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15 Years of DevOps
Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group
There has been a lot of hullabaloo over the past few years around a concept called “DevOps.” The idea is that we need to break down the barriers between development and operations teams, and treat infrastructure as code, in order to move towards better software, more reliable and scalable systems, and continuous deployment.
For some of us who have been around a while, this is just a new label for something we’ve always done.
They say those that don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it. In this talk, we will look back at how the DevOps movement evolved, what it advocates, what it doesn’t address, and what you should take away from the movement that will help you in your professional life. We will also use this opportunity to look back over the past decade or two of system administration, and see how our challenges have changed, and how they have remained the same.
Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group
Geoff Halprin (S6, S9, M12) has spent over 30 years as a software developer, system administrator, consultant, and troubleshooter. He has written software from system management tools to mission-critical billing systems, has built and run networks for enterprises of all sizes, and has been called upon to diagnose problems in every aspect of computing infrastructure and software.
He is the author of the System Administration Body of Knowledge (SA-BOK) and the SAGE Short Topics book A System Administrator's Guide to Auditing and was the recipient of the 2002 SAGE-AU award for outstanding contribution to the system administration profession.
Geoff has served on the boards of SAGE, SAGE-AU, USENIX, and LOPSA. He has spoken at over 20 conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, and the US.
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author = {Geoff Halprin},
title = {15 Years of {DevOps}},
year = {2012},
address = {San Diego, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
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