This document discusses how adopting DevOps practices can help quantify the value of DevOps for a business. It describes some of the challenges faced in traditional operations roles, including spending significant time on unproductive tasks like troubleshooting false alarms. Adopting automation, collaboration tools, and business metrics can help reduce time spent on unproductive work and more accurately measure the impact of outages on revenue. Quantifying these savings can help operators demonstrate the tangible financial benefits DevOps brings to the business.
16. Typical Day
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Open 30 new tickets
Make 200 phone calls
Attend executive P1 status update meeting
Argue about what a P1 and P2 really is
Reprioritize P2 tickets to P1
Reprioritize P3 tickets to P2
Close tickets as ‘Cannot reproduce’ or ‘Duplicate’
25. 2am Friday - #FFS
We have had an
alert that the load on
one of your staging
servers is critical.
26. How much time do false
alarms waste?
Role
Hours Per Week
Cost Per Week
Cost Per Year
Me
20
£400
£20,800
L2
10
£200
£10,400
L3
15
£300
£15,600
Hosting
6
£120
£6240
Network
6
£120
£6240
CMS
10
£200
£10,400
Total
55
£1,340
£69,680
Conservative estimates assuming £20/hour
28. Typical Day
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Open 30 new tickets
Make 300 phone calls
Attend executive P1 status update meeting
Argue about what a P1 and P2 really is
Reprioritize P2 tickets to P1
Reprioritize P3 tickets to P2
Close tickets as ‘Cannot reproduce’ or ‘Duplicate’
29. Things I wish I’d had
1.
2.
3.
4.
Automation
Collaboration
Better Tooling
Business Metrics
30. Things I wish I’d done
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Baseline where I started
Measured my progress
Calculated Business Impact
Promote success not problems
Proved my value
45. Correlate business metrics with your metrics
$64,499 per min
Application Revenue
10.1 s
$11,987 per min
Application
Response Time
100 ms
Application Errors
* Screenshot from US e-Commerce AppDynamics Customer