Ops to DevOps to NoOps: The changing face of IT Operations
About the Speaker
Manager, Application Engineering and Automation at Discovery, Inc.
Andy Cowell has over twenty years of system administration experience in a variety of environments. Currently, he works for Discovery, Inc., as the manager of the Application Engineering and Automation group in Cloud Infrastructure. He has been responsible for some of the top destinations on the Internet, such as HGTV.com, Dilbert.com, and Metallica.com. In the past, he has worn many hats, from networking admin to full-time developer, and cut his teeth as a "Wizard" with the UTK Computer Science department. When not wrangling systems, he solders microcontrollers, plucks strings, paints toy soldiers, drinks bourbon, smokes pipes, watches hockey, grows algae, and rolls 20s.
Presentation Resources
Modern IT operations has had dramatic changes over the last several years, thanks to the cloud and API access to traditional infrastructure. What does "operations" look like in an age when anybody can provision anything? Does "NoOps" really portend a future where nobody has to do any operations? We will discuss these topics, relying on the real-world experiences of undergoing these transformations multiple times and in different ways at a Fortune 300 company.