Simple ways to be confident in automated server and application deployments.

Monday, January 7th, 2013

Sample SAT question: xUnit is to Continuous Integration as what is to automated server deployments? We've been going through lots of growth here at LogicMonitor. Part of growth means firing up new servers to deal with more customers, but we also have been adding a variety of new services: proxies that allow our customers to route ...

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In (Dev) ops, a release is only as good as its worst effect

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

You released new code with all sorts of new features and improvements. Yay! Now, after the obvious things like "Does it actually work in production", this is also the time to assess: did it impact my infrastructure performance (and thus my scalability, and thus my scaling costs) in any way. This is ...

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