Monitoring and the ‘Dark Side’ of DevOps

June 20 2012 | By Robyn Weisman | in DevOps
Dark Side of DevOps

The #monitoringsucks meme appears to be a response to outdated systems that, according to Jason Dixon, DevOps engineer at Heroku: …do a lot of #@?!, sometimes poorly. And almost always, in a disjointed manner, caused by years of feature creep and parity. Too many moving parts, layers upon layers of antiquated code (and bugs), and .. Read More »

Zenny’s Cloud Links #60 – Gartner Trends, Intel & Open Source, DevOps

June 8 2012 | By Travis Balinas | in Amazon
Zenoss at Cisco Live 2012, #clus

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of June 4th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Is OpenStack the new .. Read More »

Giving @lusis Credit for #monitoringsucks

June 8 2012 | By Robyn Weisman | in DevOps
Good Job postit note

@lusis seems like a modest guy. If he hadn’t seen my last blog post, he might have forgotten that he turned #monitoringsucks into an organized objective just a little over one year ago. But then he writes in his latest post: I didn’t set out to start a “movement”. I’m not someone who handles compliments .. Read More »

Turning #monitoringsucks into #monitoringsucksless

June 4 2012 | By Robyn Weisman | in DevOps
#monitoringsucks hashtag

About a month ago @roidrage (AKA Mathias Meyer) posted the following intriguing tweet: It’s good to see that ‪#monitoringsucks‬ is starting to slowly turn into ‪#monitoringsucksless‬. So I emailed him (because I was too self-conscious of putting what could be seen as a stupid question on Twitter) to ask: I saw your tweet … and .. Read More »