Opsani Blog
Continuous Optimization & Autonomous Operations, tips to increase performance of cloud applications, DevOps and Machine Learning industry articles, lessons learned and more.
Happy New Year!
Happy 2019! Thanks to our customers, partners, investors and employees 2018 was wonderful year for Opsani. We wish all of you a happy, healthy, prosperous and joy filled...
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Happy Holidays from the Opsani Team!
All of us on the Opsani team with you and your families the best of Holidays!
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Kubecon 2018 Seattle Wrap Up
Kubecon 2018 Seattle was a great success We had a great week at kubecon and I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on work and assess what we learned. First and foremost, the Kubernetes community is vibrant and growing. We had hundreds of wonderful conversations with...
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What’s Next: Continuous Optimization
You may not have heard of Opsani, but their launch of Optune at KubeCon this week is a big deal, and if you build software that runs in the cloud, you should be paying attention. At Zetta, we invest in early stage, AI-first startups with B2B business models. We spend...
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The Cloud App Optimization Paradox
Ask anyone how fast they want their app to run and they’ll say as quickly as possible. Ask how much they want to spend per transaction and they’ll say as little as possible. Ask how often they optimize resource allocation and parameter settings and they’ll say they...
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Forgotten Settings Can Boost App Performance
Hundreds of parameters in Linux, various pieces of middleware and even your cloud platform affect the performance of your applications. Unfortunately, if you’re like most people, you’ve either forgotten or never knew about most of them. As a result, they’re left at...
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I Can’t Open My AWS Bill
Like all startups, we spend a LOT of time talking to potential customers, trying to understand their pain points around infrastructure provisioning, spend and performance. He can’t open his AWS bill because the file is too large for his laptop to handle Many of our...
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The Seductively Simple Metric To Avoid When Tuning Apps on AWS
A quick search online will find lots of tools that examine your AWS logs or bills and provide a list of vm’s with low utilization. The idea, of course, is if you reduce the vm size or even delete them you’ll save money. Increasing utilization is a...
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Happy New Year from the team at Opsani!
It's been an exciting year for our team at Opsani with the launch of Skopos to kick off our Intent Based Operations vision. We wanted to thank our customers, partners and investors for their tremendous support as we look forward to another great year...
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We’re Now Opsani!
That’s right, we’re changing our name. If you’re reading this, I know you’re wondering what it means. Opsani derives from the Slavic root for "description" which speaks to our vision of declarative systems for modern management. When we started Datagrid a...
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Ops in the Era of DevOps
Spend a little bit of time reading about DevOps and you’ll no doubt discover the term NoOps. That’s right, the idea that eventually we’ll have “no Ops” seems to be attractive to some Dev folks. At the same time though it’s easy to find posts from DevOps managers...
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We’re at it again . . .
Why do another startup? Why put in all the hours? Why go without pay for long periods?Frankly, we're not done. A decade after rolling out the first cloud platform (yes, AppLogic predated EC2), a lot of the changes we'd hoped to enable with cloud still remain elusive....
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