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DevOps before there was DevOps, 20yr old style

Ignite talk

The year is 1996. A bright, resourceful 20 yr old Network Administrator at an ISP is tasked with a mundane, tedious project. Said 20 yr old feels he has a better way, and takes it upon himself to get creative. What follows is a quick journey down memory lane to a time before DevOps was DevOps, through the eyes of a 43yo looking back on his 20yo self.

Alternate abstract

The year is 1996. A bright, resourceful 20 yr old Network Administrator at an ISP is tasked with a mundane, tedious project. Said 20 yr old feels he has a better way, and takes it upon himself to get creative. What follows is a quick journey down memory lane to a time before DevOps was DevOps.

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This is an ignite about when I was a 20yo SysAdmin/NetAdmin and took some shortcuts, and a hilarious take on DevOps principles - kind of a tongue-in-cheek "don't do what I did". It loosely follows this blog post.

Some of the takeaways here would be that:

1- DevOps principles should be used for good 2- Jeremy should not be asked to build a deck 3- We’ve learned a lot since 1996, and yet we’ve forgotten a lot. Let’s get nostalgic.