Bridget Kromhout is a developer advocate at Microsoft who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She hosts the Arrested DevOps podcast and organizes devopsdays conferences. Some of her interests include complex distributed systems, socio-technical systems, and navigating challenges in technology ecosystems.

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welcome to MSFT

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lives:
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
works:
Microsoft
podcasts:
Arrested
DevOps
organizes:
devopsdays
Bridget Kromhout

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previously, on #opslife…

4. Our mission is to transform
how the world builds software
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previously, on #devrel…

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Computers are easy;
people are hard

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Massively scalable fault-tolerant
distributed systems require a
significant engineering effort to build
and operate; complex socio-technical
systems are even more challenging.
Computers are easy;
people are hard

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complex
ecosystems

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navigating deep waters

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Attack
Kitten
growls
about
Day 2

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Attack Kitten Cat Reality Check

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just say no to “awesome mode” vs “sad mode”
Image credit: stock
bimodal IT?!?

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Image credit: James Ernest

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91F: yolo into
production!
samizdat.cc/cyoa
yolo!

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“In a world that celebrates pioneers—
be the settlers instead.”
— Laura Bell (@lady_nerd)

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silos are for grain
not actually devops
still computers

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let’s talk Azure!