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- 1. DevOps Hiring Why DevOps isn’t (part of) a Job Title Ken Sheppardson Director of DevOps, CrowdFlower May 16, 2012
- 2. My Background 1988 B.S.E. Aerospace Engineering University of Michigan 1990 M.S.E. Aerospace Engineering University of Michigan 1992 M.S. Engineering-Economic Systems Stanford University 1990 – 1993 Aerospace/Systems Engineer NASA Langley Research Ctr 1993 – 1995 Consulting Engineer StatDesign / Ford Motor Co. 1995 – 1996 Consulting Services Manager Knowledge Revolution 1996 – 1997 Co-Founder InGenius Technologies 1997 – 1999 Senior Application Engineer NetGravity 1999 – 2000 Operations Mgr/Sr Product Manager Personify 2000 – 2006 Consultant KCS Consulting 2006 – 2008 Senior Data Operations Engineer Jigsaw 2008 – 2011 Independent Consultant 2011 Software/Operations Engineer Change.org 2012 Director of Development Operations CrowdFlower
- 3. CrowdFlower • CrowdFlower takes large, information-heavy projects and breaks them into small tasks that are distributed to millions of contributors or workers worldwide • CrowdFlower’s technology platform – Manages 3+ million global “workforce” – Controls for quality at massive scale – Aggregates the verifiable results
- 4. IBM 704 1954
- 5. Development Operations Change Stability Add New Features Optimize Performance Deploy Test & Benchmark
- 8. AirBnB
- 10. The habitat of the System Administrator is shrinking
- 11. 10+ Deploys per Day Dev and ops cooperation at Flickr John Allspaw & Paul Hammond Velocity 2009 Slides http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys- per-day-dev-and-ops-cooperation-at-flickr Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOe18KhtT 4
- 12. Allspaw / Hammond 2009
- 13. Tools Culture Automated Infrastructure Respect Shared Version Control Trust One Step Build Healthy attitude about failure Feature Flags Avoid blame Shared Metrics IRC and IM robots Allspaw / Hammond 2009
- 14. June 2009 Velocity 2009 - “DevOps” – Patrick Dubois http://jedi.be October 2009 Devopsdays – Ghent, Belgium May 2010 DevOps Café Podcast – Episode 1 http://devopscafe.org/show/2010/5/9/episode-1.html Damon Edwards & John Willis November 2010 DevOps Weekly Email Newsletter – Issue 1 http://devopsweekly.com Gareth Rushgrove
- 15. The more formal someone’s definition of DevOps, the more likely they’d like to sell you something. (NTTAWWT)
- 16. John Allspaw SVP Technical Operations at Etsy http://www.kitchensoap.com @allspaw Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time, 2010 The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources, 2009
- 17. DevOps is an approach / philosophy DevOps ≈ Agile ≈ Zen
- 18. You probably wouldn’t hire… … a “Zen” … a “Zen Engineer” … a “Director of Zen”
- 19. You should hire… … Ops who think like Devs … Devs who think like Ops … People who have done both
- 20. “DevOps” job listings tend to be… 70% Web Operations 20% Web Operations + “DevOps” Tools 10% Tools + Process + Philosophy
- 21. An ideal candidate would be… Strong enough for either Dev or Ops (pick one) Not quite strong enough for the other + Smart Cultural Fit “Easy to work with”
- 22. Keywords DevOps github munin aws graphite nagios cacti greylog2 OpenStack capistrano jenkins puppet chef juju selenium collectd knife sensu ganglia logstash vagrant git mercurial mcollective
- 23. Nobody has… 3 years DevOps experience 5 years Chef 7 years Amazon EC2 9 year Ruby on Rails 10 years Web Operations 10 year Software Development
- 24. DevOps Training: Support Consulting Product Management IT Services Administration
- 25. Thank You Ken Sheppardson ken@crowdflower.com http://kshep.net @kshep