DevOps at Target
summary
Target builds an API platform with full-stack ownership, automation and infrastructure-as-code using OpenStack, GitHub, Jenkins, Chef and HipChat, running 30+ APIs and handling 1.5 billion calls/month with under 10 incidents/month. Release cadence is small and frequent: 80 deployments/week and about 250 commits/week. A dedicated infrastructure automation team introduces reusable primitives, flash-builds and “Lego Ops,” growing contributors from 11 to 30 teams (71 to 134 people) and 270+ repos; reported business ROI includes an IRR above 80%.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 2:10COMPLEXITY which gold gear did you say?
- 2:57MOVING, MOVING, MOVING things keep changing
- 5:32TION PRE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION
- 8:49SAFETY ZONE building an engineer sanctuary
- 13:42ROAD TRIP a devops journey
- 14:46FINDING PERSPECTIVE a gateway to devops
- 17:59ROCKSTAR TEAM getting the band together to rock
- 25:33BUILD COMMUNITY making silos fun
- 27:03SET A NEW COURSE enabling change
- 28:07TAKE THE LEAP it's working for us
