Outgrowing a Startup Culture
summary
Covers concrete steps: writes Ansible playbooks for legacy and QA platforms, builds a greenfield streaming stack with Storm and Zookeeper, and uses the AWS detailed billing to map spend. Shows growth from ~300 to 500 servers, hiring to a four‑person DevOps team, gaining enterprise AWS support, and introducing launch readiness checklists and architecture diagrams. Demonstrates developers adopting Docker Compose and moving to multiple deploys a day as the measurable outcome.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:10Modern DevOps
- 1:44Missing DevOps
- 2:05DevOps culture
- 2:18Caleb Hyde
- 9:18Burning the Beginning
- 10:26Greenfield
- 11:28Raised Awareness
- 11:51Growing
- 14:07Legacy
- 15:08Enterprise Support
- 16:24Platform Coverage
- 18:25Progress
- 19:10Leadership
- 21:25Outro
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