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niall

3-Minute Read

What does it mean to deliver a service? Where does it’s value live? And, even if we know the answers, what do we actually practice in real life?

niall

1-Minute Read

This is the home of the various salt stack errors and quirks that I come across, just a nice little bucket of frustrations so that I have a quick reference page that is not based on human memory 🙂

niall

4-Minute Read

In the field of modern cloud operations, multiple services continuously run on many different platforms, across a broad spectrum or hardware, network, and software environments. Broadly, they can be briefly summarised as having the following properties,

niall

2-Minute Read

Currently I’m using the logging setup of Beaver shipping logs into an ELK stack, and metrics with collectd shipping metrics into a Graphite stack. Now that Elastic have Beats that do both logging and metrics, its worth exploring further.

niall

6-Minute Read

Just as you start off on a Monday morning, at 9:01am, there’s a page, that crucial, heavily used site is broken, users are blocked from working and frustrated. What went wrong?

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