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The Art of Standing up

Uncovering design pattern in comedy

Who am I.

Why am I doing this.

The Act

• Orator
• Content
• Audience

Orator

Orator

Jester

Orator

Jester Philosophers

Content

Design pattern

• Bizarre Assumption
• Fact twisting
• (Self) humiliation
• Culture shock
• Criminal intentions

SOLID

SOLID

• Single punch line repetition

SOLID

• Single punch line repetition
• Open for interpretation, Closed for discussion

SOLID

• Single punch line repetition
• Open for interpretation, Closed for discussion
• Listen to your audience

SOLID

• Single punch line repetition
• Open for interpretation, Closed for discussion
• Listen to your audience
• Interlink the segregated topics

SOLID

• Single punch line repetition
• Open for interpretation, Closed for discussion
• Listen to your audience
• Interlink the segregated topics
• Deadly ending

Metrics

• Realistic Metrics
• Pleasure driven metrics

Audience

• A. Drunk
• B. I am here because my girlfriend loves comedy
• C. I am here because I love comedy
• D. I hate my job
• E. I have no idea why I am here.

15 30 45 60 A B C D E

Build.Learn.Measure

How can you use comedy.

Please clap.

No, Seriously. clap.

What Can We Really Learn From Martial Arts?

Fabian Förster

Fabian Förster

Software Engineer Deutsche Post E-Post Development GmbH @ffoers

How a kilt saved a life.

Foto: by Anna Fischer https://www.flickr.com/photos/27594459@N04/3922832466/

What is the best Martial Art?

Which Type

• f Learning

Suits You?

Which Type

• f Learning

Suits You?

Foto: Flavio~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/37873897@N06/8008204897

Which Type

• f Learning

Suits You?

Foto: Kyra Gracie in mount by Craig Bush https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigbadwolfmedia/5381574007

Why Even Train Martial Arts?

Foto:One Step - Parkour 02 by Stròlic Furlàn / Davide Gabino https://www.flickr.com/photos/strolicfurlan/7589376566

Train with partners of different skill levels

Train with partners of different skill levels

Foto:Sensei Hatakeyama Goro by giallinovagabondo https://www.flickr.com/photos/giallinovagabondo/2387733570

Train with partners of different skill levels

Foto:Happy Little Ninja by Ron McDonald https://www.flickr.com/photos/themickeyd/2571344957

Teach to learn

Foto: 2009_April_Karate_10 by Devon Christopher Adams https://www.flickr.com/photos/nooccar/3469527379/

Structured Curriculum

Foto: new beginning by Ozone Ferd https://www.flickr.com/photos/ozoneferd/92943395/

Do not be Master Yoda

Foto: NYC - Queens - Astoria: Museum of the Moving Image - Animatronic Yoda by Wally Gobetz https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/5651446908/

Do not be Mister Miyagi

Foto: Mr. Miyagi by Doran https://www.flickr.com/photos/dopey/5748174750

Leave Your Comfort Zone

Foto:AE3R3003 by Don Voaklander https://www.flickr.com/photos/donvoaklander/8481249228

Instant Feedback

Foto: Emily Solon vs Jennifer Darr by Eric Langley https://www.flickr.com/photos/ericlangleyphotography/10327499713

Fokus

Foto: IMG_7526 by WannaBEEFarmer Jeff https://www.flickr.com/photos/wannabeefarm/6160549691

Other Opinions

http://itsadeliverything.com/is-software-craftsmanship-a-type-of-martial-arts http://www.sw-engineering-candies.com/blog-1/top-10-things-software- developers-can-learn-from-martial-arts http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ShuHaRi.html http://www.agile-environment.com/blog/fox-on-software/2013-10-11-aikido-and- the-philosophy-of-software-development http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MartialArtsAsSoftwareDevelopmentMetaphor

The Tale of the Never-ending On-Call Shift

DAVE CLIFFE

@CliffeHangers

Layer between systems and people

Centrally manage on-call calendars, alerting and incidents

What is PagerDuty?

Helping you deliver reliable software to happy customers Trusted by 37 of the Fortune 100 and 6000+ customers globally

Incident #1: Oct 27, 2011 Incident #2: May 1, 2013

Incident #3: Coming Soon …

About Me

is like

Let’s get Physical Practical

JUST THE TIPS

• 1. Monitor & Alert

• 2. Monitor your Monitors

ALERTS YOU ALERTS MONITORS MONITORS

Redundant Systems = Better Sleep

!Redundancy

• 3. Share the Load

Learn when to escalate

Redundant People – Active-Passive, not Active-Active Disclaimer: Single parent? God bless you

But not like this

• 4. Shadow

How often are you waking up?

• 5. Track

• 6. Measure

How are you trending?

CIO, Ferberize, etc.

• 7. Ruthlessly Improve

Was it actionable?

Know the Runbook

• 8. Learn/Teach

What have we learned?

• 1. Monitor & Alert
• 2. Monitor your Monitors
• 3. Share the Load
• 4. Shadow
• 5. Track
• 6. Measure
• 7. Ruthlessly Improve
• 8. Learn/Teach

Thank you!

DAVE CLIFFE

@CliffeHangers

APPENDIX

About PagerDuty

Founded by Amazon engineers Thousands of customers, including 37 Fortune 100 Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners & Andreessen Horowitz Offices in San Francisco and Toronto Over 150 employees

2009

2014 OnDemand 50 Companies to Watch Bessemer Venture Partners Top 300 Private Cloud Companies

Thousands of Customers

37 of the Fortune 100

Every company is software powered

Every company is software powered

1 D&B – F500 companies

downti me

• DOWNTIME $

Businesses lose money 1.6 hours

• f downtime per week1

$46 million

lost per year1

Layer between systems and people

Centrally manage on-call calendars, alerting and incidents

Integrated with over 100 partners

Reliability at any scale

Multi-master, multi-provider, multi-methods

Fully distributed across multiple data centers and hosting providers Multiple providers for each contact method End-to-end testing to provide dynamically reorder providers