Failure Is Always An Option - A talk by Mathias Meyer

27 Jan 2013 by Roman Heinrich

Quite an interesting talk by Mathias Meyer about cultural challenges, while operating big backend infrastructures.

Failure is always an option - Matthias Meyer aka @roidrage from devopsdays on Vimeo.

A couple of notes, I found worth remembering (those are not quotations...):

• #Hangops or @hangops -
  a Google Hangout group for DevOps peeps, great!

• Ops-School source - a growing list of things, an operations engineer is
  expected to know

• Tackling the problem of failure - see it as opportunity.

• Hindsight-bios dude - yeah, some failures are rationalized after they occurred...

• If something happens, take charge of it and move on.

• Tooling is still important part of if, enable things to be done easily

• Tooling is just an enabler for the cultural shift in the group

• #shareops - share your experience

• Blog about your operations + do public postmortems

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