Enterprise DevOps and Unicorns
summary
Lessons from startups get mapped to Fortune 100 realities with concrete outcomes: Heroku scales ops from 2 to 10 people while serving 60,000 then 1.5M apps, LivingSocial handles ~$1B annual transactions, a home-improvement team deploys from repo to production with no manual steps, and an attempted chatops product (Operable) fails as a business despite solid tech. Enterprises succeed by enabling opt-in tooling, fostering internal open-source communities and closed-loop feedback, and confronting bottlenecks like change approval is the mind killer.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:12Fighting hero culture
- 3:52Empathy
- 7:40Failure
- 10:22Make Tiny Decisions
- 11:44Do the Simplest Thing
- 12:38Ask the Problem
- 15:45Linear Causation
- 17:35The Present
- 19:05Theres more than one way
- 20:48Jesuit fear
- 21:21Fear change approval
- 24:25Optin vs allin
- 26:33Communities of practice
- 28:51Underestimating yourself
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