Opsani Blog
Continuous Optimization & Autonomous Operations, tips to increase performance of cloud applications, DevOps and Machine Learning industry articles, lessons learned and more.
ROI In 30 Days – Better Than Free
When DevOps discusses adding new tools to company CI/CD toolchain the costs are usually pretty clear. To get budget approval may include discussing ROI but returns are not always easy to calculate. Measuring the ROI of workflow tools designed for productivity...
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AIOps: The Future of DevOps Is Now
Paradigm shifts often have unanticipated consequences and those consequences can take years to fully understand. Cloud computing is a prime example. Cloud computing ushered in an era of flexible infrastructure and lower capital requirements. Engineers were liberated...
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Five Stages of Performance Optimization Maturity
Increasing capacity and improving performance of Cloud based applications is not a one size fits all problem. Cloud App Optimization requires bespoke solutions for each stage of app maturity and scale and in order to be responsive to the requirements of the...
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Top Reasons Performance Optimization Projects Fail
The wrong combination of resources and application parameters can cripple your app and empty your wallet. Get it right and you can cut costs 30-50% and/or improve performance by 100% or more. All without changing a single line of code.
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Process Succeeds Where Projects Fail
Many people think of CI/CD as simply the automation of build and test using modern API-driven systems. Successful organizations have a more holistic view. They understand that embracing CI/CD means transforming a series of projects your team has to complete for each...
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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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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 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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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 2019!
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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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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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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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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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