Useful flakes - The Value of Common Tools
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Flint knapping enabled our species to thrive during the ice age, and the values of stone tools are values that modern DevOps teams can benefit from.
Useful flakes - The Value of Common Tools
- 1. The Value of Common Tools Useful Flakes
- 2. Matthew Boeckman VP - Engineering Bluprint 19 years (dev)Ops leader Startup Advisor @matthewboeckman . And amateur Flint Knapper
- 3. I like to bang rocks together
- 6. Knives
- 7. Axe
- 8. Burin
- 9. Spear Point
- 10. Gosh, these are crappy tools.
- 13. Accessible All members of a tribe were tool makers Raw materials can be transformed in short order Easily taught without verbal or written instruction
- 14. Ubiquitous Rocks are like, everywhere Empowered exploration Enabled far-ranging hunting activity
- 15. Flexible These tools are reusable and extensible
- 16. Empower Innovation Failed strikes can create unexpected shapes, or open new approaches in the knappers minds. Those failures become feedback for the next iteration. We call those failures Useful flakes
- 17. Empower Innovation Familiarity with this technology complex enabled early peoples to experiment with raw materials, techniques, and methods. This is the foundation of our cognitive learning process.
- 20. Specialization 40 engineers 5 teams 5 workflow systems Jira Trello Basecamp osTicket Asana
- 21. 75 engineers 60 Microservices 12 different datastores No DBAs Specialization
- 23. Tools should Free us From toil
- 24. Empower the right kind of Innovation Common tools Teams focus on product and feature innovation Teams do not focus on disparate tool implementation and maintenance
- 25. Empower the right kind of Innovation Specialized tools Product innovation suffers as attention is paid to maintaining different tooling High ops touch, heavy customization and integration Specialized tools require Toil to maintain
- 26. Tools must enable a Flow State
- 27. Flexible Multitasking is a Lie Specialization requires context switching Context switching ends your flow state
- 28. Flexible Flexible tools may be sub-optimal for specific tasks, but pay off in reduced cognitive load and an increased flow state
- 30. We are unlikely to colonize a planet made of effective CI/CD pipelines, resilient microservices, or scalable cloud computing. Ubiquitous
- 31. Ubiquitous Broad adoption of a technology complex creates a community Of Novices, Journeymen, Masters, across functional silos, workflows, environments and departments Only this rich community can enable the most productivity from a given platform
- 34. Accessible All members of a DevOps tribe should use a common toolset.
- 35. Accessible New practitioners Of a toolset Should be welcomed, Not stigmatized
- 38. Failure
Editor's Notes
- Billet, flaker, abrador
- 31k-16k BP - It was cold AVG temp 12 DEG CEL LOWER Massive Glaciation Desertification, deforestation, drought Megafauna (Cave Lions, Sabre Tooth Tigers, and Cave Bears, oh my!)