PagerDuty has made a major move from simply alerting team members to potential issues via pager or web to actually becoming an advanced analytics platform to measure team and system performance regarding ...

syslog-ng, riemann, collectd-notifications, elasticsearch: putting it all together Context At our organization (CCIN2P3) we are building an event-based infrastructure to push structured messages to different subsystems for alerting, reporting and storage. Using ...

The Agile Age For a business to survive or, dare I say, thrive in the “Agile Age”, it must adopt agile methodologies. The term agile may ring some bells with those of you ...

There has been a growing interest in the Kanban board, a tool that helps teams visualize their workflows, limit work in progress and get more “done”.   Kanban Boards are mostly associated with ...

Panamax, a new open source tool from CenturyLink brings the promise of building complex Docker based environments like a child using Legos. The tool is a management interface for managing and building ...

This is Part 1 of a series on DevOps with a purpose by Matthew Selheimer, Chief Technical Evangelist and SVP of Marketing at Houston-based ITinvolve. Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial rock these ...

As you most likely know, Docker is a Linux container technology that stands to revolutionize or standardize the delivery mechanism of applications and services in the cloud. Docker, which just turned 1.0, ...

Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software strategy that enables organizations to deliver new features to users as fast and efficiently as possible. The core idea of CD is to create a repeatable, ...

One of my favourite blog posts about PaaS is James Urquhart's ‘Is your PaaS composable or contextual? (Hint: the answer matters)’. In the post, James distinguishes two different types of PaaS: Contextual and ...

There is still much debate surrounding the merits of Enterprise DevOps, some say that DevOps is great for the highly scalable startups but not feasible for the enterprise, while others say that ...

Introduction to Jenkins and ElasticBox ElasticBox has recently released a Jenkins plugin which makes it possible to configure a continuous integration or continuous deployment scenario without writing any code or scripts! How ...

Our founders, back in the day,  were part of the .NET framework team at Microsoft. So it's no surprise that their first version of ElasticBox was written on C#, .NET framework and SQL Server ...