A presentation at DevOpsDays Baltimore 2019 in in Baltimore, MD, USA by Leon Fayer
How Devops Anti-Patterns RUINED HOLIDAYS @papa_fire
this is a REAL story (unfortunately)
setting a scene Black Friday e-commerce site $5mm/month 2 teams
DEV OPS
10:15am
Image of you here lack of domain knowledge
lack in communication 10:30am
lack of shared accountability
12:00pm
lack of instrumentation 1:10pm
lack of version control 1:40pm
lack of rollback plan 2:30pm
4hours! $30,000/hr+! stillbroken
4:00pm
lack of agility 5:15pm
lack of automation 5:40pm
8 hours! $150,000 lost! … more?! who is to blame?!
business-first DevOps
DEV OPS
THANK YOU! Credits: @papa_fire https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelmgf/8687689918/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/carrotmadman6/7302641488 https://www.flickr.com/photos/55084317@N08/7888085460/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/dbrauer43/14869114061/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/karl_is/13283739843/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/127418372@N06/21263125818/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjackowski/12793870695/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/68794378@N07/8691704516/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/kipper75/17214072783/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/129136500@N08/15767911667/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/verybadfigs/16307619923/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/fbiluthien/16268250665/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/pdamsten/5597886912 https://www.flickr.com/photos/dieselini/15427631969/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/79585056@N07/7299411698
Behind the extensive downtimes I witness every holiday, I see a corporate failure to change the archaic processes to match the change in business models. Technology space has evolved. Businesses, however, especially larger ones, have a natural aversion to change, that is often justified by risk and cost factors. However, processes are put in place for exactly that reason — to save time and money. If they don’t accomplish those two goals or worse, contributing to the opposite – they need to be changed. It this talk I discuss a real world example of Black Friday 8 hour downtime of a large e-commerce website and discuss key anti-DevOps patterns contributing to the failure.
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