Your Goat Antifragiled My Snowflake
summary
Definitions shift into actionable rules: treat servers as pets vs cattle—automate creation and destruction, don’t hand-tend hundreds; use Chat Ops (Slack integrations, command-triggered builds, graphs) to centralize actions and logs; avoid a snowflake by pushing manual fixes back into automation; the term antifragile names systems that improve under stress; beware yak shaving (e.g., installing nokogiri) and prefer bundling solutions like Omnibus; Coffee Ops is a meetup started by Jennifer Davis.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50Goat
- 1:20Cattle
- 1:50Canaries
- 2:20Coffee Ops
- 2:50Hug Ops
- 3:20Chat Ops
- 3:50Snowflake
- 4:20Antifragil
- 4:35Yak Shaving
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