Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

PagerDuty RunDeck: Getting Started

Published Dec 21, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Rundeck is a popular runbook automation suite that was acquired by Pagerduty last year to incorporate into their larger monitoring and automation offerings.

Github Projects, Issues and Datadog Integration

Published Dec 15, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Now that we have a live production workflow in Github Actions, we should explore Github Issues for Issue and Feature tracking. Can we use Github as a sufficient replacement for Azure DevOps?

Github Actions and Workflows: Part 2

Published Dec 7, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In our first post we explored the usage of Github actions and how we might use our own Github runners. The workflow that we created was just a simple hello-world example flow. This time let’s di...

Github Actions and Workflows

Published Dec 1, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Github Actions allow us to run Workflows to automate our work. The Actions model is very similar to Azure DevOps Pipelines in that we have Workflows (Pipelines) with Runners (Agents) that execute J...

Newrelic: Part 2 (Comparing NR, DD, and ALM)

Published Nov 24, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

In the last article we dug into New Relic for Kubernetes cluster monitoring and automatic APM via Pixie.

Newrelic: Part 1

Published Nov 17, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

New Relic is a performance monitoring and logging tool that has been around since 2008 when it was founded by Lew Cirne (the company is an anagram of his name).He remained CEO until July of this ye...