Anthony HobbsA tale of two SaaS support modelsThe decision of how you are going to support your SaaS applications a few years down the line is often overlooked when people are building…Dec 27, 2019Dec 27, 2019
Anthony HobbsHybrid cloud is the path, not the goalI frequently work with companies that grew up in data centers and want to develop a hybrid cloud solution so they can eventually migrate…Feb 19, 2019Feb 19, 2019
Anthony HobbsIs your database too big to fail?DevOps is all about automation, and CodeOps is taking that automation to it’s extreme. The hard part that makes extreme automation all work…Aug 18, 2018Aug 18, 2018
Anthony HobbsImproving on PagerDuty API for Slack notificationsRecently, I was creating a Git2PagerDuty utility and ran into an interesting workflow issue around Slack integrations. When we page a team…Aug 18, 2018Aug 18, 2018
Anthony HobbsWhat comes after DevOps?If you ask 10 DevOps professionals “What is DevOps?”, you are likely to get 20 different answers. After many debates I have come to the…Aug 4, 20181Aug 4, 20181
Anthony HobbsThe Sith Lord school of system administration on RCAsI teach the Sith Lord methods of system administration. If a server or service fails me, I allow it one chance to redeem itself (enact…Jul 28, 2018Jul 28, 2018
Anthony HobbsAWS autoscaling pro tipsThis is a short list of hard-learned lessons when working with Amazon Web Services auto scaling groups in production.Jul 21, 2018Jul 21, 2018
Anthony HobbsThe impenetrable bastion serverThe most secure systems are the ones that have the least access. The theoretical best way to do that is to have no access at all. While…Jul 21, 2018Jul 21, 2018
Anthony HobbsMoving from failure based alerts to success basedThere are an infinite number of things that can go wrong with your site and Murphy knows this. Standard server monitoring practice is to…Oct 10, 2015Oct 10, 2015
Anthony HobbsProject SlingshotAt Amazon Re-Invent 2015, Intuit hosted a breakout session featuring my brainchild project Slingshot. The project is about automating…Oct 10, 2015Oct 10, 2015
