[BBLISA] January BBLISA Mtg: Wed Jan 13 Thomas A. Limoncelli Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us ...

[Rob Taylor]

Hi Guys. I have a question. Is anyone recording this? Would anyone have an issue if I recorded it?

Thanks.

rgt

Whitehead Network/System Administrator

----- Original Message -----
> 
> Hi Everybody:
> 
> Our speaker for Wednesday January 13th (i.e. tomorrow) will be Thomas
> A. Limoncelli, SRE at StackOverflow.com.
> 
> The title of his talk is:
> 
> Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped
> 
> Transactional system administration puts sysadmins in a bad
> position. When organizations replace this model with a service-centric
> model the company receives better service and sysadmins gain positive
> visibility and increase their value.
> 
> The transactional model is where customers make requests and system
> administrators fulfill them. It is the model of servitude. This has
> been the power dynamic for decades. The service-centric model is where
> sysadmins maintain the automation that does work rather than doing the
> work themselves. Another way to look at it is that the best use of
> human labor in an auto factory is not to build cars, but to maintain
> the robots that build cars.
> 
> Stack Exchange's SRE Team is making strides at minimizing
> transactional system administration and, instead, adopting DevOps
> practices that create a cooperative relationship with our users. We've
> adopted this as our guiding management principle and it has greatly
> improved how we get things done.
> 
> Tom will discuss the successes and failures of these attempts and
> recommend how your organization can adopt this better structure.
> 
> Tom is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system
> administrator. His new book, The Practice of Cloud System
> Administration, launched last year. His past books include Time
> Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly) and The Practice of
> System and Network Administration (Pearson). In 2005, he received the
> USENIX LISA Outstanding Achievement Award. He works in New York City
> at Stack Exchange, home of Careers.Stackoverflow.com, and previously
> worked at Google and Bell Labs. His blog is
> http://EverythingSysadmin.com and he tweets @YesThatTom.
> 
> He will be speaking at MIT E-51, Room 145 on January 13 2016.
> 
> 7:00 - Announcements & Introductions
> 7:30 - Formal presentation
> 
> Hope to see you there.
> 
> See more about us at: http://bblisa.org
> 
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