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The Automation Slippery Slope
A mantra of being DevOps is to automate your problems away. While this is a great idea to ensure you no longer have to do those manual...
David Peček
Mar 10, 2020


Runbook Evolution
Runbooks in the past have been an invaluable tool for NOC teams to be able to quickly diagnose and resolve problems with production...
David Peček
Feb 28, 2020


Proactively Finding Problems Before Customers Notice
Sounds simple right? We should know about problems with our product before our customers do. However if you are working with a legacy...
David Peček
Feb 13, 2020


What to Blame: Infrastructure or Code?
I wanted to bring this up as I am seeing a common trend in troubleshooting where the infrastructure supporting the applications is being...
David Peček
Feb 3, 2020


Vendor Lock-In: Minimizing Impact
Building off of a previous post on only writing code which relates to your business, following this model, you will inevitably need to...
David Peček
Nov 3, 2019


Reducing Operational Alert Fatigue
If you have ever worked in the operations of a company, you are aware of how many sources are trying to alert you of issues going on with...
David Peček
Jun 11, 2019


Meeting Goals in a DevOps / SRE World
Try as we might to make the idealistic goals of where we would like the state of our systems to be a reality, there are operational...
David Peček
Apr 28, 2019


Designing and Creating Operationally Stable Software
Operations should be a part of all development planning for new applications. They offer a unique perspective on longer term use of...
David Peček
Feb 18, 2019


Your Only Code Should Be Your Specialty
When I started in software, tooling for operational needs was not nearly as prevalent as it is today. When you need monitoring,...
David Peček
Nov 14, 2018


On Reducing Operational Chaos: the Costs of Toil
For anyone who has ever worked in production operations support, you know how your job can vary widely between a stable planned out day...
David Peček
Jun 3, 2018


Code Yourself Out of a Job
The definition of an effective DevOps or SRE is to code or automate yourself out of a job. In any operational job there are plenty of...
David Peček
Mar 15, 2018
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