DevX

Let’s get DevOps to mean Service Ownership again. We broke DevOps. And it’s preventing us from building. When the first cloud providers emerged in the mid-2000s, they unlocked a new superpower: the ability to near-instantly provision hardware. Service-oriented architecture and microservices developed as a new architectural pattern. As a result, DevOps emerged as a practice to organize engineering teams around those new services - combining development and operations responsibilities onto the same team.

Over the last few months at OpsLevel, we’ve changed how we tell interview candidates we’re not moving forward. Instead of a templated response, we now provide specific and actionable feedback for each candidate about where they fell short in our interview process and how they can improve. The results have been spectacular.

Last summer, our team gathered in the woodland heart of Parry Sound, Ontario for the inaugural OpsLevel HackDay. For 24 hours, participants were given total creative freedom while being tasked with creating a demo-able, team-based project. Skills were sharpened, bonds were strengthened, and marshmallows were roasted - it was a blast.

Don’t you hate remembering all of your passwords? With OpsLevel’s Single Sign-On integration all of your microservice data is seconds away without the need for another long and secure password.

OpsLevel just completed its inaugural HackDays and company getaway. We all piled into a few cars and drove up to a beautiful cottage near Parry Sound, Ontario. Surrounded by some of Canada’s best scenery of trees, lakes, and trails, we first set about for 24 hours of programming. Given our geography, we thought about calling the event “Hack the North”, but that name is taken, so “OpsLevel HackDays” it is.

OpsLevel is a fantastic source of truth for all of the information around the microservices in your architecture, including all the tools you use to operate each of your microservices. But it’s not always the easiest to find and discover this information when you really need it - say during a major incident, or during a gameday.