Testing Dash Metrics with Cucumber (Bradley Taylor) - A short article showing off a Cucumber feature for monitoring with Nagios. Kanban vs. Scrum (Henrik Kniberg) - A great, 26 page long PDF about the similarities and differences between Scrum and Kanban. Absolutely worth reading! Reconnoiter (Theo Schlossnagle) - Theo and his OmniTI Labs are working … Continue reading Behavior Driven Ops, Kanban vs. Scrum and a new upcoming Monitoring and Trending Tool
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Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor
Read about my ideas for Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor. Julian Simpson (@simpsonjulian) is "The Build Doctor", or as he states it: Blogger, professional build manager, systems administrator, caffiene addict, dad. We already had the pleasure to publish his great post Partitions and Warfare. Check out Julians posts there. It's worth it!
Extreme Feedback Device – Business on the Big Screen
For the past couple of months I've been slowly enhancing the capabilities of our website monitoring page. It's displayed on a big 42" LCD display in the middle of our office where everyone can see the latest up-to-the-minute updates in our page impressions, average page response times, number of RSS subscribers, etc. The page refreshes … Continue reading Extreme Feedback Device – Business on the Big Screen
Why rsync is a lousy deployment tool
A couple weeks back I told you how I was preparing subversion to handle our application deployment. Well, I can happily tell you that I finally finished this earlier in the week, but things didn't go exactly as planned. You see, I finally realized rsync is the real workhorse for handling deployments in our environment … Continue reading Why rsync is a lousy deployment tool
The Attack Of The Affiliate Spammer
It happened on an ordinary Friday afternoon at around 6 pm. Suddenly, our traffic at autoplenum.de quadrupeled. Just like flipping a switch. Boom! There it was, tons of new users out of the clear blue sky. My first concern was for our servers and their ability to deal with that peak load. Luckily, I had … Continue reading The Attack Of The Affiliate Spammer
Four short links: 22 Mar 2009
Agile and ITIL, agile sys admins, why to work in small batches and how to handle bugs in an agile context - the topics for todays four short links. Agile and ITIL: A Powerful Combination (Joe Pearson, PM Hut) - I’ve also given a lot of thought on how to join the lean values of … Continue reading Four short links: 22 Mar 2009
Partitions and Warfare
This is a guest post by Julian Simpson. Julian blogs about builds, continuous integration and deployment at The Build Doctor by night. By day, he works in London as a build manager and systems administrator. Previously, Julian did a four year tour of duty at ThoughtWorks who plucked him from a systems administration role. He … Continue reading Partitions and Warfare
System Configurations + Code Revisions = Continuous Integration FTW!
This is a guest post by Patrick Debois, the author of JEDI: Just Enough Developed Infrastructure. I stumbled across Patrick early last year while searching desperately for some relevant topics on "agile operations". One amusing, yet poignant, hit was the lost use cases of Operations. Agile Web Operations didn't even exist at the time, but … Continue reading System Configurations + Code Revisions = Continuous Integration FTW!
What I’ve Learned So Far
I've been working at NetDoktor for three months now. Half way through my trial period, I wanted to take a bit of time to reflect where the last few months have brought me and where I still want to go. Source Code Control I started my work last December of course by spending a lot … Continue reading What I’ve Learned So Far
Improving Operations with Agile
Last week, I suggested that SysAdmins are much more agile than we give them credit for. But, when it comes to organizing their day-to-day work they need just as much help as the rest of us. Today, I want to talk about how agile methodologies work just as well in operations as they do in … Continue reading Improving Operations with Agile
