DevOps at Etsy: Not a Unicorn, Just a Sparkly Horse
Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Show Notes
- Episode 11: Etsy Examined - How the Best Do Their Business by Food Fight
- BOFH (the Bastard Operator From Hell)
Check Outs
Jon Cowie
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Lloyd Taylor "Hacking Your Organization"Trevor
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Jon Cowie
Jon Cowie is a senior operations engineer at Etsy where he mixes his love of both coding and operations to try and solve interesting problems. He has created and open sourced a number of projects, including the Chef tools knife-spork and knife-preflight, and has spoken at several of O’Reilly’s Velocity conferences. He’s currently working on the upcoming O’Reilly book Customizing Chef.
John Allspaw
SVP Tech Operations, Etsy. Dad. Author. Guitarist. Systems Safety student. Terrible bio-writer.
David Yurkiewicz
David Yurkiewicz is a Web Operations Engineer at Etsy’s Infrastructure and Operations team. From IT Admin, sole systems administrator to WebOps engineer, David is a firm believer in automation and in working smarter and not harder. An advocate for open source software and web solutions. He enjoys graphs, metrics and anything that tells a story about the systems he is managing.
Pete Bellisano
Pete Bellisano is a Web Operations Engineer at Etsy and the newest member of the Operations team. He enjoys tackling the challenges of technology and is a student of all things Dev/Ops.
Hosts
Trevor Hess
Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.
Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.
Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
