Expert: I learned that in school had one class I graduated last year applying for: expert

7 APPLICANT: Java Expert: I learned that in school had one class I graduated last year applying for: expert Bullshit

8 To be truly excellent one must treat it as a craft. one must become a craftsman. through experience learn discipline. and through practice achieve excellence.

9 step #1 educate yourself.

10 step #2 be disciplined

11 step #3 learn from & share with your peers

12 step #4 be patient. experience takes time (and mistakes)

13 A Career in... this stuff

14 This stuff is: Web Operations

15 But, I do: Web Development... UI Development... Usability... Systems Engineering...

16 Bullshit

17 The Web changed everything

18 The Cloud only made us realize it

19 Specifically SaaS (your website is SaaS)

20 Your Product users systems features

21 Your Product

22 One Copy

23 One Copy must evolve

24 One Copy must evolve must compete

25 One Copy must evolve must compete must perform

26 One Copy must evolve must compete must perform must deliver

27 Must Operate

28 What does it take?

29 DevOps

30 DevOps is bullshit

31 That s not fair (just like life)

32 DevOps is not wrong...

33 DevOps is incomplete, is interpreted wrong, and is too isolated

34 We need

35 *Ops

36 .*Ops

37 ^(?<dept>.+)ops$

38 Everyone in your organization needs

39 Operational Mentality

40 Your Job is to build systems that operate

41 Your Job

42 Javascript HTML MySQL C/C++ Browsers PHP CSS Java Databases Perl Your Job Erlang

43 Javascript HTML MySQL C/C++ Browsers PHP CSS Java Databases Perl Your Job Erlang Ops Job

44 Javascript HTML MySQL C/C++ Browsers PHP CSS Java Databases Perl Your Job Erlang Deployment Ops Job Resource Planning Packaging Monitoring Provisioning Production Troubleshooting Root Cause Analysis Oncall

45 Magic operations pixie dust doesn t exist

46 Provisioning virtual systems has been fast, cheap and easy ever since systems became virtual

47 Managing risk and liabilities is simple, fast and painless...

48 if you skip it

49 analogy time : security :

50 security is not a feature

51 security is not a deliverable in a project plan

52 security is not phase 2

53 security is a state of mind it is a state of being it is a mentality

54 operations is no different

55 Now back to your job

56 Javascript HTML MySQL C/C++ Browsers PHP CSS Java Databases Perl Your Job Erlang Deployment Ops Job Resource Planning Packaging Monitoring Provisioning Production Troubleshooting Root Cause Analysis Oncall

57 Javascript HTML MySQL C/C++ Browsers PHP CSS Java Databases Perl Your Job Erlang Deployment Ops Job Resource Planning Packaging Monitoring Provisioning Production Troubleshooting Root Cause Analysis Oncall

58 MySQL HTML Javascript PHP CSS Java C/C++ Your Job Ops Job Packaging Perl Deployment Browsers Databases Erlang Generalist Resource Planning Monitoring Provisioning Production Troubleshooting Root Cause Analysis Oncall

59 rule #1 what you build will break

60 you can

61 build operational software

62 you must

63 think operationally

64 start by turning the tables

65 DevOps has been about putting more dev into ops

66 DevOps needs balance put more ops into dev

67 Back to your organization

68 CIO/CTO is responsible for operations in a SaaS company

69 Titles don t matter COO/CIO/CTO/CMIFRO

70 Someone has to make things run make them run better

71 That Someone is...

72 You

73 this mentality is the beginning of your career in web operations

74 this mentality is the beginning of your career in web operations anything