DevOps and system science, CHAOS thought experiments, and learning through meetups

Watch this video interview with developer advocate Laura Santamaria.

Laura Santamaria is a lead developer advocate at Dell Technologies. She loves to learn and explain how things work to bridge the gaps in engineering disciplines. Laura sat down with the All Things Open team at DevOpsDays Raleigh to talk about DevOps and system science, organizational change, and learning through meetups and events.

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Key takeaways

• If you want to make a transformation stick, if you want to bring changes to your company and make sure that it continues past day one or day zero, you’re looking at how to ensure equilibrium across multiple systems within your company.
  
• The best way to ensure that your change sticks in an organization is to think through a CHAOS thought experiment.
  
• I think that a lot of people believe that DevOps is old-fashioned and it’s kind of not really relevant anymore, but they don’t understand that it’s not about the tools. It’s not about these processes that a lot of people have implemented over time. It’s really about the people and about the changes you’re trying to make over this course of time.
  
• Join your local meetup. If you can’t find one, make one. It’s completely okay to have multiple meetups in a city, but bring them all back because that’s really where we learn.