Take Risks But Don't Be Stupid

Explore responsible risk-taking in DevOps culture through this 43-minute conference talk from USENIX LISA14. Learn how to build an effective pre-production environment that supports experimentation and learning from failure without resorting to reckless practices. Discover techniques and trade-offs for creating a powerful testbed using minimal resources, as demonstrated by Google's approach of running a pre-production environment on just a few dozen instances compared to their production system's several hundred. Gain insights on balancing innovation with responsible system management, and apply these strategies to enhance your own development and operations processes.