
Jeremy Douglas98





















What advice would you give to ops practitioners who are afraid of DevOps automating away all their jobs?

John Davis
your experience is amazing, we look forward to leveraging it in a more efficient manner that will benefit both you and the company.

John Furrier
I think ops guys/gals have great oppty bc ops will evolve to multicloud which is just another datacenter like thing

Josh Atwell - 60% Productivity
. @JerDoug i don't have enough space. I'll say that your investment in your discipline is more than performing tasks. You provide invaluable operational guidance.

Kris Saxton
All automation will destroy some jobs, create and change others. The best place to be is on the crest of that wave (not underneath it).

Damon Edwards
I'd say it's 2017... are people still afraid of automation or is this just a strawman thrown out to cover for some other fear?

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Embrace change and the opportunity to learn new things. If it can be automated, it should be.

Thomas A. McGonagle
This is a huge issue in the netops world. I try to gently say that automation is the new normal and not automating is an avenue to unemployment...

John Furrier
btw: gr8 question. To me it's like the mainframe guys. Some hung around til the end many figured out the new way and jumped over to the new wave called Mini's and LANs and PCs

Gene Kim
OH: "70% of ops engrs didn't join our effort & team suffered b/c of it. We really needed their expertise."
Chris Phillips
embrace the change lest it leave you behind. DevOps is not the opposite of ITIL, they are closely intertwined

Josh Atwell - 60% Productivity
@furrier correct. just as server administrators became virtualization administrators. Many are transitioning again. evolution doesn't stop.

Kaimar Karu
Most people I've talked to have been super excited about automating away the boring stuff and being able to leverage their with for cool (and useful!) stuff

John Furrier
to me devs will always be devs but ops guys will still be in charge

Ben Grinnell
Move up the value stream. If you are firefighting start working proactively on how to make your job redundant before release - that's your new job

Peter Eeles
Every role has elements that will become mainstream, mundane, repeatable and automatable. Identifying new areas that do not have these characteristics where to head. E.g. moving to cloud still needs people :)

nicole forsgren
Technology is for automation. People are for solving problems. Let tech do the boring, repetitive stuff. Embrace the exciting, challenging work. Let yourself be promoted.

Peter Eeles
@kaimarkaru I like the positive tone ... will be using this ... thx! :)

Gene Kim
OH last week: "many MS automation holdouts were the old Microsoft Small Business Service admins"

Carmen DeArdo
@nicolefv Nicole you got this :-)

Gene Kim
.@RealGeneKim Did I get that right? We had it at Tripwire: Exchange, IIS/ASP, what else was in there?

Kaimar Karu
@petereeles and instead of "with" there should be "wit" (I have a built-in auto-correct in my brain)

Gene Kim
.@RealGeneKim @jsnover Your characterization of this archetype was a huge aha moment for me. @yesthattom