CliffinStartup GrindOn Surfing and StartupsImagine two surfers, equidistant from shore. One is on the wrong side of the breakwater, where the waves have been quieted, their energy…Jun 5, 20172Jun 5, 20172
CliffinThe Opsee BlogShutting DownI’m sad to say that we’ll be shutting down the Opsee service come the end of the month. I’d like to start out by thanking all of our…Aug 28, 20161Aug 28, 20161
CliffinThe Opsee BlogOpsee EverywhereToday I’m very proud to announce the launch of Opsee’s global health checking capability. Global health checks will be run from our network…Jun 28, 2016Jun 28, 2016
CliffinThe Opsee BlogDevOps Is UndeadThe technology world moves fast, and as disciplines get disrupted we are often exhorted to consider them as dead. The most recent example…May 18, 20161May 18, 20161
CliffinThe Opsee BlogWhat Dwarf Fortress Taught Me About StartupsDwarf Fortress, ostensibly a computer game, is perhaps one of my favorite examples of weirdware. By default the game is difficult…Apr 18, 20162Apr 18, 20162
CliffinThe Opsee BlogRound-trip Time Assertions on HTTP ChecksWe’re excited to be rolling out RTT (round-trip time) metrics for HTTP health checks. We’re including RTT as extra metadata on every…Apr 15, 2016Apr 15, 2016
CliffinThe Opsee BlogLaunching Our Public BetaIt’s been a little over a year since we started Opsee. We knew that the changing landscape of code, the adoption of the cloud and…Mar 30, 2016Mar 30, 2016
CliffinThe Opsee BlogDr. StrangecloudYou’re in an architecture review meeting. The whole engineering team is here, and various sub-teams are presenting their plans for the next…Feb 29, 2016Feb 29, 2016