We have our 24 hour hamster wheel of work. Homo econonomicus. Getting things done.
There’s a cloud gazers society: they just look at clouds. No, not the IT clouds, but the real clouds outside in the sky :-)
Look at clouds. Be lazy. Lazy time is time saved up for later :-)
A fast and successful workflow with failures and nothing to be ashamed of.
We start with accountability. Often humans get the blame, for instance in accidents with ships or planes. But why are machines so perfect even though they’re build by humans?!?
Perfection is the killer of any good.
If you design a system: design it so that it tolerates failures. Then it will be robust.
Allow yourself and others to fail. Be humble.
If you’re working in a toxic environment, you’ll have to narrow your objectives.
You will get tips like “just do what you have to do”. Don’t do anything extra. And don’t get creative.
Get a mentor, but what you really need is a champion.
Relax: just work as little as possible. That is part of your compensation.
Also grab all the extra’s (like gym memberships).
Powerpoint: a corporate presentation is a regular document that is accidentally printed in landscape.
He has some more here: https://cote.io/books (free in the week of the conference)
Kubernetes have “pre-stop hooks”.
He wrote https://github.com/noamt/stop to make it easy to work with the hook: it can send a signal to any go application.
You cannot lean, agile of devops your way around a bad organisation culture.
Measuring and monitoring everything. Most don’t know what they really want or need to measure.
Multiple work managent tools (email + all the others)
Misalignment of incentives.
Institutional versus tribal knowledge. Knowledge you need, but don’t really have.
Incongruent organisational design. The company isn’t structured in the best way possible.
Managing complexity. Complex systems are often not understood.
Security and compliance, devsecops. Security theater.
My name is Reinout van Rees and I work a lot with Python (programming language) and Django (website framework). I live in The Netherlands and I'm happily married to Annie van Rees-Kooiman.
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