DevOps is speeding towards the IT world like a freight train and the hype
around it is deafening. There is no reason to be afraid of this change as it
is the natural reaction to the agile movement that revolutionized development
just a few years ago. By definition, DevOps is the natural alignment of IT
performance to business profitability. The relevance of this has yet to be
quantified but it has been suggested that the route to the CEO's chair will
come from the IT leaders that successfully make the transition to a DevOps
model. If this still seems foreign to you, I recommend reading up on DevOps
Blog from IT Revolution, the OpsCode Blog, and check out The Phoenix Project.
Despite all the talk around simple monitoring tools, breaking through the
walls between Dev and Ops still poses a real challenge. This is because of a
misunderstanding around Operations real purp... (more)
Transformation to Continuous Innovation and Optimization
Businesses have always had to transform to find better and more efficient
ways to deliver value faster to their users, customers or consumers. The
motivating factors are shorter lead times, automated and streamlined value
flow, as well as reduction of overall costs and bound capital, requiring
enterprises to transition to a continuous innovation and optimization model.
Prominent examples can be found when studying the last decades in the
automobile industry with Toyota and their way of optimizing and automating
their end-to... (more)
I already listened to a couple of talks on the cloud. The whole cloud topic
start to grow up, meaning more and more application scenarios for the cloud
are appearing.
Yesterday there was a very useful classifcation of cloud services. The
differentiated cloud services at a couple of different levels.
Infrastructure as a Service - providing computing power or storage Stack as a
Service - providing infrastructure plus an application stack like J EE based
on e.g JBoss Platform as a Service - providing a whole development stack
including services like messaging, storage (examples are ... (more)
The Moscone Center in San Francisco opened the gates for VMworld 2009. Over
the next couple of days the attendees, partners and the press will hear the
news about upcoming trends and challenges in virtualization and how VMware
(and their user base) is going to face them. The first announcement was about
VMware Go [...] Related posts:
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chance... Live from JavaOne 2009 – Day 1 JavaOne 2009 officially started
with the open Keynote delivered by... Live from JavaOne – The Cloud Growing
Up? I already listened to a coup... (more)
The 2008 Aberdeen Report on Application Performance Management listed the top
challenges for Application Performance Management. The Inability to measure
SLAs around application performance is in the top 5 list.
Traditional SLA enforcement
You will find different solutions out in the market that offer monitoring
your service infrastructure. Following is a list of sample measures that are
captured on the individual components:
Application Servers CPU, Memory, I/O, Network Disk space Application specific
counters … Web Servers Response Times Active Sessions … Database
Transaction v... (more)
Andreas Grabner has been helping companies improve their application performance for 15+ years. He is a regular contributor within Web Performance and DevOps communities and a prolific speaker at user groups and conferences around the world. Reach him at @grabnerandi
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