DevOps Exchange Meetup (April 14) – Micro-Services for DevOps
Last week we organized our second DevOps Exchange meetup which we sponsored alongside StackExchange, who also hosted the event at their shiny new London offices near Old Street. Since our first meetup...
View ArticleOur First Public Preview @ Monitorama 2014
Last week we made a trip to Portland, OR in the USA to attend Monitorama 2014. For those of you who’ve never heard of it before, it is a conference run in the USA and Europe dedicated to monitoring. So...
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (May 14) – Deployment with Containers
Last week we hosted our 3rd monthly DevOps Exchange meetup, #DOXLON. This time the talks were held at the Microsoft auditorium at Central Working Whitechapel. We had huge interest in this meetup, with...
View ArticleJohn Powell Joins Dataloop.IO’s Board
At Dataloop.IO, our vision is to build a great company that has the potential to be a leader in our space. We spent a lot of time doing customer development before we launched our start-up 8 months ago...
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (June14) – DevOps Show and Tell
It’s that time again, here are the videos and slides from DevOps Exchange London last week! The Meetup featured some fantastic talks ranging from docker networking, to building a high performance time...
View ArticleWhy Adoption Outside Operations for Monitoring is Important
In my Monitorama Pitch in May, I focused on one of the core problems we see with today’s monitoring tools – Adoption. When I talked about Adoption, we weren’t talking about adoption of the monitoring...
View ArticleNew Feature: JSON Format Check Scripts
Our agent runs Nagios check scripts in any language, and Nagios check scripts are great if you want to easily send service status and performance metrics back to your monitoring service, but what if...
View ArticleIFTTT (If this then that) for DevOps
When we started Dataloop.IO about 8 months ago it was clear that there was room for innovation in the monitoring space. The de-facto tools in use by most companies were written over a decade ago and...
View Article7 Ways to Get Adoption of Your Monitoring Tool
As I discussed in my last post, we believe that monitoring, like many other DevOps tools, needs to be adopted by other teams (i.e. developers, product managers, support, QA etc.) outside Operations....
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (July14) – Continuous Delivery
After yet another fantastic #DOXLON Meetup last week, its that time again for the round up videos and slides! This time around, we were kindly hosted by Moonfruit, in their amazing oxford circus...
View ArticleRackspace Breakfast Panel Debate
This morning Steven was invited to be part of Rackspace’s Breakfast Panel Debate where he sat alongside some of our DevOps friends some of whom have spoken at our DevOps Exchange meetups previously...
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (Aug14) – High Scalability
Its that time of month when DevOps Exchange London has been and gone again. After yet another great event we have the slides and videos up for those who wish to relive it or simply didn’t make it! We...
View ArticleDataloop.IO Secures $800k (£480k) Investment from Forward Partners
London, UK – September 29, 2014 – Dataloop.IO, a London start-up providing infrastructure monitoring software for online services, has closed an early seed round of $800k (£480k). The round was led by...
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (Sept14) – Containers and Platforms
Last week we held the biggest DevOps Exchange London event yet, over 300 people attended on the night, and we’d like to thank our friends at Linux Recruit and AWS for their help! With talks on...
View ArticleWhy We Chose Dataloop.IO for Hive Home – Grant Smith
This is a guest post by Grant Smith, author of Next Gen DevOps and former Head of Operations at British Gas’s Hive Home service, a Dataloop.IO customer. Grant shares his rationale on why they chose...
View ArticleOur first birthday – One Year On
Today is our first birthday! Exactly one year today, we incorporated Dataloop.IO, and began our journey to create the worlds best monitoring solution for Online Services. I thought I’d take a look at...
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (Oct14) – Lies, Damn Lies and Operational Metrics
Every month, DevOps Exchange gets bigger and better. We’ve been officially London’s largest DevOps meetup for a while now, and are very close to being the worlds largest outside the US! With scale...
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (Dec14) – Battle of the Configuration Management tools
After only 9 meetups since we started DevOps Exchange London back in February, we are proud to announce we have grown to become THE WORLDS largest DevOps Meetup with over 1,650 members and between...
View ArticleMonitoring for Micro-Services
At Dataloop.IO, one of the key trends we’re seeing in the monitoring space, is Micro-Services. Although Micro-Services tends to be adopted when an online service gets to scale, we’ve also seen smaller...
View Article#DOXLON DevOps Exchange (Feb 15) – Software Defined Infrastructure
We kicked off the worlds largest DevOps meetup in 2015 with over 300 attendees, making this our largest meetup yet! This month we decided to focus on Software Defined Infrastructure. There are lots of...
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