Isaac Mosquera

Key SDLC Performance Metrics for VPs of Engineering

Continuous delivery done well is data-driven. Data drives decisions about what to work on and how to work on it, and it tells us whether the changes are working properly and whether things...

Circle CI

Robust CD with Spinnaker & CircleCI

Spinnaker bills itself as a continuous delivery platform for the enterprise. Continuous delivery scopes in many technical practices and tools and begins with continuous integration, which in turn also brings its own practices...

Total Automation with Spinnaker and Ansible

Spinnaker and Ansible often get lumped together as automation tools. Teams can automate deployment workflows with Ansible. Spinnaker also automates deployments, so why use both? People mistakenly think that using one makes use...

Testing Microservices in Production? Canaries Can Help

I recently gave a talk at a Meetup about testing microservices in production, and how canaries can assist harried engineers with this once-stressful process. I also helped author the Microservices for Startups book....

Spinnaker

Keeping developers happy and productive

A common saying is that "People leave managers not companies.” While 50% say that’s true; this post isn’t about that. It’s about keeping the other 50% happy and productive....

Spinnaker

Everyone Talks About It; Few Manage To Do It: Shipping Small Diffs

Podcast with Isaac and Colin from the Armory tribe where Isaac explains “Ship Small Diffs” and what the value surrounding it is: During an on-site visit with a client, I saw “Ship Small...

Feature Flags

Feature Flags vs Canaries

Feature flags and canaries have different objectives despite appearing similar: Feature flags expose a specific feature to a sample set of users and then measures it’s impact. Canaries expose a specific version...

My Pipeline Is Stuck On "Wait For Up Instances"

While executing a pipeline you might have run into this issue when not using an ELB where the pipeline gets stuck on "Wait for Up Instances" Why does this happen? Spinnaker...

Armory: Now, and What's Next

Now: Armory’s Focus & Priorities It’s still early days for both Spinnaker and Armory. After speaking in-depth to developers and engineering leaders at over 137 Global 2,000 enterprises, we found...

AWS S3 Outage and Spinnaker Multi-Region Support

We are reminded again today (Feb 28, 2017) about the fragility of the Internet. S3 is still down in us-east-1 and currently affecting pretty much every known business running on AWS and effectively...

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