The Achilles Heel of the API
I’ve been developing yet more automation recently, and I’ve been hitting two major stumbling blocks that have had a negative impact on my ability to complete the tooling. API Documentation When APIs were first made […]
Automation
Orange Matter: Why Your Infrastructure Sucks For Automation
I’ve been blogging for Solarwinds recently, posting on Orange Matter, with a cross-post to the Thwack Geek Speak forum. Let’s face it, unless we get to build an infrastructure from the ground up, our existing […]
Orange Matter: All I Want For Christmas is RESTCONF
I’ve been blogging for Solarwinds recently, posting on Orange Matter, with a cross-post to the Thwack Geek Speak forum. I need clear commands, structured response data and simple access to it all; so how about […]
Orange Matter: Automating the Automators
I’ve been blogging for Solarwinds recently, posting on Orange Matter, with a cross-post to the Thwack Geek Speak forum. APIs are critical to operating infrastructure programmatically, but ultimately we need to add one or more […]
Orange Matter: Silo-Busting and Dream-Dashing
I’ve been blogging for Solarwinds recently, posting on Orange Matter, with a cross-post to the Thwack Geek Speak forum. I love automation, but it seems that dreams of a smooth customer experience can be destroyed […]
Orange Matter: Automation Paralysis
I’ve been blogging for Solarwinds recently, posting on Orange Matter, with a cross-post to the Thwack Geek Speak forum. This post examines how it’s easy to get so focused on automating the small stuff we […]