The Database Calls Are Coming From Inside the DevOps
Posted on Tuesday, Jan 8, 2019
Show Notes
- Greg Burrell at QCon SF 2018: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
- Baron’s talk from QCon SF isn’t public yet, sorry. It will be. Meanwhile, here are the slides
- Bonus: Baron tweeted to ask ppl about their favorite on-call resources, and Mike Julian compiled all the answers into https://monitoring.love/articles/how-to-improve-on-call/
What is DevOps?
According to…
- Microsoft
- Amazon
- New Relic
- Atlassian “DevOps is the next most famous portmanteau next to Brangelina”
Check these out
- Jess: Quantum Mechanics Without the Observer
- Baron: Podcast rec: http://www.sceneonradio.org/
- Matty: John Allspaw on Incidents as We Imagine Them Versus How They Actually Are
Guests
Baron Schwartz
Baron is the CTO and founder of VividCortex, the best way to see what your production database servers are doing. Baron has written a lot of open source software, and several books including High Performance MySQL. He’s focused his career on learning and teaching about scalability, performance, and observability of systems generally (including the view that teams are systems and culture influences their performance), and databases specifically.
Hosts
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.
Jessica Kerr
Jessitron is a symmathecist in the medium of code. She works at Honeycomb in developer relations. She writes about software and system on her blog at Jessitron.com. She teaches workshops on Systems Thinking, and makes courses on Graceful.dev. She is into resilience engineering, domain-driven design, and of course DevOps – all the systems-thinky things. She lives in St. Louis, MO, where she raises two children and their cats. Find her also on >Code, and at conferences around the world.
