Watch out for that tree!
What mountain biking has taught me about proactive systems engineering.
Schedule

Presented by:

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jlk

from GitHub

Jesse Keating is an OpenSource enthusiast with a passion for systems engineering and large scale automation projects.

Currently he is a Site Reliability Engineer for GitHub.

He has written books on Ansible

He has authored and performed video training for Ansible

Outside of his day job, Jesse spends his time exploring the beautiful spaces of the Pacific Northwest. He is an avid cyclist and outdoorsman, frequently embarking on camping, multi-day biking trips, or bike races with his family and friends.

Mountain biking is a lot like software engineering. No, really! There are skills to be learned, obstacles to overcome, patterns to recognize, leaders to follow, and new trails to explore!

In this talk I'll discuss a revelation I had one day as I was riding down the trail, about how I could apply that which I've learned over the years of trail riding to software and systems engineering. This will not be a talk about specific technologies or tools, but instead a reflection upon methodologies, monitoring/observeability, pitfall avoidance, and other engineering practices. Come have a laugh at the funny pictures, but also take with you perhaps some new insights or at least some new perspectives on healthy software and systems engineering, about how to be PROactive instead of REactive.

Date:
2018 April 28 - 02:30
Duration:
45 min
Room:
CC-208
Conference:
LinuxFest Northwest 2018
Language:
Track:
Humans
Difficulty:
Easy

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