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Containers will not fix your broken culture (and other hard truths)

SpringOne Platform
Las Vegas, Nevada
2016-08-01 to 2016-08-04


SpringOne Platform keynote

Containers will not fix your broken culture. Microservices won’t prevent your two-pizza teams from needing to have conversations with one another over that pizza. No amount of industrial-strength job scheduling makes your organization immune to Conway’s Law.

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Containers will not fix your broken culture (and other hard truths) - SpringOne Platform from bridgetkromhout

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yay. @bridgetkromhout in the main keynote. containers won't fix your broken culture.

— Hey Dad! Boomer! (@monkchips) August 2, 2016

Love it when @bridgetkromhout drops some hard truths. 😊 Wish everyone were here at #s1p, great stuff! pic.twitter.com/2Keceaw3HG

— Mark⚡️Heckler 👨🏻‍💻🍃✈️ (@mkheck) August 2, 2016

#Containers not the universal panacea some might think @bridgetkromhout #s1p pic.twitter.com/PoMEzWPw7K

— F a i z P a r k a r (@_CloudNinja) August 2, 2016

Containers will not fix your broken culture -- @bridgetkromhout #SpringOne pic.twitter.com/B46qbIe84x

— Barton George (@barton808) August 2, 2016

@bridgetkromhout on "Why Containers Won't Fix Your Broken Culture" #s1p pic.twitter.com/W5yz09BKSG

— Mark D. Carlson (@mdcarlson) August 2, 2016

.@bridgetkromhout takes the main stage at #springone and tells us some truths about culture pic.twitter.com/Ui71hvIZ55

— nicole forsgren PHD IN COMPUTERING THINGS (@nicolefv) August 2, 2016

Hearing @bridgetkromhout discuss "Containers will not fix your broken culture" #springoneplatfirm pic.twitter.com/pVcbz8akLw

— Chase Gregory (@GregChase) August 2, 2016

Next up @bridgetkromhout on #DevOps - she comes from the land of 1k DevOps stereotypes #S1P pic.twitter.com/CLBvyS2qL9

— Holger Mueller (@holgermu) August 2, 2016

"The land of 10,000 devops cliches..." @bridgetkromhout #S1P pic.twitter.com/FboB4gRdSt

— Matt Stine (@mstine) August 2, 2016

@bridgetkromhout “we were running Docker when the website said absolutely don’t run this in production and we’re just like YOLO!“ #S1P

— Dustin Schultz (@schultzdustin) August 2, 2016

.@bridgetkromhout is killing it @ #S1P "containers will not fix your broken tech culture" pic.twitter.com/N3Yig2XHp5

— Paula Kennedy (@PaulaLKennedy) August 2, 2016

"#Containers will not fix your broken #tech culture." Wisdom and hard truths from @bridgetkromhout at #S1P pic.twitter.com/qcxE7RDZGh

— Mark D'Cunha (@mdcunha) August 2, 2016

Does a wall of confusion exist between your dev and ops teams? @bridgetkromhout #S1P pic.twitter.com/irn1rGgl2Y

— F a i z P a r k a r (@_CloudNinja) August 2, 2016

"Team YOLO" vs "Team Nope" in the IT culture wars. @bridgetkromhout at #s1p

— Mark D. Carlson (@mdcarlson) August 2, 2016

Hah! @bridgetkromhout's talk has @flypdx carpet. Represent!

— Heidi is Doing A Think about tech (@wiredferret) August 2, 2016

And no surprise - @bridgetkromhout sees containers as boundary objects between Dev and Ops #S1P pic.twitter.com/t1TzAdWMb3

— Holger Mueller (@holgermu) August 2, 2016

.@bridgetkromhout - despite containers - teams still need to talk. >> Pizza is save as #1 software food. #S1P pic.twitter.com/jGOyZwOr7a

— Holger Mueller (@holgermu) August 2, 2016
“Early on Docker said absolutely don’t run this production. We were like oh well – YOLO!”@bridgetkromhout #S1P pic.twitter.com/Jk4bKomw3J

— Kenny Bastani (@kennybastani) August 2, 2016

Brilliant anti-pattern name from @bridgetkromhout: “two pizza silos” #agile #devops #culture

— Chuck D'Antonio (@crdant) August 2, 2016

Microservices require communication. API's are not the same as talking to each other.@bridgetkromhout

— Heidi is Doing A Think about tech (@wiredferret) August 2, 2016

And @bridgetkromhout is with @larryellison - It's just computers [on a network] #S1P pic.twitter.com/TDYfQNBl8K

— Holger Mueller (@holgermu) August 2, 2016

@bridgetkromhout - Communication patterns of an organization determine the software that the organzation needs / build. #S1P

— Holger Mueller (@holgermu) August 2, 2016

@bridgetkromhout Totally agree... “Containers won’t fix your broken corporate culture.” #SpringOne pic.twitter.com/ausUPeMsMv

— anthony_barkley (@anthony_barkley) August 2, 2016

@bridgetkromhout explaining why great technologies are only as good as the culture that embraces them. #s1p pic.twitter.com/ouZlhSR4hV

— Dwayne Forde (@dwayneforde) August 2, 2016

“Real Talk: Containers are just a tool, they’re one component of a modern platform.” - @bridgetkromhout pic.twitter.com/WB5jQEDm2s

— Pivotal (@pivotal) August 2, 2016

The COMMUNICATION PATTERNS (not the org chart) dictate the design of your software. @bridgetkromhout's revision of Conway's Law. #s1p

— Heidi is Doing A Think about tech (@wiredferret) August 2, 2016

Indeed @bridgetkromhout - it's probably fine #s1p pic.twitter.com/UADfPYenOw

— Matt Stine (@mstine) August 2, 2016

"You need useful windows into your event stream" @bridgetkromhout on #Microservices at #SpringOne pic.twitter.com/D6Ht7V7AjV

— Dormain 🧟‍♀️ (@DormainDrewitz) August 2, 2016
Among the many nuggets in @bridgetkromhout’s #S1P talk: “put the why in commit messages, not just the what”

— Adrian Cole (@adrianfcole) August 2, 2016

@bridgetkromhout #SpringOne "Put the why in your commit messages, not the what" Well said!

— Wesley Reisz (@wesreisz) August 2, 2016

"You can't Field of Dreams you organizations future" - @bridgetkromhout #S1P

— Dave Townsend (@davetownsend) August 2, 2016

“If you take one thing away from this conference make it put the why in your commit messages not just the what."@bridgetkromhout #sp1

— Charles Humble (@charleshumble) August 2, 2016

"Include the #why in your commit messages, not just the #what." - @bridgetkromhout at @spring1platform

— Sam Brannen (@sam_brannen) August 2, 2016

Great talk on DevOps culture by @bridgetkromhout pic.twitter.com/n5g06l6ZSm

— David Tanacea (@dtanacea) August 2, 2016

Include communication as you navigate your choices with your teams. @bridgetkromhout #springone pic.twitter.com/KtYzXSVj35

— nicole forsgren PHD IN COMPUTERING THINGS (@nicolefv) August 2, 2016

Clouds, Silos, Containers "MN, land of 10,000 lakes and, apparently 10,000 DevOps cliches" @bridgetkromhout pic.twitter.com/j7LQYYp9Bp

— Matt Nelson (@NelsonPivot) August 2, 2016

Hearing @bridgetkromhout discuss "Containers will not fix your broken culture" #springoneplatform pic.twitter.com/XdCazFhIeg

— Chase Gregory (@GregChase) August 2, 2016

Here's @bridgetkromhout's keynote from Day 2 of #S1P, "Containers will not fix your broken culture" #realtalk https://t.co/GrwaeaDTBS

— Pivotal (@pivotal) August 3, 2016

awasome speech.
Containers will not fix your broken culture. https://t.co/RSLgnlg58D @bridgetkromhout

— M, Fatih. (@mfatih_tech) August 3, 2016

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