DevOps Coping Strategy #1

Corey Quinn, FutureAdvisor @Quinnypig

“Pets vs Cattle”

–Joshua McKenty, Piston Cloud

“It takes a family of three to care for a single puppy, but a few cowboys can drive tens of thousands of cows over

great distances, all while drinking whiskey.”

Drinking Whiskey for Systems Administrators

or “They’ll let me talk about just about anything, won’t they.”

Deployments

Eagle Rare 10 year, Single Barrel

Monitoring

Johnnie Walker Black Label

“I have just created a lot of work for the rest of the

team.”

Evan Williams Honey Reserve

I’m writing Ruby!

Moonshine

“We don’t believe in configuration

management here.”

Everything in the Bar

“I have to write custom code for the company’s

core application.”

Wine Coolers

“I’ve just git-rebased the master branch and

pushed.”

Sterno (Please do not actually drink this.)

“I committed something ill advised— and my

automated tests caught it.”

Lagavulin 16 year

“I have to explain to my boss what I flew halfway around

the world to talk about.”