DevOps

Service Ownership is just as much as people problem as a technology problem. With OpsLevel and SCIM, admins can manage users more efficiently and build an accurate service catalog much faster.

Rails is famous for getting projects up and running quickly. Along the way things can get messy and eventually you need to step outside of the framework. Here are some of the lessons we've learned.

OpsLevel now integrates with Azure DevOps Git Repos. ADO Git users can drive Service Ownership from the source–code repositories.

So, you’re looking to create a new project. But before you start, you must decide which scaffolding generator you’ll use. You have two main tools at your disposal which we are going to compare: Cookiecutter vs Yeoman.

Software engineering org charts have never been more complex. Gone are the days of large, stable teams that report to a single leader and work in highly structured ways on long-term projects.

Downtime sucks (duh) - it means unhappy end users and engineers. Failures and error messages frustrate customers and interrupt engineers (or worse, wake them up).

Applications, products, and systems have become more and more complex. Microservices, dependencies, and external services provide greater functionality and improved reliability.

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is more scalable, responsive, and flexible than its synchronous counterpart. That’s because it processes and distributes information as it arrives instead of storing it for processing when a client requests it.

Embracing a microservice architecture typically also means deploying much more frequently, which can seem scary. But favoring many incremental deploys is actually a sound risk mitigation strategy since changes tend to be smaller and more isolated.