Articles

January 3, 2023

Megan Dorcey

That's a wrap: Looking back on 2022

The OpsLevel team, business, and product have grown tremendously over the last year. We share some of the wins and learnings, as well as a sneak peek at what the new year will look like.

All The Ways to Work with Data in OpsLevel

July 11, 2022

Matthew Brahms

All The Ways to Work with Data in OpsLevel

Lets review the ways you can ingest and manipulate data in OpsLevel. Whether you are new to OpsLevel, or a wily veteran, you’re certain to learn something along the way!

Redesign Your Engineering Org for Efficiency

June 27, 2022

John Laban

Redesign Your Engineering Org for Efficiency

Across most industries this year, leaders in all functions are working through difficult prioritization and budget justification exercises. Spending that was previously approved with minimal scrutiny is now being put under the microscope by finance and procurement teams. Software engineering organizations aren’t exempt from these intense audits, but development teams still have products to ship and expectations to meet. Now they’re attempting to pull it off with more limited resources.

May 2, 2022

Matthew Brahms

An SRE's Perspective on Backstage

Open source developer portal project Backstage hasn’t been on the scene for long. But in that time it has gained popularity quickly. The rate at which it’s added stars on GitHub is telling.

Accelerate Developer Teams with Platform Engineering

November 5, 2021

Sylvia Fronczak

Accelerate Developer Teams with Platform Engineering

Engineering organizations often look for ways to improve their engineering teams’ efficiency. The more efficient the team, the faster they can ship new features and products to their customer base. From this need for efficiency, combined with developer empathy, we’ve seen the rise of DevOps and site reliability engineering across the industry.

Functional Teams Drive Service Ownership–Not HR Org Charts

June 21, 2021

Andrew Connolly

Functional Teams Drive Service Ownership–Not HR Org Charts

Enabling Service Ownership is our north star at OpsLevel. We believe that true service ownership is the future of DevOps and a key to building agile, efficient engineering teams. As a part of making service ownership a reality, we’ve recognized that teams own services, not people. But of course, when you need to get something done urgently, you want to talk to a person, not a team. That’s why OpsLevel now supports tracking functional team membership alongside core service metadata.

Get to Five Nines with a Microservice Catalog

June 14, 2021

John Laban

Get to Five Nines with a Microservice Catalog

More software, more problems? Software is eating the world and that means more people and teams are developing software. To stay current and competitive, modern organizations are scaling their software engineering teams.

Why Is DevOps Important? A Philosophical Look for 2021

June 9, 2021

Jonathan Hall

Why Is DevOps Important? A Philosophical Look for 2021

The term “DevOps” entered the IT industry in 2009 with the first DevOpsDays event held in Ghent, Belgium. But the world is constantly changing. Since 2009, the IT space has shifted dramatically. Containers, microservices, and “serverless” computing have all taken the world by storm in the last decade. The term “DevOps” has also undergone a sort of transformation, though OpsLevel is bringing it back to its roots of Service Ownership.