Questions tagged [systems]

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How to model Man, Machine, Measures, and Process in a DevOps world?

In The Phoenix Project when on one of the tours of the plant we're told that each workstation is a combination of Person, Machine, Measurement, and Process. This makes a lot of sense, after all we have people, servers, KPIs, and…
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How to measure human utilisation?

In The Phoenix Project the single graph in the entire book shows that as a person's workload increases into the high 90%s the wait time on them increases exponentially. In fact in the book it claims that: Wait Time = (Percentage Busy/Percentage…
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tools to gather variant information from thousands of servers and update into database

Recently, I use ansible to gather information periodically from thousands of servers(which already installed collectd to gather CPU, memory, disks, netowrking info) in our company. For example: I need to get those information daily kernel…
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1 second system engineering work cycles: educated workflow setup for Docker-driven development

Maybe the whole setup is wrong but imagine your task is to model a system, or set of systems using Docker, where exact system configuraton can be tricky. The workflow resulting from it seems like series of making small changes, waiting to analysing…
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System test frameworks for scale testing on physical and virtual systems

I'm searching for a framework for running system tests. The requirement are: Able to manage provisioning to multiple physical machine Able to manage provisioning to multiple virtual environments (AWS, Azure, etc) Able to run tests on a given…
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