Feb
12,
2024
The Observability Myth
A new term is making its way through the grapevine via conferences, Slack channels and Microsoft teams: observability. Just like DevOps, observability has the potential to turn conventional role models on their head and make a significant impact on IT. Observability brings transparency to application landscapes and, among other things, shifts responsibility for application monitoring towards application developers. Ideally, all members of the development team work together with operations towards the common goal of observability.
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"!
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 at Lagom Solutions, discusses ways to map your metrics back to your desired goals and a better understanding of metrics safety. This is the first step for setting the stage for smart, data-driven decision-making.