Dominic Wellington

Dominic Wellington is Chief Evangelist at Moogsoft, where his primary focus is on the emerging field of Algorithmic IT Operations (AIOps) - the application of algorithmic and machine-learning techniques to IT operations. He has been involved in IT operations for a number of years, working on SecOps, cloud computing, and data center automation. Dominic is fluent in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish, and has studied and worked between Italy, England and Germany.

Want a Successful Software Build? Just Say No

January 16, 2019 | business culture, business requirements, culture, question, requirements

It is a truth which should be universally acknowledged that the most important skill for a customer-facing job in what we laughingly call "information technology" is a cast-iron ability to say no—and ...

A Vendor Guy Goes To Monitorama

September 18, 2018 | AIOps, infrastructure monitoring, monitorama, monitoring, Moogsoft, observability

I attended my very first Monitorama this year, in Amsterdam, and I have thoughts! First of all, it’s deeply weird speaking at Monitorama when you work for a vendor in the monitoring and ...

Ops: The Other DevOps

July 10, 2018 | IT operations, ITOps, operations, ops, sysadmin

Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on DevOps.com, is about helping developers get easier access to production systems, increasing agility by shortening release cycles. Most of the time, this ...

From One-Size-Fits-All to Custom-Fit for IT Ops

May 11, 2018 | enterprise IT, IT management, IT operations, ITOM

The downfall of the all-in-one IT management suite and the rise of the customized IT Ops toolchain Here is how enterprise IT Ops used to work: you would make your choice among ...

Sneckdowns In IT Operations

March 13, 2018 | devops, DevOps methodologies

What IT operations professionals can learn from the actual paths people take through tools and processes, and the differences from the expected usage model. It has been a snowy winter across much ...

Focusing on the Real Value of AI for IT Ops

January 29, 2018 | artificial intelligence, IT operations, machine learning

In all the hype over AI, let’s concentrate on the real value it can provide, especially for busy IT Ops teams. 2018 is already shaping up to be the year when AI ...

Now is the Time for Full-Stack Operations

December 13, 2017 | full stack, full stack operations, full stack ops, IT operations

The idea of “full-stack developers” is becoming a fairly common one, although it is still widely contested. But what about full-stack operations? There are cycles in the IT industry, and if you ...

Measure What’s Important: DevFinOps

October 27, 2017 | AIOps, cost of IT, DevFinOps, enterprise IT, Enterprise IT Operations, IT operations, ITOps

Lately there seem to have been quite a few DevSomethingOps terms being coined. However, I do think we need one more: DevFinOps. Dev-What-Ops? One of the biggest problems in IT is working ...

AIOps: Managing the Second Law of IT Ops

September 22, 2017 | AIOps, alert correlation, algorithm, ChatOps, collaboration, devops, enterprise, enterprise collaboration, enterprise IT, Enterprise IT Operations, event management, infrastructure monitoring, IT operations, it ops, machine learning, monitoring, Moogsoft, observability, sysadmin

Or, why IT systems keep breaking The tension between the two halves of DevOps is long-standing, going back long before the term was even invented. What underlies the split between Development and ...

From Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations

August 16, 2017 | AIOps, ChatOps, collaboration, enterprise collaboration, enterprise IT, Enterprise IT Operations, IT operations, ITOps, ops

What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurring ...