How we miserably fail at sharing the DevOps mindset
summary
Asserts that DevOps is fundamentally DevOps = collaboration and that the community reaches only a sliver of its audience: 85 DevOpsDays ≈ 25k annual attendees vs ~27M developers + 5.4M ops ≈ 32M total engineers, a gap the talk treats as a failure. Notes commercial vendors sell courses, certifications and maturity assessments and one firm trains >1,000,000 people, so argues the community lacks marketing and sales, and recommends building bridges with industry instead of gatekeeping.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:06DevOps Days milestone
- 2:51Failing to share DevOps mindset
- 3:36Defining the DevOps mindset
- 4:21DevOps tools vs mindset
- 5:24DevOps certifications critique
- 6:50DevOps titles and silos
- 8:18Market demand for DevOps roles
- 9:20Reaching the right audience
- 11:31Commercial companies' success
- 13:20Open source marketing gap
- 15:28Community strengths and weaknesses
- 16:11Building bridges with industry
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