Revisiting Larry Wall's "Three Virtues" through a DevOps lens

In “Programming Perl”, Larry Wall is quoted as saying there are three great virtues of a programmer: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. In this talk we’ll define, dissect and reframe these virtues through the philosophical lens of DevOps and decide if these “great” virtues have a place in DevOps.

Speaker

Jason Harley

Jason’s spent the last 15 years working in operations and systems engineering roles in a cross-section of fields, from high-frequency finance to an OpenStack-based private cloud startup. He is ...

by Kris Buytaert - 10 May, 2019

It’s hard to believe but it is almost 10 years ago since #devopsdays happened for the first time in Gent. Back then there were almost 70 of us talking about topics that were of interest to both Operations and Development, we were exchanging our ideas and experiences `on how we were improving the quality of software delivery. Our ideas got started on the crossroads of Open Source, Agile and early Cloud Adoption.