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Geek Sync – Database People and DevOps: The Fundamentals

DevOps is a software delivery philosophy that focuses on delivering quality, faster. Join IDERA and Stuart Ainsworth to learn about the basic principles of DevOps and how they apply to database development and administration. Everyone’s environment is different, but the strategies discussed within can be translated into basic tactical gains that are easy to implement.

Topics covered include:

  • a (VERY) brief history of DevOps

  • why DBAs make the best DevOps engineers

  • what admins can teach developers, and what developers can teach admins

Speaker: Stuart Ainsworth is an IT manager working in financial information security. Over the past 20 years, he’s worked as a research analyst, a report writer, a DBA, a programmer, and a public speaking professor. He’s a chapter leader for AtlantaMDF, the SQL Server user group in Atlanta, as well as a speaker at SQLSaturdays, PASS Summit, code camps, and user groups.