Let me share some ops lessons learneds we've developed: Monitoring - CloudWatch with custom metrics. Alerting - custom Slack integration. Documentatio...
Playing devil's advocate here on the team structure. In our environment, we found that Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation worked better because do...
Great points overall! One aspect I'd add is team dynamics. We learned this the hard way when integration with existing tools was smoother than anticip...
Playing devil's advocate here on the tooling choice. In our environment, we found that Datadog, PagerDuty, and Slack worked better because automation ...
Great writeup! That said, I have some concerns on the team structure. In our environment, we found that Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana worked bett...
Solid analysis! From our perspective, team dynamics. We learned this the hard way when we had to iterate several times before finding the right balanc...
This helps! Our team is evaluating this approach. Could you elaborate on team structure? Specifically, I'm curious about stakeholder communication. Al...
We experienced the same thing! Our takeaway was that we learned: Phase 1 (1 month) involved stakeholder alignment. Phase 2 (1 month) focused on pilot ...
Appreciated! We're in the process of evaluating this approach. Could you elaborate on success metrics? Specifically, I'm curious about stakeholder com...
Cool take! Our approach was a bit different using Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana. The main reason was automation should augment human decision-mak...
Our experience from start to finish with this. We started about 11 months ago with a small pilot. Initial challenges included team training. The break...
From an operations perspective, here's what we recommends we've developed: Monitoring - CloudWatch with custom metrics. Alerting - PagerDuty with inte...
Here's what worked well for us: 1) Document as you go 2) Use feature flags 3) Practice incident response 4) Measure what matters. Common mistakes to a...
Great post! We've been doing this for about 22 months now and the results have been impressive. Our main learning was that documentation debt is as da...