Why should you CI/CD?
Simply put, CI/CD allows your organization to move faster and with more confidence. If you want to stay competitive in your market, you need to be able to move quickly and without the fear of service interruption or the introduction of bugs. By automating the validation, packaging, and deployment of your software, you can have a repeatable and reliable pipeline to deliver value to your customers. In addition, having all of these processes automated mean your engineers have more time to work on what matters.
We have a great deal of experience setting up CI/CD pipelines in various system including GitLab, Jenkins, CirclCI, TravisCI, and CodeShip. We can provide implementation assistance and best practice guidance no matter what your tool of choice is.
What is system monitoring?
System monitoring is the practice of instrumenting your applications and infrastructure so that you have visibility into the health of your overall system. This allows you to proactively respond to customer issues, outages, and flaky services. In addition, monitoring data can be crucial when attempting to dynamically scale your infrastructure up and down to coincide with high and low service traffic patterns. You can also keep track of key business metrics (new user signups per day, highest traffic endpoints, purchases per day, etc.) to help guide future discussions and initiatives.
We have a vast amount of experience integrating and configuring monitoring systems into new or existing tech stacks. We have experience with tools such as Grafana, Influxdata, Netdata, New Relic, Prometheus and Sentry.
How can logging help me?
When something goes wrong, the first thing on everyone's mind is "where is the problem and how do we fix it?". By appropriately collecting logs from your applications you can immediately get insight into what is going on in your application, where the problem is, and what patterns are occurring that trigger the error. Without searchable and meaningful logging, your engineer team will be flying blind as they attempt to track and diagnose the error.
We have a great deal of experience integrating and configuring logging solutions into new or existing tech stacks. We have experience with tools such as ELK, EFK, Graylog, and Loki.
