In many DevOps talks, you see a speaker from a renowned tech company stand up and describe a perfect utopia of an environment. You look at the perfect environment and dedicated hordes of senior engineers they describe, and you despair of ever getting to that point. Your environment looks nothing like that. Surprise– their environment doesn’t really look like that either! In this talk, a speaker from an unnamed tech unicorn describes their amazing environment– and then what they just said gets translated from “thought leader” into plain English for you by an official translator. Stop feeling sad– everything is secretly terrible!

1. DevOps Theory vs. Practice
A Song of Ice and Tire-Fire
William Manning
Baruch Sadogursky

2. Senior SRE Leader at Google
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
SVP of Thoughts at Facebook
Obviously better than you
Baruch Sadogursky
Thought Leader, Disruptive
Innovator
Disclaimer: absolutely none of the above is true.
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3. Native proficiency in English and Bad English
Fluent in Thought Leader gibberish
Has a secret bunker for the robot apocalypse
Professional Tinfoil Hat Haberdasher
William Manning
Official Hiptech Translator
Disclaimer: absolutely none of the above is true.
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4. Baruch,
Thought
Leader Away!
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5. Everybody's software
must be releasable
at absolutely any
time
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6. Everyone must have
100% test
automation
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7. We do Continuous
Security well.
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8. Your greatest
threat is an outage.
Not an employee.
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9. VMs are the enemy of
DevOps. This is where
you must focus your
innovation.
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10. You are a beautiful unique
snowflake, as are your
problems.
No vendor could possibly
understand them.
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11. Our company is based in SF
because that’s where the best
engineers are.
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12. THANK
YOU!
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13. Baruch Sadogursky
Chief Sticker Officer
@jbaruch
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14. William Manning
Senior Solutions Architect
@williammanning
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15. How did we
get here?
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17. TIME FOR BULLET
POINTS
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21. Cargo Cult
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22. Context Is Key
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28. Let’s talk
maturity
models
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29. Introducing
maturity
models
• “A maturity model is a tool that
helps people assess the current
effectiveness of a person or group
and supports figuring out what
capabilities they need to acquire
next in order to improve their
performance. In many circles
maturity models have gained a bad
reputation, but although they can
easily be misused, in proper hands
they can be helpful.”
• -
Martin Fowler
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30. Introducing
maturity
models
• “A maturity model is a tool that
helps people assess the current
effectiveness of a person or group and
supports figuring out what
capabilities they need to acquire next
in order to improve their
performance.
• In many circles maturity
models have gained a bad
reputation, but although they can
easily be misused, in proper
hands they can be helpful.”
• -
Martin Fowler
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31. Maturity model components
Evaluation factors
Scoring methodology
Self assessment vs 3rd party assessment capability
Progress tracking
Visualization
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32. Maturity Model
Examples
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33. Simple model
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34. Progress planning
Target
Today
In 2Q
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35. Leader board
Team A
Team B
Team C
Team D
Team E
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38. A different
approach
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40. Define your factor weights
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41. Account for different teams’ priorities
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42. Model definition example
System config as Code The infrastructure configuration is managed as code - e.g. no manual processes for configuring/setting
up/ infrastructure.
Differentiating: Infrastructure operates without any manual processes. All changes to the
infrastructure or infrastructure capabilities are done through automation and policy only.
Complete: Infrastructure operates without any manual processes. Some infrequent administrative
activities may be initiated manually (although the activities themselves must be automated).
Partial (Most): Infrastructure operates without any manual processes. Some infrequent
administrative activities may be manual, pending automation.
Partial (Much): Infrastructure operates with significant automation. Some processes still manual;
pending automation.
Partial (Some): Infrastructure requires significant care and feeding. Many processes still manual;
pending automation.
No Support: While some functions may be automated, they are generally kicked-off manually; and
many functions are still fully manual. Large backlog of automation items.
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43. Applying maturity models: DOs and DONT’s
Only use primary colors
Involve your teams in the model definition
Let team self assess first and then assess together
Partner with forward looking teams first
Remember being at 100% is not a goal the model has to have a
stretch goal
Evolve the model from time to time
And ….
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44. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MaturityModel.html
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Our message is:

45. Q&A and links
• @jbaruch
• @williammanning
• https://jfrog.com/shownotes
• The slides
• The video (tomorrow)
• All the links
• Ratings, comments
• Raffle
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46. Things that are not questions
● Your résumé
● Calling bullshit on the entire premise of
the talk
● A long rambling story with no point
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