Author Archives: Toufic Boubez

Beyond The Pretty Charts – A Report From #devopsdays in Austin

It’s been a great day at DevOps Days (#devopsdays) in Austin so far. The afternoon was devoted to the Open Space concept, and that was pretty cool. You go up on stage, propose a topic for discussion, pick a time … Continue reading

Everything You Should Know About Anomaly Detection Step 1: The Basics. Know your data – Parametric or Non-parametric?

Last week I flew back from Monitorama (and boy, are my arms tired)! It was so much more than a traditional conference so thank you Jason for managing a great get-together! One thing that struck me after having discussions with … Continue reading

Application Trumps Hardware

How things have changed! Throughout today’s data centers, server farms and development groups, hardware is out and applications are in. You don’t have to be a DevOps proponent to acknowledge that infrastructure matters less these days than what’s running on it. For … Continue reading

Kelcey Damage, Infrastructure Systems Architect

“Now I spend 4-5x less time on drift than I did before implementing Metafor Software. Metafor’s anomaly monitoring is a massive time saver.”

Jeremy Hutchings, Technical Director

“We could have saved a week of work if we had discovered Metafor earlier. They verify the state of our servers so we can see what is actually deployed, not just what we think has been deployed.”