Behind the Book: Gene Kim’s Top
Takeaways from Researching and
Writing ‘The DevOps Handbook’
Gene Kim, Co-author of "The DevOps Handbook" and "The Phoenix
Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”
Tim Buntel, VP Products, XebiaLabs
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Meet Your Presenters
Tim Buntel
VP of Products
@tbuntel
Gene Kim
Co-author of "The DevOps Handbook" and "The
Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and
Helping Your Business Win”
@RealGeneKim
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The DevOps Handbook is Here!
▪  5+ years in the making
▪  23 chapters
▪  48 case studies
▪  98,124 words
▪  48 images
▪  503 endnotes
▪  192 footnotes
Metrics
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High Performers Are More Agile
200x 2,555x
more frequent
deployments
faster lead times
than their peers
Source: Puppet Labs 2015 State Of DevOps Report: https://puppet.com/resources/white-paper/2016-state-of-devops-report
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High Performers Are More Reliable
3x 24x
lower change
failure rate
faster mean time
to recover (MTTR)
Source: Puppet Labs 2015 State Of DevOps Report: https://puppet.com/resources/white-paper/2016-state-of-devops-report
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High Performers Are More
Secure and Controlled
2x 29%
less time spent
remediating
security issues
more time spent
on new work
Source: Puppet Labs 2015 State Of DevOps Report: https://puppet.com/resources/white-paper/2016-state-of-devops-report
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High Performers Win in the Marketplace
2x 50%more likely to exceed
profitability,
market share &
productivity goals
higher market
capitalization growth
over 3 years*
Source: Puppet Labs 2014 State Of DevOps
More on Metrics!
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What is the One Question that
Predicts Performance with
Startling Accuracy?
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“To what degree do we fear
doing deployments?”
Source: Puppet Labs 2015 State Of DevOps: https://puppetlabs.com/2015-devops-report
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Deployment	Lead	Time	Predicts…	
▪  Ability	for	Dev	and	Ops	to	share	a	“common	source	of	truth”	
▪  Effec<veness	of	our	automated	tes<ng	in	the	deployment	pipeline	
▪  Ability	to	quickly	deploy	into	produc<on	without	causing	chaos	and	
disrup<on	
▪  Ability	to	detect	and	correct	problems	through	monitoring	
▪  Ability	for	Dev	and	Ops	to	work	together	in	a	way	that	is	“win	/	win”	
▪  How	quickly	developers	can	get	feedback	on	their	work	
−  Tes<ng,	deploying,	produc<on	outcomes,	customer	outcomes
Automation
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Nordstrom Value Stream Mapping
▪  Courtney Kissler, VP Store Technologies
▪  Initial areas of focus: e-commerce/web, mobile app team,
in-store cafeteria systems
▪  Value stream mapping workshop
−  Mainframe application: Cosmetic Business Office app
−  Long lead times, high error rates
Conway’s Law
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The Birth And Death Of Etsy Sprouter
▪  Conway’s Law: “if you have four groups working on a
compiler, you’ll get a four pass compiler”
▪  A story about teams of engineers implementing changes
−  Devs and DBAs
−  Devs and DBAs and Sprouter team
−  Devs
Security
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Capital One: DevOpsSec
Source: Tapabrata Pal, Capital One
Getting Started
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Improvement Blitzes
▪  LinkedIn Operation Inversion
▪  Etsy Hack Week
▪  Facebook Hack Week
Automated Testing
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Case Study:
2005 Google Web Services
Transformation
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The DevOps Handbook is Here!
▪  5+ years in the making
▪  23 chapters
▪  48 case studies
▪  98,124 words
▪  48 images
▪  503 endnotes
▪  192 footnotes
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Want More Learn More?
To receive the following:
▪  A copy of this presentation
▪  See early drafts of our upcoming DevOps Handbook
▪  The 140 page excerpt of The Phoenix Project
▪  Videos and slides from DevOps Enterprise 2014-2016
▪  Link to the DevOps Audit Defense Toolkit
▪  One hour excerpt of The Phoenix Project audiobook
Just pick up your phone, and send an email:
To: realgenekim@SendYourSlides.com
Subject: devops
realgenekim@SendYourSlides.com	
devops
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What are other DevOps learnings
you’ve had in your journey?
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Session ID:
DevOps Enables
Dynamic, Learning Organizations…
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Dr. Steven Spear
“While	designing	perfectly	
safe	systems	is	likely	
beyond	our	abili<es,	safe	
systems	are	close	to	
achievable”	when	the	four	
following	condi<ons	are	
met…”	
Source: Dr. Steven Spear
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Dr. Steven Spear’s Four Capabilities
1.  See problems as they occur
2.  Swarm and solve problems to create new knowledge
3.  Spread new knowledge throughout the organization
4.  Leaders create new leaders
Source: Dr. Steven Spear
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DevOps	Enterprise:	Lessons	Learned	
▪  On	Oct	19-21,	we	held	the	second	DevOps	Enterprise	Summit,	
a	conference	for	horses,	by	horses	
▪  Speakers	included	fiMy	leaders	from:	
−  Macy’s,	Disney,	Target,	GE	Capital,	Western	Union,	Sherwin	
Williams,	Blackboard,	Nordstrom,	Telstra,	US	Department	of	
Homeland	Security,	CSG,	Raytheon,	IBM,	Ticketmaster,	MITRE,	
Marks	and	Spencer,	Barclays	Capital,	MicrosoM,	Na<onwide	
Insurance,	Capital	One,	Gov.UK,	Fidelity,	Rally	SoMware,	Neustar,	
Walmart,	PNC,	ADP,	…
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ObservaAons	
▪  They	were	using	the	same	technical	prac<ces	and	geng	the	
same	sort	of	metrics	as	the	unicorns	
−  Target:	100+	deploys	per	week,		<	10	incidents	per	month,	enabled	53	
business	ini<a<ves	
−  Capital	One:	100s	of	deploys	per	day,	lead	<me	of	minutes	
−  Macy’s:	1,500	manual	tests	every	10	days,	now	100Ks	automated	tests	
run	daily	
−  Disney:	Has	embedded	nearly	100	Ops	engineers	into	LOB	teams	across	
the	enterprise	
−  Na<onwide	Insurance:	Re<rement	Plans	app	(COBOL	on	mainframe)	
−  Raytheon:	tes<ng	and	cer<fica<on	from	months	to	a	day	
−  US	CIS:	security	and	compliance	tes<ng	run	every	code	commit
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Behind the Book: Gene Kim's Top Takeaways from Researching and Writing 'The DevOps Handbook'