Make It Stick: DevOps culture and systems science

A presentation at DevOpsDays Dallas 2023 in August 2023 in Plano, TX, USA by Laura Santamaria

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays DevOps culture and systems science Laura Santamaria Lead Developer Advocate Dell Technologies

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays How do you make this transformation stick ???

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Physics Example

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Unstable

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Stable

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays People, Infrastructure, Software People, Infrastructure, Software People, Infrastructure, Software

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Two Cases

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays A stable people system

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays An unstable people system

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays One person doing the glue work

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays A stable infrastructure system

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays An unstable infrastructure system

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays No one knows how the general concepts of infrastructure work.

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays A stable software system

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays An unstable software system

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Too many shiny new software tools to choose from

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays How do I identify stable equilibrium?

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays How do I minimize perturbations?

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays What about SRE ? What about Platform Engineering ?

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdays Find Your Equilibrium