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ChatOps – Secret to great incident management in DevOps teams of 20 or 2000
Chat your way to excellence DevOps is constantly trying to improve production through automation, collaboration and tools. ChatOps is often the paradigm which brings these tasks together into a single conversation. In ChatOps, “chat applications and tools for real-time communication and task execution [are distributed] among members of development and IT operations teams”. Yet often … Continued
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The Secret to Making Your DevOps Team World Class
Continuous deployment is key to world class DevOps With their State of DevOps report released at the beginning of the summer, Puppet clearly defined the characteristics of world class DevOps organizations and the make-up of those lagging behind. According to Nigel Kersten, CIO of Puppet, there is a huge gap between organizations that get DevOps … Continued
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OnPage ensures compatibility with Android 7.0
Maintaining its customer and technology focus OnPage, the leader in incident alerting and management for IT, healthcare and IOT, released the updated version of its application to ensure compatibility with Google’s Android 7.0 N operating system. Affectionately known as Nougat, Android’s newest operating system was only around for a few weeks before the OnPage update … Continued
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What You Need to Know About MTTR and Why IT MaTTeRs
What All Engineering Teams Should Know About Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) In the IT world, performance is everything. So, when technology fails, your first thought is how to utilize incident management knowledge to repair the situation and minimize downtime. As both manager and engineer, you need to minimize your mean time to resolution (MTTR) … Continued
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The secret to blameless post mortems
How your engineering teams can move past finger-pointing to effectively managing mistakes Sidney Dekker’s theory on ‘bad apples’ holds that complex systems think they would be fine if it were not for the erratic behavior of some unreliable people. According to this theory, when unexpected events are seen in an otherwise safe system, they are … Continued
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OnPage uses Tropo to create bilingual office
Spanish-language phone tree facilitates after-hours at doctor’s office OnPage and Cisco Tropo bilingual capabilities Back in February of this year, OnPage announced its integration with Cisco’s Tropo technology. Tropo’s cloud-based API platform enables OnPage to embed real-time communications within the OnPage critical alerting application through the use of voice commands. Tropo makes it simple for OnPage’s … Continued
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Bringing Dev and Ops together with on-call groups
Make Dev and Ops better together by building empathy with on-call groups Create Effective Schedules Much has been written on the tension that often exists between Dev and Ops teams in an organization. All too frequently, Devs are focused on rapid prototyping and creating code while Ops are focused on keeping the ship stable and making as few … Continued
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Why Pagers Suck!
HIPAA Violations are only the beginning If you’re a healthcare professional you probably use pagers to communicate with your office and with others in your practice. But did you know that using a pager could cost your office $650K for a HIPAA violation? That seems like a lot of money to spend for the liberty … Continued
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7 Ways DevOps Can Avoid Alert Fatigue
Being on-call doesn’t have to mean you’re always tired The introduction of monitoring into the DevOps world means alerts will occur 24/7. As such, there will be alert fatigue in DevOps. Monitoring needs alerts in order to be effective but the issue is that while our technology is 24/7, humans cannot work in a similar … Continued
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Critical Alerts Without a Data Package
When the Wi-Fi magical garden is gone and the message must get through Most of us don’t even think twice about internet connectivity. We get it at work or Starbucks or at home. It’s one of those low-cost goods in our society which can be produced in vast quantities as needed with minimal effort. And … Continued
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