So… DevOps. DevOps vs NoOps has been making the rounds lately. At Bazaarvoice we are spawning a bunch of decentralized teams not using that nasty centralized ops team, but wanting to do it all themselves. This led me to contemplate…
So… DevOps. DevOps vs NoOps has been making the rounds lately. At Bazaarvoice we are spawning a bunch of decentralized teams not using that nasty centralized ops team, but wanting to do it all themselves. This led me to contemplate…
In my Design for Failure article, I mentioned how many of the common techniques we use to allegedly detect failure really don’t. This time, we’ll discuss your monitoring and why it is lying to you. Well, you have some monitoring,…
Welcome to the second installment in Scrum for Operations, a series where I talk about (and go through) the process of doing systems work as part of a DevOps team according to the Scrum methodology. Last time, I introduced the…
Agile It’s not a mandatory part of DevOps, but I believe that DevOps works a lot better if operations teams adopt Agile. But all that most systems teams know about Agile is that “it’s that thing that makes the development…
I was just reading the newest “state of DevOps” post on Agile Web Operations by James Turnbull and he mentions a set of rules some mainframe guys taught him back in the day: Think before you act Change one thing…
Whew! This is a marathon. Next, we have John Willis and Damon Edwards on The Infrastructure Philharmonic: How Out of Tune are Your Operations? I really wanted to see Lenny’s talk as well but had to make a hard decision. …
Monty Taylor from Rackspace talked about Drizzle, a MySQL variant “built for operations“. My thoughts will be in italics so you can be enraged at the right party. Drizzle is “a database for the cloud”. What does that even mean? …
How The Pros Do It Facebook Operations – A Day In The Life by Tom Cook Facebook has been very open about their operations and it’s great for everyone. This session is packed way past capacity. Should be interesting. My…
Back from break and it’s time for more! The dealer room was fricking MOBBED. And this is with a semi-competing cloud computing convention, Structure, going on down the road. Lightning Demos Time for a load of demos! dynaTrace Up first…
From the “sad but true” files comes an extremely insightful point apparently discussed over beer by the UK devops crew recently – that we are talking about dev and ops collaboration but the current state of collaboration among ops teams…
