Archive for January, 2012

Metrics for DevOps

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

At LogicMonitor we take turns learning from each other in informal sessions.  One week it may be  developers talking about MySql and NoSQL; or marketing guys talk about lead generation and Adwords, etc.  This time we'd arrived on the topic of programming languages, and how there is a trade off: ...

How to minimize the impacts of the next Amazon reboot .. or of your own datacenter failure

Friday, January 6th, 2012

So as everyone knows, Amazon rebooted virtually all EC2 instances in December.  They emailed people to notify them, but not everyone read the emails, leading to Amazon performing the reboots on their own schedule, with the customers unaware. For some SaaS companies, this resulted in many hours of downtime. For others, ...