Feb
12,
2024
Debunking the Observability Myth in DevOps Monitoring
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, observability has emerged as a critical aspect of monitoring and maintaining system performance. Yet, misconceptions about its role persist, leading teams to overlook essential metrics and insights necessary for effective DevOps practices. This article explores the observability myth, clarifying what true observability entails and...
Nov
3,
2020
Monsters in combat: exploring application metrics with D&D
What does one of the most popular pen-and-paper role-playing games have in common with application metrics and frameworks like Quarkus or Micrometer? This epic article takes you on an adventure full of monster battles, graphs and metrics. And now everyone grab a d20 and roll to "Read"!
Dec
11,
2019
DevOpsCon Munich 2019 takeaways: Everyone is in Ops now & more
Did you attend DevOpsCon Munich 2019? Perhaps you were there but couldn’t physically attend all of the talks. Well we’ve got you covered. We collected some of the key takeaways from the conference and want to share them with our readers. We learned about the changing role of Ops, how...
Jun
13,
2018
Finding Metrics that matter and using them safely
Data-driven decision-making is a goal of most leaders today. Unfortunately, between the overwhelming amounts of data available to us and the ease of falling prey to misleading vanity metrics, how to begin this journey can feel extremely elusive. In this talk from DevOpsCon 2018 Julia Wester, co-founder and Principal Consultant...