From Ops to DevOps—and Beyond
Join Adam Serediuk on his journey leading change during the transition from IT Ops to DevOps and the driving forces behind making this change. In this non-tool talk, Adam describes the cultural and organizational approaches, challenges, and techniques his company used in establishing successful DevOps teams and their continuing journey toward NoOps. Adam outlines the steps his organization took to reshape its operations and development teams along with the reasons and the opportunities for making those changes—with tradeoffs and benefits. Any IT Ops team trying to support a company in today’s cloud-connected world knows it requires a new way of thinking, new technology, and new processes. New DevOps practices offer IT and development ways to focus their impact on breadth over depth across the wide array of tools, libraries, and APIs—not just servers in a rack. Adam, who has led DevOps changes in several organizations as they grew, shares his anecdotes and experiences.
Adam Serediuk brings more than fourteen years of operations experience in high scalability architecture and leadership at consumer and enterprise focused businesses. As xMatters’ director of operations, Adam is responsible for developing the company’s cloud platform, and scaling DevOps through salient solutions and innovative thinking. A natural technologist with a lifelong passion for technical operations, he has a reputation for solving tough problems and scaling DevOps. At xMatters, he works alongside a team of developers as well as the business on the common mandate—ship quality products fast while challenging the traditional norm.