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Ten Years of DevOps, So What?
Thoughts from DevOps Days NYC 2020 and what we have learned
Three years ago, I went to my first DevOpsDays event, and it is fair to say that it radically changed my career path. I had been with Stack Overflow for a little over a year, had just launched this newsletter six months prior, and had little clue what DevOps was all about.
One of my colleagues, Tom Limoncelli, had mentioned the conference to me. I was also in discussions with one of the organizers, Ross Clanton, who said that we could meet up there. I did meet Ross as well as many other incredible folks, all part of a community that openly shares ideas, builds relationships, and learns together.
Three years later, I am a second time organizer for DevOpsDays NYC. I changed the name of this newsletter to DEVBIZOPS and launched a business. Key people in the DevOps world have been super supportive of my content and in participating in the Heretechs podcast. In three years, I went from a total noob to someone that knows a few things (but still always learning).
Some of the DevOpsDays groups try to organize content around a theme. In NYC we went for more diversity of ideas. That being said, if I could point to one key idea of the event, it was in the talk given by Kris Buytaert on what we have learned in the past decade…
