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Break-Even Analysis: Understanding the Impact of Automation
Determining whether automation is helpful beyond the CI/CD pipeline can be easier through a break-even analysis The pursuit of automating away all the operational tasks in your organization doesn’t stop after you finish building a solid CI/CD pipeline infrastructure using the myriad tools available and making it stable. There are many more one-off tasks not […]
Feb 13, 2019 · 3 minAll articles by Thomas Theakanath
Showing 1–3DevOps Stack on a Shoestring Budget
There are competing products, both open source and licensed, in any DevOps area that you can think of. The Operations groups in companies tend to accumulate such applications over time as determined by ongoing projects. Team members’ familiarity with a certain application could be a factor in adding it to the tools stack. Companies, therefore, […]
Proactive Monitoring
I think, most of the DevOps discussions are centered around testing the code change, packaging and deploying it in production in an automated fashion. However, stinging site-down issues would eventually force any nascent production engineering team to make monitoring a high priority down the road. If functional, integration and acceptance tests are run to verify […]