Best speaker gift ever! Thank you, @divineops.net I love my DevOps princess yak. She’s perfect. And thank you, @chicago.devopsdays.org , for letting me share my ideas with y’all. What a great crowd.

“When I went from Puppet to CircleCi, I could suddenly look at real data instead what people report on the survey. People are freaking liars!” @stahnma.bsky.social #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

“Incident managers are the unsung heroes of this industry!“ Keith Willoughby #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

A #devopsfriends with @divineops.net and all the folks at @chicago.devopsdays.org !

“We need automation for the healthy economies of scale. We mix by hand to learn the craft, we automate to improve efficiency” Heather Thacker #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

“You should probably not just hit apply and watch what happens to your infrastructure. The problem is that testing Terraform kind of sucks” Robert Haffner #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

“Why am I doing this talk? Because nobody pays attention to security in Postgres. NOBODY!” Henrietta Dombrovskaya #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

“When you do what’s easy, life becomes hard. And vice versa!” Robert Snyder #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

@divineops.net made the cutest yak, thank you so much!

Annie Hedgepeth @anniehedgie.bsky.social, talking about why professional networking is as important as building great software #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

DevOpsDays Chicago 10 is tomorrow! Here’s @darkandnerdy.bsky.social with some thoughts on the event and community!

On my way to Chicago, for @chicago.devopsdays.org, Chicago JUG hosted by @mgrygles.bsky.social, and JCP EC meeting in San Francisco! BER -> FRA -> ORD Let's go!

Today is DevOpsDays Chicago 10! A community member shared this post with me yesterday which they wrote after attending @chicago.devopsdays.org 2017: batshitcrazyfarms.com/hope-and-cha...

Full house at @paulczar.bsky.social talk about why you really should build a _local_ GenAI system #devopsdays @chicago.devopsdays.org

DevOpsDays Chicago 10th anniversary is ON! First up - Reid Savage on anti-devops at @honeycomb.io - when transparency is bad, and when silos are good, and when iteration gets in the way! #DevOpsDays

My favorite time of the year! #DevOpsDays Chicago 2025 @chicago.devopsdays.org

Kicking off the 10th iteration of #DevOpsDays Chicago! So happy to see this community again!

Organizations have a limited number of innovation tokens. Are you going to innovate on your org or your product? #devopsdays

@matty.wtf and @divineops.net are kicking off the day for us! #devopsdays

And here’s a great one from 2017 of me and @divineops.net as emcees with all the attendees!

Catch Annie Hedgpeth at #DevOpsDays Chicago! Her talk, Firewalls and Friendships, will inspire you to rethink professional networking by applying IT systems principles. Build connections that are genuine, balanced, and impactful. March 18—don’t miss it! 🌟 #DevOps

Calling all Cloud Native enthusiasts! Leigh Capili’s workshop, Let’s Learn Cloud Native Nix at #DevOpsDays Chicago on March 18, will show you how to use Nix for declarative, reproducible systems. Don’t miss out on this fun and educational session! 🔧 #NixOS

Touch grass with your SLOs! Reid Savage at #DevOpsDays Chicago on March 18 will discuss the benefits and challenges of breaking down silos in SRE and why social and cross-functional collaboration is key. 🌱 #SRE #DevOps

Great DevOps steal

Learning to learn, what’s it really like to do all that DevOps-y transformation at companies, and more, @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social and I talk with with @divineops.net www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/91

One more weather change last week 😎

Wild

Has anyone found a way to configure LinkedIn notifications so that they actually display people's interactions with _you_? My notifications are all marketing of other people's posts & stats on how many searches I appeared in, whereas all I actually care about is human engagement.

“To reduce bureaucracy, take away opportunities to gain status that aren’t aligned with the goals and values of the company” — Andrew McAffee The Geek Way

Achtung Freunde - GitHub is expanding our DevRel team, and we'd love to hire an amazing Senior Developer Advocate based out of Munich, Germany! If you know someone who would be perfect, please share this with them! #jobs #hiring githubinc.jibeapply.com/jobs/3760

What? #GenAI doesn't necessarily increase productivity?! Well, darn, @divineops.net, what do we do now?! #mlopsvision

“It’s really easy to build cool AI demos. It is really hard to put them in production.” — Brian Sletten #DevOpsVision

A bit of a weather change yesterday ✈️😃

Deleting actually seems scarier to me than not deleting. At least while it's still "mine" I have some semblance of control over the data and the username.

Has your developer productivity actually increased with GenAI adoption? Join me at DevOps Vision in Clear Water Florida on December 3rd to talk through avoiding the common pitfalls in working with GenAI tools

Have you been feeling like the AI train is leaving you behind, and you aren't experiencing the massive productivity gains people keep talking about? Join me at DevOps Vision 2024 in Clear Water Florida on December 3rd to talk about the intelligent GenAI adoption

Why do even the most talented teams sometimes fail to deliver results? Just like a group of virtuoso musicians playing different pieces simultaneously would create chaos instead of harmony, organizations often suffer from misaligned efforts that lead to frustration and inefficiency.

Why do I have to click so many times to block a caller on an iPhone? Also, why am I getting so many "job" offers via text lately?

10 months ago I murdered a keyboard with coffee. Yesterday, I murdered another keyboard with *water* 😱 Did keyboards get flimsier? I used to be able to feed them at least 3 cups of coffee 🙃

Hey network! Are you moving your past Twitter posts to Bluesky? I am trying to decide between a migration and a clean slate 🤔

The death of junior professional? Not on my watch! Join me at DevOps Vision conference in Clear Water, Florida on December 3rd to learn practical strategies for GenAI adoption that elevates your entire team - from juniors to seniors - and turns AI hype into real productivity gains.

In other news, LinkedIn seems to be actively murdering posts with AI-generated images, regardless of their engagement rate. Why? This doesn't make any logical sense considering they keep pushing their own AI features

Let's be honest, the biggest GenAI powered improvement to my workflow is that I can look up the correct Git commands much faster 🙃

C# and Java finally meet! 😽 😽

The fanciest restaurant I've ever eaten at: The Fat Duck by Heston Blumenthal in London. Absolutely worth it 🤩

Ok, who has the best waterfront, San Diego vs New York vs London? ⛵

It didn't take long to get a "cable TV" package for LLMs 📺

We keep making straightforward promises about how much money AI is going to save us, while ignoring the “unhappy” path and the second order effects of GenAI integration that might work against us — Dave Rogers , AI for the rest of us

“These systems work fine if you know how to use them” It’s amazing how the folks developing systems for human usage can ignore whether the systes are actually useful -- Lianne Potter, AI for the Rest of Us

I was too busy listening to post all the insights, and I genuinely cannot wait for the recording of @patrickdebois.bsky.social "Conway's Law and GenAI" talk