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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "DevOps and Baking"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["heather-thacker"]
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+
+Drawing a comparison between my past and current professions. Looking at stages of baking in preparing, mixing, baking, and selling while comparing to DevOps stages of planning, building, deploying, and feedback. An analogy between the process of production baking and the philosophy of collaboration for shipping software.
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+Title = "Heather Thacker"
+Twitter = "hhthacker"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hhthacker/"
+image = "heather-thacker.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "heather-thacker"
+
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+Developer advocate at Progress Chef with a background in software development and baking.
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@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ ignites:
   #   date: 2025-03-18
   - title: "henrietta-dombrovskaya"
     date: 2025-03-18
+  - title: "heather-thacker"
+    date: 2025-03-18
   - title: "ignite-karaoke"
     date: 2025-03-18