Description

So you’re a webdev, and you’ve been reading up on devops. Most of what you read is aimed at ops people: configuration as code, measuring and monitoring all the things, tearing down silos. As a developer, what’s your role here? In this talk, I’ll show you how to be a good developer for your ops team. The developer who is trusted. The developer who isn’t an ops person, necessarily, but understands enough. Not the developer who is cursed at 3 AM when their code breaks production—again. Not the developer who chooses new technologies on the basis of shininess. I’ll cover:

• Development environments (“It worked on my laptop!”)
• Technology choices (“All the cool kids are using FlakyDB.”)
• Building instrumentation points into code (“What makes you think it’s not working?”)
• Deployment planning (“Can we push at 5pm Friday?”)
• Personal responsibility (“Sorry I didn’t answer my phone”)