KEYNOTE: How to be happy being average
summary
Argues that big-company DevOps practices must be pared down to concrete steps for mid-size apps: instrumented a Rails app with in flux to get DB metrics and reliably improved response times in hours, so start with insight not idealized platforms. Recommends choosing the tool with the lowest barrier to entry, prioritize communication and expectations across teams, use empathy to troubleshoot config drift, and defer optimizations until monitoring and incident triage actually work.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:46Katy Farmer
- 2:32My sister
- 3:13My brother
- 4:05Jared
- 5:31Katie
- 9:18Katys sports background
- 10:19How to be passionate
- 11:18Average does not mean small
- 12:14We are not the anomaly
- 13:19Obstacles
- 14:13Insight
- 15:49Tools
- 18:09Communication
- 18:38Prioritize Empathy
- 21:39Optimization
- 22:20Average is typical
- 23:03Developer advocate
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