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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...