Matt and Jeff sit down with Patrick Debois to talk about Patrick's journey from systems engineer to DevOps royalty

Referenced in the show

Patrick discussed his love for continuous learning and referenced some of his favorite books.
The Ironies of Automation is a paper discussing how automation can expand problems rather than eliminate them.
Promise Theory is an approach to coordinating actors and agents in a system about their intentions to each other in the form of promises. The model was originally proposed by Mark Burgess
NoEstimates: How to Measure Project Progress Without Estimating is a 2016 book that explains the “No Estimates” Agile concept.
A trip down memory lane with the very first DevOps Days Ghent back in 2009.

Where you can find us
Patrick

KubeCon in London
DevOps Talks Melbourne
DevSecCon Sydney
O’Reilly Infrastructure Conference

Matt

DevOpsDays NYC March 3rd - 4th
SRECon Americas West March 24th - 26th

Jeff

Panda Express usually on Thursdays

Open CFPs

The CFP for devopsdays chicago will be open at the time of this publishing, so go to devopsdays.org/chicago to check it out!