Handle Conflict, Like a Boss! – Deb Nicholson
- Conflict is natural
- “When they had no outfit for their conflict they turned into Reavers and ate people and stuff”
- People get caught up in their area not the overall goal for their organisation
- People associate with a role, don’t like when it gets changed or eliminated
- Need to go deep, people don’t actually tell you the problem straight away
- If things get too bad, then go to another project
- Identify the causes of conflict
- 3 Styles of handling conflict
- Avoidance
- Can let things fester
- They come across as unconnected
- Looks like support for the status quo
- Accommodation
- Compromise on everything
- Looks like not taking seriously
- Assertion
- Going to wear down everyone else
- People won’t tell you when things are wrong
- Avoidance
- Going a little deeper
- People don’t understand history (and why things are weird)
- go to historical motivations and get buy-in for the strategy that reflects the new reality
- People are acting to motivations you don’t see
- Ask about the other persons motivations
- Fear (often of change)
- “What is the worse that could happen?”
- Right Place, wrong time
- Stuff is going to the wrong person or group
- Help everyone get perspective
- Don’t do the same forum, method, people all the time if it always has conflict.
- People don’t understand history (and why things are weird)
- What do you do with the Info
- Put yourself in other persons shoes
- Find alignment
- A Word about who is doing this conflict resolution
- Shouldn’t be just a single person/role
- Or only women
- Should be everyone/anyone
- But if it is within a big or then maybe hire someone
- Planning for future conflicts
- Assuming the best
- No ad hominem (hard to go back)
- Conflict resolution between groups
- What could we accomplish if we worked together
- Doesn’t look good to outsiders
- More Face-to-Face between projects (towards a common goal)
Open Compute Project Down Under – Andrew Ruthven
- What is Open Compute
- Vanity free Computing ( remove pretty bits )
- Stripped Down – we don’t need, no video, minimum extra posts)
- Efficient and easy
- Maintenance, Air flow, Electricity
- Came out of Facebook, now a foundation
- 1/10th the number of techs/server
- Projects and Technologies
- 9 main areas, over 4000 people working on it.
- Design and Specs
- Recent Hardware
- Some comes in 19″ racks
- HPE, Microsoft Project Olympus
- In Aus / NZ
- Telstra – 2 rack of OCP Decathleon, Open Networking using Hyper Scalers
- Rackspace
- Large Gaming site
- Catalyst IT
- Why OCP for Catalyst
- Very Open source software orientated company
- Have a Cloud Operation
- Looking at for a while
- Finally ordered first unit in 2016 (Winterfell)
- Cumulus Linux switches from Penguin computing, works of 12volt in Open Rack
- Issues for Aus / Nz
- Very small scale, sometimes to small for vendors
- Supply chain hard, ended up using an existing integrator
- Hyper Scalers in Aus, will ship to NZ
- Number of comapnies seee to NZ
- Lessons
- Scale is an issue for failures aswell as supply
- Have >1 power shelf
- Have at least 2 racks with 4 power sheleves
- Too small for vendors to get certification
- Trust in new hardware
- Your Own deployment
- Green field DC
- Use DC Designs
- Allow for 48U racks (2.5 metres tall)
- 2x or 4x 3-phase circuits per rack
- Existing DCs
- Consider modifications
- 19″ servers options
- 48OU Open rack if you have enough height
- 22OU is you don’t have enough height
- Carefully check the specs
- Open Networking
- Run collectd etc directly on your switch
- Supply Chain
- Community Support
- OCP has a Aus/NZ Mailing list (ocp-anz)
- Discussion on what is a priority across Aus and NZ
- Green field DC
