Elevator Pitch
Black Mirror presents a haunting view of how technology places society a “minute away” from dystopia. DevOps & those that practice it find ourselves in the same boat - using technologies whose implications we don’t yet fully understand. How can we prevent season 5 from featuring DevOps characters?
Description
Black Mirror presents a haunting view of how modern technology places society a “minute away” from a dystopian future. DevOps and those of us that practice it find ourselves in a similar situation - partially mature technologies whose implications we don’t yet fully understand. Heartbleed, Equifax and now Meltdown & Spectre can make us feel like there is no escaping this dark future. But just as Black Mirror examines the extremes of these concepts as a canary in the mine shaft for society, we too can carefully employ practices that will prevent season 5 from featuring Site reliability engineer, DevOps engineer, or CISO characters.
In this talk, we’ll learn how to use the powerful concepts and tools behind DevOps for good…with great power comes great responsibility….but also great opportunity to do good for our businesses, each other and our world. By working together with product, business, and external teams; embedding security into how we operate; and measuring everything we do we can empower our teams to thrive.
Notes
The talk will cover 3-4 “episodes” of previous disasters: Meltdown and its impact on our reliance on cloud infrastructures, Knight Capital and their $440 million mistake, etc. Then the talk will cover 3-4 possible episodes of related concerns that exist that we either typically (a) ignore or (b) assume we’ve considered but may not have fully. Scaling, performance, cycle time, security, lead times, and other “one minute away” disasters.