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The DevOps Pay Raise

Abstract:

DevOps, when done right, usually goes unnoticed. It’s only when something breaks that all eyes turn to IT. If your boss only sees you when the app is down, however, that’s not really doing your career any favors. In this session we’ll talk about how to prove your value to the organization by looking at the positive side – that is, how much money you’ve saved your company. We’ll take a look at how you can use tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Sensu and Logstash/Kibana to quantify your value to your company. After this session, you’ll be able to walk into a meeting with your boss ready to talk about your teams value to the company.

Speaker:

Dustin Whittle is a Developer Evangelist at AppDynamics where he focuses on helping organizations manage application performance.

Before joining AppDynamics, Dustin was CTO at Kwarter, a consultant at SensioLabs, and developer evangelist at Yahoo!. He has experience building and leading engineering teams and working with developers and partners to scale to meet demand.

When Dustin isn't working he enjoys flying, sailing, diving, golfing, and travelling around the world. Find out more at dustinwhittle.com.

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