Slow is the New Down
No longer should your greatest fear be your system going down. (Though with IT downtime costing companies an average of $5,600 a minute, you should still be very afraid of that.) Instead, your biggest fear should be your applications slowing to the point of user frustration. Slow is the new down.
CI/CD + Test Automation for the Hackathon Win
I have been writing code professionally for over a decade so when I get the chance to build something that is not work related, I feel a childish glee. This chance comes at least once a year, when I participate in HackMidwest, Kansas City’s largest hackathon. HackMidwest is a 24-hour hackathon where teams are encouraged […]
An Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
If your business is competitive and growing, chances are you have a mission critical software application running inside your data center or in the cloud. Since your application is mission critical, when it goes down, you’re losing money and possibly losing clients. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a discipline focused on maximizing the performance, reliability, […]
