One of the most interesting changes that I have observed in my career is Microsoft shifting from just being a development organization to truly becoming a DevOps team, in the…
How DevOps Changes Monitoring
The Burden of Monitoring Load Balancers
I was having one of “those” days, and someone asked me to describe what a load balancer did. My answer was something like this. “Imagine your most critical application…
Balancing Stability and Agility
“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture. Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of a state…
No Network for Old Men
“Once upon a time, there was a little network…” No there wasn’t. Your network was never little, or if it was, it didn’t stay that way for long. Corporate…
Walking Through the Network Insight Journey
Visualization of technologies was always in the imagination or drawn out by hand until we were able to incorporate tools like Visio® to help with mapping. At that point, we…
Monitoring Cloud from On-Prem
The use of cloud technology and services–especially public cloud–has become nearly ubiquitous. For example, it has made its way into even the most conservative organizations. Despite the fact that some…