John Laban

@patrickdebois Founder of @OpsLevelHQ here - we saw so many teams doing this with xls and wiki pages years ago, and built OpsLevel to answer all the above questions and more (and to automate as much as possible.) Happy to give you a demo if you like.

Beyond xls , what tool do people use to track services that teams provide? Backstage has potential but seems very api oriented. Any other suggestions? To track ex. who owns it, service levels , architecture docs, support , faq, procedures, what it depends on, who uses it …

@klprose @OpsLevelHQ @rvretenar

Today is Hackday at @OpsLevelHQ. @rvretenar (who recently joined our team) came out swinging with some new Slack emojis. Behold: "party-ken"

@jfilipe @OpsLevelHQ Thanks for the kind words Jason - it's been great working with you and your team @theScore!

Great product, even better team. Super excited to see @OpsLevelHQ secure their A round and continue to execute on their vision! techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/ops…

I’m super excited to announce that OpsLevel has raised a $15M Series A, led by Threshold with participation from our investors Vertex Ventures, S28 Capital, WIN, as well as a set of great founders and operating angels. We're building an amazing product and company - come join us!

We're having some shameless ASCII art fun with the @OpsLevelHQ CLI github.com/OpsLevel/cli

Summer’s here, so a lot of the Toronto-based folks had a great (socially distant) picnic! Pizza + Spikeball: a great combo 😎

Running #Kubernetes in production? It's easy to mess up. Our latest blog post by @rocktavious discusses a few #k8s best practices and ways of validating those across your cluster. Check it out 👇 opslevel.com/blog/validatin… #kubernetes #security #reliability

OpsLevel: Service Ownership Platform with John Laban and Kenneth Rose @OpsLevelHQ @johnlaban @klprose softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/01/27/ops…

Adopting microservices? Here's a great writeup of a recent interview I participated in alongside @amiklas from @pagerduty and @jkodumal from @LaunchDarkly.

OpsLevel can help track and surface ownership within your monolith. Except for this one... #utahmonolith #ServiceOwnership #YouBuildItYouOwnIt

Great to have you on the team!

I met @johnlaban nearly 10yrs ago when he was the 1st employee at PagerDuty. Very exited to partner with him & @klprose on OpsLevel. With $5M in the bank and impressive early customers like Segment, Zapier, and Convoy, OpsLevel is here to fix DevOps. techcrunch.com/2020/11/18/ops…

We're taking back DevOps! I'm very excited to share that we've raised $5M at @OpsLevelHQ to bring Service Ownership to everyone. 🎉

@nickhudkins @joelkinzel @StabbyCutyou @OpsLevelHQ (Hey, thanks Nick!) We built OpsLevel to solve exactly this problem. It tracks ownership and everything else you need to own/operate healthy services. I'd be happy to show you how it works - DM me. opslevel.com

@joelkinzel @StabbyCutyou Ok ooo @OpsLevelHQ

@gabor @schrockn Many big companies build internal systems to catalog and help standardize their microservices sprawl. There are products on the market to do this too. opslevel.com/2020/04/21/why…

@schrockn What are the products to clean that up going to look like?

Microservices are such a fundamentally and catastrophically bad idea that there are going to an entire cohort of multi-billion companies built that do nothing but contain the damage that they have wrought.

@schrockn There's a bit of a chicken and egg thing here. As you mentioned, there's a large cohort of multi-billion-$ companies that used a distributed architecture to easily scale their engineering organization. They might have had a much harder time without it. Good problems to have...

@schrockn @abhi_sivasailam Honestly, most "microservices" architectures out there aren't truly micro. I've interviewed dozens of big companies about their microservices architecture and comparatively few go the route of making them as small as possible - services tend to be on the chubbier side.

@abhi_sivasailam The micro. There are very good reasons to have services, but typically because of hard technical constraints.

@otteradrift @schrockn Shopify did this with their monolith (w/ logical separation between business domains, but all running in a monolith): they call it a Modular Monolith. TBF they also run a number of (micro?)services too, but it definitely reduces the number of those. engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineer…

@schrockn I like the logical separation of concerns between business subdomains. Would you say that is valuable? i.e. the problem with microservices is the insistence on independently deployed services (and all the comms baggage that implies), rather than the logical split of sub-domains?

@bictolia We created @OpsLevelHQ to help track ownership (of repos, services, etc) in a non invasive way across your organization. I'd be happy to demo it if you're interested.

While various government actions were being assessed for their ability to support tech during COVID-19, commercial rent remained an immediate pressure. It's amazing that @oneeleven_111 + @Siriagrell took immediate action to offer 2 months of rent abatement to tenants!