Taking Back IT – DevOps | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #APM #Microservices

I am an ops guy. I have been in Ops since I started my career a long time ago. I still remember the glorious days of being the new guy on the Ops team and getting stuck with changing backup tapes. I remember moving servers in the wee small hours of the morning, upgrades that went horribly wrong with no prayer of reverting, and the joys and pains that went with being in operations, and really what we would call “Legacy IT” in general. It’s like the opposite of “Cheers”, because you want to be where NO ONE knows your name; if people know who you were in those days of IT, you were having a bad day.

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