Karthik Gaekwad gave a talk about his experience transitioning from devops to "dadops" as he prepares for the birth of his first child. He discussed how many aspects of parenting, such as learning on the job, sharing resources with other parents, automating tasks, and monitoring metrics are similar to the devops mindset of continuous learning, collaboration, automation, and measurement. He also humorously compared the challenges of on-call support for devops to being on-call as a parent.

1. Devops and Dadops
Karthik Gaekwad
@iteration1
Devopsdays Austin 2018

2. Hi!
• I’m Karthik Gaekwad
• @iteration1 on twitter
• Managed Kubernetes service at
Oracle: Austin, hiring developers!

3. Life Changes
Going to be a new dad soon…

4. https://twitter.com/sivarajTweets/status/987139459614461952

5. https://twitter.com/jjasghar/status/986793089145679873
https://twitter.com/jjasghar/status/986786444390948864

6. Devops is…
https://www.slideshare.net/botchagalupe/devops-days-austin-2012-sotu
John Willis - @botchagalupe

7. Culture
Me: “We’re expecting our first in
May”…..
“It’s an amazing experience…”
“I have 2 kids, and the first year is a
week by week thing..”
“I wasn’t sure what to do at first, but I
figured it out along the way”

8. Culture
• Similar to what we do in devops…
• “Kubernetes solved a lot of our
problems”
• “I had no idea what to do when I
was on call to support the
Kubernetes cluster, but I learned
along the way”
Similarity: Real talk, pros and cons

9. Sharing
• Clothing, toys, tools: shared with
people/handmedowns
• Lots of tools- lots of vendors!!
• babygearlab.com
• People tell you what works, and
what doesn’t
• “Sometimes you test in production”

10. Automation
We already do this in real life…

11. @scottsbaldwin:
“My kids are notorious for not
turning off lights.”
“…and I have 4 kids, so
everything is on all the time”
https://twitter.com/scottsbaldwin
Automation

12. Automation
But things can go horribly
wrong.
Kid: “Alexa turn on lights”
Parent: “Alexa turn off lights”
Kid: “Alexa turn on lights”…
RBAC for Alexa?

13. Measurement…Measurement
• % of baby weight lost in 1st
week…
• Baby percentiles during
pregnancy….
• Number of diapers used in a
day
• Baby monitoring

14. Measurement…Measurement
Months into pregnancy…
Growthpercentile..
84
55
48
35
DANGER!

15. Measurement
Months into pregnancy…
Weightpercentile..
Doctor = Devops engineer
“Downward trends okay,
as long as it’s above a
certain threshold”

16. Audience
Question…
Is poop a
severity 1
issue?
seriously, i wanna know…

17. Is poop a severity 1
issue?
comme ci, comme
ça
“It depends”
“Is it a blowout, or
routine
maintenance”

18. Devops is in demand…

19. On callOn-call prepares you…
Only difference:
“You’re always on call
during dadops.”
“For about 950 weeks”
—@jeffuberman

20. Fin
“devops is a mindset!”
“So is dadops”