Go Rin No Sho (A Book of Five Rings)

What a 17th century samurai can teach us about DevOps

Matthew BoeckmanVP - Infrastructure@matthewboeckman

First Principle

Do not think dishonestly

Be honest about what’s working, and what isn’t

Second Principle

The Way is in training

Do DevOps, don’t talk about it

Third Principle

Become acquainted with every art

Be conversant across the stack

Fourth Principle

Know the WaysOf all Professions

Develop organizational empathy

Fifth Principle

Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly

matters

Use DevOps inMeasurable ways

Sixth principle

Develop intuitive judgement

and understanding of everything

Pattern recognition Run postmortems

Seventh Principle

Perceive those thingsWhich cannot

Be seen

Measure. Everything.

Eighth Principle

Pay attentionEven

To trifles

Stay dialed in to Your reality

Ninth Principle

Do nothingWhich is of

No use

Do nothing which is of no use

The Way of the Warrior is this:

Resolute acceptance of death.

Accept failure!(thanks! @matthewboeckman)