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Enough monitoring. Act!
Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the auto-remediation These days StackStorm – and other approaches to auto-remediation and event driven automation more generally – are getting broadly adopted. Everyone from Facebook through Netflix and WebEx (yeah users!) are not just better “managing” their 2am pages (although that’s cool too PagerDuty) – they […]
Oct 7, 2015 · 3 minAll articles by Evan Powell
Showing 1–7AWS Lambda – Useful for DevOps Automation?
One of the highlights of AWS re:Invent, judging by the twitter stream and the points emphasized in Amazon CTO Werner Vogel’s Day 2 keynote and blog post, was the launch of Lambda. In his blog announcing Lambda, Vogel calls the solution “the easiest way to compute in the cloud.” He goes on to describe it […]
DevOps > Cloud, SaaS, SDDC, and apple pie
Over the weekend I was chatting with a really successful venture investor who recently published a top trends list. That made me think about DevOps vs. Cloud and vs. SaaS and vs. Mobile and other disruptors. I’m convinced more than ever than DevOps is the right focus for professional investors and for all of us […]
From Orwellian Nightmares To Unicorns: Why I’m All In On DevOps
Over the years I’ve helped literally thousands of customers gain efficiencies in their data centers. I’ve met and become friendly with a lot of IT pros but I’ve got to admit – I never envied them. Well, maybe I envied some of the views in NY and Jersey City. And some of the toys they […]
User pragmatism is stronger than ever
This is the third of a series of posts about why we thought the world needed another DevOps oriented company and so invested in and started StackStorm. I hope we are touching on general themes that can help others understand the rapid disruptive shift towards DevOps approaches to building and operating technology. When starting […]
Let’s keep the countdown going: Reason #2 for StackStorm to join the fray
Stackstorm is a new company focused on automation, operations and DevOps. It’s co-founder and CEO Evan Powell has been keeping a running journal as the company made ready to emerge from stealth. This is the 2nd in the series of posts from Powell’s thoughts and experiences as a new DevOps company comes to market.f In […]
Automation, Operations, DevOps – What We Thought Was Missing
Stackstorm is a new company focused on automation, operations and DevOps. It’s co-founder and CEO Evan Powell has been keeping a running journal as the company made ready to emerge from stealth. Over the next few days we will share Powell’s thoughts and experiences as a new DevOps company comes to market. Over the next […]