Eric Hexter on DevOps Diagnostics - Episode 011

Eric Hexter on DevOps Diagnostics - Episode 011

In today’s episode, Jeffrey is joined by Eric Hexter, the Chief Technology Officer of Quarterspot LASO a fintech company that produces lending platforms using machine learning. He built the company in the Cloud with DevOps as a foundational component of delivering the product. Eric has filled roles as CTO, Chief Architect, Developer, and Consultant. He’s spent most of his career working with web technologies, with a total of twenty years experience producing technology solutions that deliver business value.

As Jeffrey says, Eric is the DevOps King. He’s done some incredible work over the past decade and a half and has even written some books well, namely one book back in 2012, ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action, co-authored by Jeffrey as well.

Eric and Jeffrey talk all about DevOps Diagnostics today, running through the various categories within it, such as: system metrics, log files, air conditions, heartbeats, and data integrity checks. Eric also gives his recommendations to those new and experienced with the system tools, resources, and services.

Topics of Discussion:

[:47] About today’s guest, Eric Hexter.

[1:19] Jeffrey welcomes Eric to the podcast.

[2:28] How Eric first got interested in the world of DevOps.

[4:01] Eric talks about some of the key points made from his presentation on the Azure DevOps User Group on Meetup.

[6:46] What Cloud DevOps diagnostics consist of.

[8:10] What categories .NET developers need to be watching in order to operate their systems effectively.

[9:08] Eric talks about one of these categories: his favorite system metrics.

[12:15] Eric gives a quick rundown on queue-based processing.

[14:23] Eric’s favorite queue at the moment.

[15:21] The importance of having metrics on every running piece of your application.

[18:23] A word from Azure DevOps sponsor: Clear Measure.

[18:52] How Eric looks at system metrics.

[20:06] On Eric’s team, who looks at the metrics?

[20:34] Eric gives an explanation of the next category of Cloud DevOps diagnostics: log files.

[22:32] What Eric recommends developers should be logging to a text file.

[23:33] Eric explains what a decorator pattern looks like in code.

[24:42] Eric briefly explains built-in log files.

[25:03] How Eric brings all these log files together to cohesively view them all.

[26:31] How does Eric log files?

[27:30] Why logging as a first class feature within the application can be incredibly useful.

[29:14] The next category of Cloud DevOps diagnostics: air conditions and common patterns within it.

[38:13] The next category: heartbeats.

[42:00] Eric dives into the next diagnostics category: data integrity checks.

[44:04] The differences in structured logging compared to regular logging.

[48:46] For structured logging, does Eric have a favorite library?

[50:41] Eric’s recommendations tools and services to get started in all of this.

[53:06] Eric’s advice on how to consolidate all your flat files to start a consistent view.

[54:16] Eric’s favorite heartbeat source.

[55:00] Additional resources Eric recommends listeners to go check out after this week’s episode.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Quarterspot

ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action, by Eric Hexter, Jeffrey Palermo, Jimmy Bogard, Matthew Hinze, and Jeremy Skinner

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps User Group on Meetup

PREMIS
Azure Storage

New Relic

Stackify

Application Insights

Azure Queue Storage

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

Grafana

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The Netflix Tech Blog

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Follow Up with Our Guest:

Eric Hexter’s LinkedIn

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Sam Guckenheimer on Testing, Data Collection, and the State of DevOps Report - Episode 003

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Donovan Brown on How to Use Azure DevOps Services - Episode 002

Donovan Brown on How to Use Azure DevOps Services - Episode 002

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Buck Hodges on the introduction to Azure DevOps Services - Episode 001

Buck Hodges on the introduction to Azure DevOps Services - Episode 001

Welcome to the first edition of The Azure DevOps Podcast! Your host, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by guest, Buck Hodges, to announce the global release of Azure DevOps Services. Buck is the Director of Engineering for the Azure DevOps product group and has been at Microsoft for over 15 years.   Azure DevOps Services (previously known as Visual Studio Team Services) aims to help developers ship faster. With Azure DevOps Services comes a full set of services that you can use separately, with other non-Microsoft services, or together as a suite.   In this episode, Jeffrey and Buck dive into all the key differences that come along with the rebranding and new services. Buck also gives a rundown of the system (from how it’s organized to how to mix and match with other devops tools on the market) and many of the new, exciting features available for developers.   Episode Sponsor: Clear Measure is a software engineering firm and Microsoft Gold Partner empowering development teams to be their best. Clear Measure equips developers with the devops tools, methods, and automation necessary to focus on building their applications rather than wrestling with builds, deployments, or environments. Click clear-measure.com to see whether a devops implementation is right for you.   Topics of Discussion: [:30] About today’s topic and guest. [1:00] Buck Hodges announces the new Azure DevOps Services. [2:44] Buck’s background in DevOps and career progression at Microsoft. [10:00] Key differences with the rebranding to Azure DevOps, and its 5 main services: Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Repose, and Test Plans. [14:49] Can Jira (and other similar softwares) users adopt Azure DevOps? [16:48] About Microsoft’s commitment to open source and giving back by offering free use of Azure DevOps to run free builds for open source projects. [20:02] About the ease of getting started with Azure Pipelines through the GitHub Marketplace, and some of the big users with Pipelines. [20:49] A word from Azure DevOps sponsor: Clear Measure. [21:19] About the internal transformation of the Azure DevOps team and what it looks like today. [24:04] How many developers are part of Buck’s organization? [24:54] Buck gives a rundown of the system (how it’s organized, how many team projects, how many Git repositories, how many independent services, etc.) [28:58] Do they build all the services together in the same Git repository or do they split them into different build configurations? [32:45] What’s coming next for Azure DevOps? [36:34] Buck addresses some general misconceptions. [40:00] When will customers be able to get their hands on the new Azure DevOps 2019 server? [41:30] Where to learn more or get started with Azure DevOps.   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps VSTS Azure Pipelines Azure Boards Azure Artifacts Azure Repose Azure Test Plans Team Foundation Server (TFS) Jira GitHub Visual Studio Code TypeScript Dev.Azure.com   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes   Follow Up with Our Guest: Posts by Buck Hodges on Microsoft Azure Buck Hodges’ LinkedIn

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