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title: "Monki Gras 2017: Kevin Smith – Modern Shrink-wrap Software"
date: 2017-02-15T17:42:35Z
modified: 2017-02-15T17:44:59Z
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type: video
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 756
series:
  - Monki Gras 2017
channel:
  - RedMonk Tech Events
featured_image: "https://redmonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Kevin-Smith-Thumbnail.jpg"
timestamp: 2017-02-15T17:44:59Z
tags:
  - Monki Gras 2017
  - RedMonk Tech Events
---

In this talk [Kevin Smith](http://twitter.com/kevsmith), CTO at Operable, talks about the company’s development journey, and lessons learned from development with Docker-based workflows – taking up the packaging theme with Modern Shrink-Wrapped Software. From Infrastructure (Postgres, AWS, GCP, Redis) to Apps to Automation (Chef, Puppet, Mesosphere, Kubernetes), and of course human factors underlying technology adoption. Kevin explains what ChatOps is, and how Operable’s Cog platform was built for it and packaged as Docker images – “Docker’s big innovation is executable packages”. From Design to Release to Install and lessons learned along the way.