Full talk from ops to dev and back again
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- Bilbo Baggins lives a comfortable life in the Shire until he goes on an unexpected adventure, where he faces new dangers and learns new skills - During his adventure, he encounters challenges outside his training but gains valuable experience, which he later shares in his book "There and Back Again" - The document discusses the benefits and drawbacks of working in different roles, such as gaining new skills but losing progress in one's current path, and how this approach can build better tools and experience different ways of working
Full talk from ops to dev and back again
- 1. Bilbo baggins, Lives in the shire, Nice house, comfortable life
- 3. One day, he goes off on an adventure and does a lot of things he isn’t trained for.
- 4. He encounters new dangers and challenges
- 6. Writes a book: There and back again
- 7. “There and back again” one who went on an adventure from home only to return home to speak and share their learned wisdom and give birth to knowledge. J.R.R Tolkien
- 8. From Ops to Dev, and Back Again Gil Zellner @Heathenaspargus
- 10. This was on hacker news a while back I did both, let’s read what others think
- 14. What I did at Automatic Blue Green Deployment system, zero downtime, high biz value
- 15. What I did at Main Achievement (What I Built): Automatic Deployment system - Application lifecycle management
- 16. What I did at AMI Bakery (immutable Infra before docker)
- 17. What I did at Monitoring
- 18. What I did at AWS ruby SDK
- 19. What I did at Orchestration
- 22. What did I bring with me
- 35. What I was lacking You don’t get good at this without being a full time dev
- 36. I had great mentors
- 49. The Pros You gain more skills
- 50. The Pros You learn how others work
- 51. The Pros You can now build better tools
- 52. The Cons This is hard
- 53. The Cons Paycut
- 54. The Cons Lose progress in current path
- 55. Commons misconceptions You will (most likely) not become a senior developer
- 59. People are moving jobs To get full stack experience
- 60. cost of hiring new employee is 1.5-3x their monthly salary (gartner) @Heathenaspargus
- 61. Jack of all trades
- 65. What Will the Retirement Age Be In 2050? 78
- 66. Summary - Working in different roles improves different skills -
- 67. Summary - Working in different roles improves different skills - This has a price, but many people think it is worth it, and this backed by current trends in HR -
- 68. Summary - Working in different roles improves different skills - This has a price, but many people think it is worth it, and this backed by current trends in HR - Trying on different roles does not change who you are -
- 69. Summary - Working in different roles improves different skills - This has a price, but many people think it is worth it, and this backed by current trends in HR - Trying on different roles does not change who you are - Our generation will work into our 70s, which means that we have a lot of time to experiment.
- 70. Summary - Working in different roles improves different skills - This has a price, but many people think it is worth it, and this backed by current trends in HR - Trying on different roles does not change who you are - Our generation will work into our 70s, which means that we have a lot of time to experiment. - Being multidisciplinary is a bonus now, but will become mandatory in the future