Understanding Observability

Last week my understanding of Observability went up astronomically. In fact, it was taken to an all new dimension, all by one tweet by Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy): Observability, short and sweet: – can you understand whatever internal state the system has gotten itself into? …just by inspecting and interrogating its output? …even if (especially if)…

Modernizing your Data Strategy for a data-driven business

The Houston Astros became the World Champions of Major League Baseball in 2017 by leveraging Data. Sure they had the best team, made up of individual players, which won the championship. But they got to the team and its performance by leveraging the data they had on players. Players who were existing pros in both…

Adopting DevOps – Part V: Addressing Data Friction

Around 18 or so months ago (mid-2017) I started seeing a new trend in the DevOps adoption engagements my colleagues and I were driving. (I was with IBM at that time as their global CTO of DevOps Adoption, leading the cross IBM-business unit DevOps adoption practice). Clients we were working with were beginning to ask…