Owen Evans – DevOps is Dead, long live DevOps
Theory: Devops is role that never existed.
In the old days
– Shipping used to be hard and expensive, eg on physical media
– High cost of release
– but everybody else was the same.
– Lots of QA and red tape, no second chances
Then we got the Internet
– Speed became everything
– You just shipped enough
But Hardware still was a limiting factor
– Virtual machines
– IaaS
– Containers
This led to complacency
– Still had a physical server under it all
Birth of devops
– Software got faster but still had to have hardware under their somewhere
– Disparity between operations cadence and devs cadence
– things got better
– But we didn’t free ourselves from hardware
– Now everything is much more complex
Developers are now divorced from the platform
– Everything is abstracted
– It is leaky buckets all the way down
Solutions
– Education of developers as to what happens below the hood
– Stop reinventing the where
– Harmony is much more productive
– Lots of tools means that you don’t have enough expertise on each
– Reduce fiefdoms
– Push responsibility but not ownership (you own it but the devs makes some of the changes)
– Live with the code
– Pit of success, easy ways to fail that don’t break stuff (eg test environments, by default it will do the right thing)
– Be Happy. Everybody needs to be a bit devops and know a bit of everything.
