DevOps Army of One - DevOps Days Silicon Valley 2015funjon
Despite the best of intentions, we sometimes find ourselves working on a team of size one. Groups shrink for many reasons: attrition, mergers and acquisitions, transfers, and financial distress. It's never comfortable being a Single Point of Failure, but how can you survive this state of non-redundancy? Are there any benefits to being a team of "me, myself, and I", or is it all a pit of despair? What kind of red flags should you be on the lookout for? And, most importantly, what compelling leverage can you try to use to encourage team growth back to a reasonable size?
At DevOps Days Silicon Valley 2015, I shared a series of unfortunate events that led to my current status: the Human SPoF; I also discussed some of the tactics I've used to survive. Automation, tools, and code-as-infrastructure are a force multiplier applied correctly, allowing one engineer to do the work of many. However, these wonders come with a price tag. I also covered some strategies to grow a team, and ways to maintain sanity while keeping the lights blinking and the disks spinning in a 24x7 real-time environment with over 2000 servers.
DevOps Army of One - DevOps Days Silicon Valley 2015funjon
Despite the best of intentions, we sometimes find ourselves working on a team of size one. Groups shrink for many reasons: attrition, mergers and acquisitions, transfers, and financial distress. It's never comfortable being a Single Point of Failure, but how can you survive this state of non-redundancy? Are there any benefits to being a team of "me, myself, and I", or is it all a pit of despair? What kind of red flags should you be on the lookout for? And, most importantly, what compelling leverage can you try to use to encourage team growth back to a reasonable size?
At DevOps Days Silicon Valley 2015, I shared a series of unfortunate events that led to my current status: the Human SPoF; I also discussed some of the tactics I've used to survive. Automation, tools, and code-as-infrastructure are a force multiplier applied correctly, allowing one engineer to do the work of many. However, these wonders come with a price tag. I also covered some strategies to grow a team, and ways to maintain sanity while keeping the lights blinking and the disks spinning in a 24x7 real-time environment with over 2000 servers.
The project’s aim is to promote the ecological education among school students and local people of Slatsy settlement by attracting them to the territory of the quarry. To make the process both interesting and useful they will be involved into a quest around the territory of the quarry. The main idea is to get people to learn more on biodiversity by playing and by arranging social activity like a photo exhibition, picture contest, designing of the ecology board game. The “Pechurki” quarry is going to be flooded as a part of the recultivation process; we propose to divide the area into two zones, one of which will be unavailable for humans to provide the place for mammals, birds, fish and other species common for the region. The other zone will be a good place to watch the animals from arranged watching stations.
The project won the International contest of the Quarry Life Award 2014 in the category “Biodiversity and Education”
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/youth-view-quarry-nature
A group of pupils from Jessen Grammar School investigates the potential spawning grounds of the native amphibians moor frog (Rana arvalis), natterjack toad (Bufo calamita), European green toad (Bufo viridis) and European tree frog (Hyla arborea) at the Steinsdorf gravel pit. The objective of the project is to record the preferences of the aforementioned species with regard to shore characteristics, depth of water, water temperature and pH value in order to achieve optimal conditions for the protection of the endangered amphibians during renaturalization. The investigation is complemented by the consideration of biotic factors such as availability of food and potential predators.
The project won the International contest of the Quarry Life Award 2014 in the category “Student Project”
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/design-and-development-suitable-spawining-grounds-protection-native-amphibians
This thesis presents a design proposal for a recreational landscape by the Western quarry in Slite, an 89 hectare wide and 45 meters deep quarry on the northern part of Gotland where limestone is being extracted for the production of cement.
By participating in the Quarry Life Award 2014, a competition to raise the knowledge about biodiversity in quarries, the project was given a thematic focus on biodiversity and how knowledge about it can be spread.
In this thesis handling a quarry and how it can be restored is breaking new ground. The new knowledge has being weaved together with a natural environment just as complex and through the design the public gets access to this new natural and cultural landscape with new aesthetic values and experiences.
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/concrete-biodiversity
The project’s aim is to promote the ecological education among school students and local people of Slatsy settlement by attracting them to the territory of the quarry. To make the process both interesting and useful they will be involved into a quest around the territory of the quarry. The main idea is to get people to learn more on biodiversity by playing and by arranging social activity like a photo exhibition, picture contest, designing of the ecology board game. The “Pechurki” quarry is going to be flooded as a part of the recultivation process; we propose to divide the area into two zones, one of which will be unavailable for humans to provide the place for mammals, birds, fish and other species common for the region. The other zone will be a good place to watch the animals from arranged watching stations.
The project won the International contest of the Quarry Life Award 2014 in the category “Biodiversity and Education”
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/youth-view-quarry-nature
A group of pupils from Jessen Grammar School investigates the potential spawning grounds of the native amphibians moor frog (Rana arvalis), natterjack toad (Bufo calamita), European green toad (Bufo viridis) and European tree frog (Hyla arborea) at the Steinsdorf gravel pit. The objective of the project is to record the preferences of the aforementioned species with regard to shore characteristics, depth of water, water temperature and pH value in order to achieve optimal conditions for the protection of the endangered amphibians during renaturalization. The investigation is complemented by the consideration of biotic factors such as availability of food and potential predators.
The project won the International contest of the Quarry Life Award 2014 in the category “Student Project”
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/design-and-development-suitable-spawining-grounds-protection-native-amphibians
This thesis presents a design proposal for a recreational landscape by the Western quarry in Slite, an 89 hectare wide and 45 meters deep quarry on the northern part of Gotland where limestone is being extracted for the production of cement.
By participating in the Quarry Life Award 2014, a competition to raise the knowledge about biodiversity in quarries, the project was given a thematic focus on biodiversity and how knowledge about it can be spread.
In this thesis handling a quarry and how it can be restored is breaking new ground. The new knowledge has being weaved together with a natural environment just as complex and through the design the public gets access to this new natural and cultural landscape with new aesthetic values and experiences.
Read more: http://www.quarrylifeaward.com/project/concrete-biodiversity
