DevOps Days Podcast

Is your performance monitoring using real-time analytics in a way that will produce results or noise and frustration? Real-time analytics can improve the value of performance monitoring by enabling operations teams to pinpoint problems faster and proactively manage applications, but it’s notoriously difficult to harness its value. In this presentation, we will show you how to avoid the pitfalls of partial analytics implementation, and explain the value of a comprehensive monitoring analytics platform.

This session will cover the history of Devops. We will look at some of it’s early influences and influencers. Also included will be some best practice case studies and an overview of some of the most widely used tools.

For the past two years my team and I worked with a large federal agency to deploy & migrate to a new container-as-a-service platform based on Docker. The migration has enabled development teams to isolate components of their code for faster, more reliable development. But, we also saw that the additional tooling - such as monitoring technology - supporting these services doesn’t yet map to the model that developers need to efficiently monitor their own services. In essence, the Develop->Test->Monitor loop is still broken for modern environments. So how do you fix it?

This presentation is based on my real-world experience with container platforms. Based on this work, I’ll address: How do you effectively instrument your systems, without pushing too much burden on to developers? How do you isolate data, dashboards, and alerts in a way that improves security while simplifying analysis? What can you do to give developers deep information when troubleshooting, without giving them the keys to the kingdom? How do you facilitate data-driven conversations among your developers and ops teams?

If you attend this talk, you’ll walk away with tested, practical ideas that will help your teams become more self-sufficient, improve data-driven conversations among your teams, and evolve your monitoring infrastructure to work more effectively with your CaaS platform.

Welcome to the US Patent and Trademark Office. Our CIO will share some insights on why DevOps is so important to the USPTO.