The document discusses the challenges faced by SlideShare in deploying to production, including tedious manual deployment processes, lack of automation and visibility. This led to long downtimes, wasted time troubleshooting issues and arguments between teams. To address these problems, SlideShare implemented DevOps practices like automated deployments, continuous integration, monitoring and alerting tools. This improved deployment frequency from zero to 5 times a day, increased visibility, shared ownership and helped scale their engineering processes.
11. Why DevOps @SlideShare?
Deployments were a blocker
Building & maintaining servers was PITA
Zero visibility into the system
No shared ownership
Needed better engineering practices
22. Management's Role
IRC, Email, Phone, Face to face - Get them to
'talk'
Force collaboration when troubleshooting issues,
downtimes
Build cross functional teams
STOP blaming!