Mike Loukides > Quotes

“the problem isn’t finding data, it’s figuring out what to do with it.”
― Mike Loukides, What Is Data Science?

“The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products”
― Mike Loukides, What Is Data Science?

“the best data scientists tend to be “hard scientists,” particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors.”
― Mike Loukides, What Is Data Science?

“A better world won’t come about simply because we use data; data has its dark underside.”
― Mike Loukides, Ethics and Data Science

“Infrastructure as Code.” If you’re going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Ethics really isn’t about agreeing to a set of principles. It’s about changing the way you act.”
― Mike Loukides, Ethics and Data Science

“The new sysadmin won’t power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he’ll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“The new sysadmin won’t power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he’ll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service. With”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Developing applications that can run effectively in a hybrid environment: that’s the responsibility of developers, with healthy cooperation with an operations team.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“The only way to create an ethical culture is to live it.”
― Mike Loukides, Ethics and Data Science

“The slogan goes, “Move fast and break things.” But what if society is broken?”
― Mike Loukides, Ethics and Data Science

“The companies that didn’t suffer, including Netflix, knew how to design for reliability; they understood resilience, spreading data across zones, and a whole lot of reliability engineering.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“it’s important not to divorce developers from the consequences of their work since the fires are frequently set by their code.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“With automation at this level, the new “ops guy” won’t care if he’s responsible for a dozen systems or 10,000. And the modern BOFH is, more often than not, an old-school sysadmin who has chosen not to adapt.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Susan Etlinger has suggested that, in a time when public distrust and disenchantment is running high, ethics is a good investment.”
― Mike Loukides, Ethics and Data Science

“it’s important not to divorce developers from the consequences of their work since the fires are frequently set by their code. So,”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?

“Why not let employees pull features out of production?”
― Mike Loukides, Ethics and Data Science

“Operations is crucial to success, but operations can only succeed to the extent that it collaborates with developers and participates in the development of applications that can monitor and heal themselves.”
― Mike Loukides, What is DevOps?