Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture

[Jerry Feldman]

When: December 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture
Moderator: Tom Limoncelli

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/1ixxKy4ES2o


Summary:

“Low-Context DevOps Culture”: a framework for improving team culture to 
optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability

Abstract:

“Low and high context cultures” is an anthropological concept, which Tom 
leverages to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture.

A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken, 
which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a 
“remote only”/COVID-19 team.

A low-context DevOps culture is one where the info you need to do your 
job is available, visible, and accessible. Creating a low-context 
culture improves remote teamwork, new-hire onboarding, enables project 
hopping, and helps you better handle a page you receive at 2am. 
Techniques include: smart defaults, “make the right way, the lazy way”, 
and documentation at the right time and place.


Bio:

Tom manages the SRE team at Stack Overflow in New York City. He is an 
internatio nally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and 
DevOps advocate. He has received the Usenix LISA Outstanding Achievement 
Award. Previously he's worked Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and others.

Attachments

https://everythingsysadmin.com/

https://www.whatexit.org/



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