The DevOps Pay Raise: Quantifying Your Value to Move Up the Ladder

Abstract:

DevOps, when done right, usually goes unnoticed. It’s only when something breaks that all eyes turn to IT. If your boss only sees you when the app is down, however, that’s not really doing your career any favors. In this session we’ll talk about how to prove your value to the organization by looking at the positive side – that is, how much money you’ve saved your company. We’ll take a look at how you can use tools like Chef, Puppet, Sensu and Logstash to quantify your value to your company. After this session, you’ll be able to walk into a meeting with your boss ready to talk about your value to the company (and to ask for a raise).

• Why devops matters?
• Tools of the trade
  • Chef + Puppet
  • Logstash + Loggly + SumoLogic + Splunk
  • Fabric + Capistrano + Jenkins
  • Sensu + Graphite
  • AppDynamics
• Your real value
  • A case study in the cost of failure
  • Reactive to production failures
• How to win
• Automate everything
• Maximum Visibility with Minimum Effort

Speaker:

Dustin Whittle