I was invited to London QCon this year to give a talk, I chose to talk about how I’ve helped to build a startup heavily favoring the scenario where developers do support, rollouts and maintenance of their code directly in production.
My talk go into the approaches I took while thinking about networks, boxes, operating systems, team structure, monitoring and so forth to attain these goals in a way that does not compromise the traditional goals that sysadmins have as a team and profession.
You can watch the talk – 50 minutes roughly – at the InfoQ site.
I should add I was feeling a bit rough on the day and coming down with a cold, but mostly I think I remained more or less conscious during the talk ๐
