We Are Always Learning With Patrick Debois
Posted on Monday, Feb 17, 2020
Show Notes
Referenced in the show
- Patrick discussed his love for continuous learning and referenced some of his favorite books.
- The Ironies of Automation is a paper discussing how automation can expand problems rather than eliminate them.
- Promise Theory is an approach to coordinating actors and agents in a system about their intentions to each other in the form of promises. The model was originally proposed by Mark Burgess
- NoEstimates: How to Measure Project Progress Without Estimating is a 2016 book that explains the “No Estimates” Agile concept.
- A trip down memory lane with the very first DevOps Days Ghent back in 2009.
Where you can find us
Patrick
- KubeCon in London
- DevOps Talks Melbourne
- DevSecCon Sydney
- O’Reilly Infrastructure Conference
Matt
- DevOpsDays NYC March 3rd - 4th
- SRECon Americas West March 24th - 26th
Jeff
- Panda Express usually on Thursdays
Open CFPs
- The CFP for devopsdays chicago will be open at the time of this publishing, so go to devopsdays.org/chicago to check it out!
Guests
Patrick Debois
In order to understand current IT organizations, Patrick has taken a habit of changing both his consultancy role and the domain which he works in: sometimes as a developer, manager, sysadmin, tester and even as the customer.
He first presented concepts on Agile Infrastructure at Agile 2008 in Toronto, and in 2009 he organized the first devopsdays . Since then he has been promoting the notion of ‘devops’ to exchange ideas between these groups and show how they can help each other to achieve better results in business.
He now works as Director of DevOps Relations and Advisor at @snyksec
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.
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith has been in the technology industry for over 20 years, oscillating between management and individual contributor. Jeff currently serves as the Director of Production Operations for Centro, an advertising software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Jeff is passionate about DevOps transformations in organizations large and small, with a particular interest in the psychological aspects of problems in companies. He lives in Chicago with his wife Stephanie and their two kids Ella and Xander.
Jeff is currently writing a book Operational Anti-Patterns with DevOps Solutions with Manning publishing due out in Spring of 2020, but available now via their early access program. He’s also the chapter president of Blacks in Technology where he strives to introduce the community to the different opportunities in the technology field.