With Seetharam Param The complexity of modern DevOps environments requires tooling that enables engineering teams to have maximum visibility into the health and behavior of their workloads. Having an acute understanding of the “moving parts” of an application means issues are resolved faster. However, it’s often the case that outages…

Co-written with Marc Hornbeek a.k.a. DevOps_the_Gray esq, www.EngineeringDevOps.com DevOps CI/CD pipeline tools such as open-source Jenkins are popular because they are easy to get started with, and for simple CI applications, do not cost very much for limited deployments. …

Co-written with Sudhish Mangalasary Organizations continue to modernize their software development and delivery practices to minimize the impact of business disruption and stay competitive. …

Co-written with Seetharam Param, CEO of ReleaseIQ.io I was reminiscing with a friend and former colleague of mine recently about how we both have experienced product and service releases that were under tremendous pressure to deliver a new feature or capability and were already behind schedule. Along with the highly…

Co-written with Seetharam Param, CEO of ReleaseIQ.io I was reminiscing with a friend and former colleague of mine recently about how we both have experienced product and service releases that were under tremendous pressure to deliver a new feature or capability and were already behind schedule. Along with the highly…

SlackOps for PagerDuty Part 5 In this installment of our Series we are going to explore some things you need to do during your PagerDuty incident response. Things let setting the incident commander, assigning tasks, and running through a basic triage. Some of these activities are run for every incident…

Co-written with Mike Dimitroff, CTO of RigD.io Chatbots as UI — what we have so far Do you need a bot to translate for you? One that is “fluent in over six million forms of communication” could certainly come in handy sometimes. Handy enough to put up with its… shortcomings. But if you need to “interpret the entire Imperial…

DevOps has taken the application and operations community by storm. The unification of application development and application operations has already shown profound effects on the application lifecycle of service/product ideation, architecture, build, test, deploy, configure and operate. Where traditionally application development was owned by the business, or lines of business…

As someone who has experienced the highs and lows that accompany life as a Product Manager, I am keenly aware of the challenges this important role plays in the technology industry [and so many others]. Where many of the departments in the organization — whether large or small — may…