Make yourself replaceable at DevOpsCon 2016 Berlin

Erno Aapa

Make yourself replaceable

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Erno Aapa ! ernoaapa

Engineer @ Sharper Shape Founder of DevOpsFinland

"I am replaceable! ...or at least try to!"

I'm Replaceable like.... battery?

WHAT!?

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Refer to putting one person or thing in place of another

replaceable /rɪˈpleɪs/

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Means that any time you can be kicked out easily!

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"NO!... I'll rather make my self priceless and raise my salary up to the sky!

Buhahahah!

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Cross working, more agile, big impact

Specialists, processes,

less impact

Startups

Enterprise

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"It takes one week tomake yourself priceless

butmonths or years to

make yourself replaceable"

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Steve Jobs was here!

Google Trends: Adobe Flash Player

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Don't bet your whole career on top

of one technology

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Replaceable

Time for new

Changing work

Prepared for new

Priceless

Lock down

Repeating work

Same forever

Become more agile and productive

Missing one person don't affect to performance

More united, collaborative team

Team

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Customer don't lock down to one provider

You don't lock down to one customer

That's what both parties actually wants!

Consulting / freelancer

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• I'm not the only one who know or do my tasks

• I teach what I know to my colleagues

• I try to make it as easy as possible to anyone take my job

• I help company to find a way to get rid of my work

• I'm always prepared to move forward

Replaceable

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But don't push your work to others, that's laziness!

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Photo by Ronda Darby @ Unsplash

Even presidents are replaceable, why wouldn't you?

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Buy as-a-Service all you can!

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"GitHub QuayWercker Kubernetes

Service

Service

Service

Service provided by

Operations

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Force team to not depend on anyone!

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#Developer Auto

mation!

"GitHub

#Other

Developers

Review code changes and give feedback ##

Testi

ng!

Production

#Other

Admins

Maintain the automation and

environment ##

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Push team to be cross functioning

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Story of two companiesIn

trepid

Tit

anic

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$60.000/Month

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 20 servers

Revenue

Sysadmins

Servers

Operation costs

% $5M/Year

### 3 Administrators

Titanic

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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% $115M/YearRevenue

Sysadmins

Servers

Operation costs

# ¼ Developer

$$$$ 4 Servers

$2.500/Month

From Ansible newsletter 9/15 / Matt Jaynes

INtrepid

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Intrepid

Titanic

Operation costs per $1M revenue

$144 000$260

That's over 500 times more!

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Photo by Greg Rakozy @ Unsplash

At the end...

it's just bits of information

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200.000 years ago

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Small piece of information

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Matt

Cindy

Craig

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Matt

Cindy

Craig

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Sick!

Shit!

Shit!

Matt

Cindy

Craig

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Distribute basic information

Matt

Cindy

Craig

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No single point of failure

Who is priceless?Write down the

core knowledge what the people have

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Image processingHenry

Matt

Cindy

Craig

Shelia

Who is priceless?Write down who other have knowledge about

same area

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Image processingHenry

Matt

Cindy

Craig

Shelia

Software development

Coordinate systems

Signal processing

Cloud and automation

Image processing

Who is priceless?

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Image processingHenry

Matt

Cindy

Craig

Shelia

Software development

Coordinate systems

Signal processing

Cloud and automation

Image & signal processing

Software development

Coordinate systems

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Developer

Operations

Manager

"Can you leave the project NOW?"

"Does production run if you leave?"

"Does the team work, even you're away?"

Frontend

Securit

y Backend

Building

Mon

itor

ing

Testi

ng

Infrastructure

Deployment

Sensors

Automatio

nCoordinates

Image/V

ideo

Dat

a m

anag

emen

t

Software

Analysis

3D modeling

Try different ways

Team missing information Knowledge not distributed

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Sharing the information is not easy

you cannot force other to learn

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1 Minimize amount of information

2 Remove unnecessary, automate rest

3 Rotate roles and tasks

4 Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!

5 "Can you do this...?" - "NO! But I'll teach"

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Changing culture is not easy

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"If company can run without me, then I have done my work properly!

Please give feedbackThank you!

Backgrounds: Mehmet Demiray, Turkey

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