Discover how context-aware reliability contracts (CARC) redefine SLOs for hyperscale systems—optimizing uptime, reducing infrastructure spend by 33%, and aligning reliability with business value across user tiers, regions, and workloads.
Tips on Rightsizing to Reduce AWS Costs Now
In this business climate, everyone is looking to reduce costs. CFOs are reevaluating their software and infrastructure spend, and naturally, companies are looking for ways to optimize their AWS costs. In fact, we are now leveraging a major reason cloud is so compelling in the first place: you have more flexibility to control costs based […]
Embedding Predictive Analytics
For an enterprise with a deep DevOps maturity model, the initial “wow” factor of automation has worn off. At this point, the sexier concepts involve proving continuous improvement. As an example, our first baseline of metrics might have taken the pre-DevOps timings of a typical build and deployment of a given application. We can measure […]
The Beauty of Inheritance Architectures
Spoiler alert: This article is not about inheriting your great-grandparent’s estate. It is rather about how embedding the principles of inheritance into the architecture of your chosen DevOps toolset can yield exponential results. And yes, I realize that you, the customer, have little to do with what a vendor builds its tooling architecture upon. However, […]
Interoperability’s Impact on Transparency
We fix what we see is broken. Providing “transparency” into the DevOps-enabled software development life cycle (SDLC) has tangential goals of quickly illuminating what is broken, running slower than it should or working flawlessly. Automated testing systems, for instance, are generally good at highlighting pass/fail results from integrated testing in the development process. Once they […]
DevOps and the Near-Decapitation of Variability
Not all automation scales. One of the chief impediments of delivering an enterprise-class DevOps service is the decentralization of tooling choices—or worse, the methodologies within the tool for delivering CI/CD. If the methods used to deliver automation are as varied as the last engineer who created them, the spaghetti that ensues will not scale much […]