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Speaker: Rudi van Drunen

Abstract

The challenge we were facing about 1.5 years ago was how to transform a consultancy company into a product company. Where the main focus of Oelan was on test and integration consultancy the plan is to grow into a company that combines product development and operations with consultancy (on the products) in a short period of time.

The basic idea was to embrace and strengthen the skills that Oelan was using in consultancy and add skills to enable product development and service operations. This meant that the agile way of working (in business agility) the transparency and trust had to be preserved while adding an operational and product development mentality. All this combined we started implementing it all the DevOps way.

in this presentation we discuss the experience of a year of fun, hard working, creating teams, moving from “It’s done when it runs on my laptop” to an integrated setup. We have used continuous integration tools from the start to create an environment where automatic deployment is standard, testing and monitoring is key and solving problems using teamwork is in our DNA. The current environment has been growing organically, in a “Grow with the flow” fashion. During this year we have moved from a simple one laptop system for a single product to a cloud based building and deployment environment for a number of web-based applications that are in various stages of maturity.

In the process of setting up the teams, the tools and the technical infrastructure we learned a lot: social, operational and technical. This presentation gives insight in this process, the tools and infrastructure used and the steps we will take to move further into product development and operations.

Biography

Next to being dad and geek, Rudi tries to mold the technical part of the product creation process at Oelan . Rudi has more than 20 years of experience in the UNIX and open standards world, in large (datacenter) and small (embedded) environments. He is an active member of USENIX and likes to visit conferences. In his spare time he's into photography, sailing and travelling, and tries to combine this.