Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

October 2019

Relationships between Operation and Devlopment Teams

Modern businesses are evolving rapidly with the advent of cloud, CI/CD and microservices. However, there still exists an extensive and obvious divide between principle business stakeholders and developmental teams. Development teams are often unaware of the challenges faced by operations teams and vice-versa. This is where a need for adoption of DevOps principles comes into the picture. DevOps which came into existence as the natural successor to Agile practices in software development.

ChatOps-The future of collaboration

ChatOps is the implementation of chatbots to unify communication and collaboration. Through ChatOps every single member of a team will be aware of what the other members are working on. It is the logical next step in the evolution of communication among teams after email and IM. Projects of today are developed at a global scale with millions of people as potential users, this means that teams are larger and often work in shifts or even remotely.

Post Mortems- Bringing clarity to incident reviews

An incident post mortem is known by many names- incident review, root cause analysis (RCA), learning review, but what do they entail?. A post mortem is a post-incident activity to help organizations understand how the incident happened and to learn from it. Service incidents are an unavoidable hurdle for any company when they do happen, the teams working will be wholly focussed on restoring service as quickly as possible.