Tag Archives: DevOps

Send Metrics Not Logs

This is part of a series on observability, a concept taking hold in modern software engineering. One of the interesting things I saw in an engineering presentation on Observability from Chik-Fil-A was that they are sometimes bandwidth-constrained at remote sites. … Continue reading

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DevOps Days Minneapolis–Best Practices for Database Deployments

Thanks to everyone who attended, though with one stage I had a fairly captive audience. I enjoyed the event and look forward to coming back to the Twin Cities in the future. A few nice questions, which I’ll address in … Continue reading

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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024–Resources

For my talk at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024, here are the resources. Slides: Architecting Zero Downtime.pptx GitHub: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime If you have questions, reach out.

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Set a Runtime Variable in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Note: I DO NOT recommend this. Any changes to a pipeline should be in code and through a PR. That being said, I know this information is out there and some people need it. The question from a friend was … Continue reading

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