I’ve been invited to speak at PyCon Autralia this year, which is pretty exciting. Less exciting than if it were happening in person, and I had a good excuse to travel to Australia. But the online version of PyConAu means you can join from anywhere in the world! Tickets start at just AUD$10 for studends, and are quite reasonably priced for everyone else, so if you use or are interested in Python, this could be a great event for you!

I’ll be talking about my start in DevOps:

The Butterfly Effect

How a single bit changed my career

I relate the story of a single bit gone wrong back in 2006, which launched my career on a new trajectory of root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, and DevOps.

In 2006 I had just started a new job when a bad release brought every one of our hundreds of customers mail servers to its knees. In this talk, I’ll walk through a high-level “incident postmortem” of this event, the lessons I (and my team) learned, and how this years-ago incident changed my career and paved my way toward DevOps.