Tag: metrics
Logging: Turning Good DevOps Teams into Great Ones
The competition is on for DevOps teams that are expected to rev up production on a multitude of projects, with teams and companies aiming to stay atop the global software product marketplace ...
DevOps Chat: Instrumentation with Influx Data’s Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, is someone who knows his way around the technology world. In a lifetime of experience that has seen him found and manage several successful companies from ...
Metrics, Logs and Traces: The Golden Triangle of Observability in Monitoring
It isn’t surprising that the job of monitoring infrastructure and application environments has grown more complex as the underlying technologies evolve. Nor is it surprising that the need to get monitoring right ...
How to Fix ‘Dark Debt’ in Your IT Organization’s Culture
Poor decisions, bad metrics, lack of communication can accrue dark debt in any company Buying a low-quality microwave meal from a gas station, kicking a sock under the bed before guests arrive, ...
The Software Testing Metrics That Make Or Break DevOps Success
Organizations today are racing to develop software at a breakneck pace through efficient DevOps processes. But it's important for them to avoid losing sight of the forest for the trees. If too ...
Software Development: A Better Way to Measure Success
Here’s a metaphor for software development you probably haven’t heard before: It’s like flying a plane. You have a starting point and a destination in mind, there’s a good chance you’ll change ...
Knowing What Your Microservices Are Doing
Microservicin' ain’t easy, but it’s necessary. Breaking your monolith down into microservices is a must in a cloud-native world, but it doesn’t automatically make everything easier. Some things actually become more difficult ...
Continuous Deployment and Monitoring of Microservices
Continuous deployment and continuous monitoring have grown up in DevOps, and microservices have grown up as a delivery platform. While all are relatively stable concepts at this point, there are still a ...
Quality Culture, DevOps Forge Better Connections Between IT, Lines of Business
The automation of software development does not obviate the need for a collaboration between IT and the lines of business, or the development of a culture of quality on the part of ...
Spurring the DevOps Adoption Journey
Every few years, the IT canvas is splashed with a new initiative that sparks enthusiasm among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such philosophy gaining significant momentum in today’s digital transformation ...
Improving DevOps Success with Well-Defined Metrics
Collaboration within diverse project teams is often more difficult to achieve when there is no clearly visible aim, the planning is haphazard and the information shared is inadequate. However, these are crucial ...
Measuring What Matters in Evaluating Software Performance
When developing and deploying a new feature or application, performance (speed, reliability) must be closely analyzed. After all, there’s no benefit to delivering a product if it doesn’t work well or users ...