Just One More Metric

The Fear of Saying No

For a startup or a small biz in its infancy, every opportunity looks like a pot of gold.

Running a Small Business is…

For more than a year I’ve worked (with an awesome team) on taking Travis CI from an continuous integration platform for open source projects into a small business with a profitable product.

A Short Story on Human Error

A few weeks back I came across a post that struck home in several ways. “How I Fired myself” (cached version) is a short story of a developer who accidentally deleted the entire users table in production while working on a new feature. You should read the whole thing, go ahead, I’ll wait for you.

Monitoring for Humans

Hi, I’m Mathias, and I’m a developer. Other than a lot of you at this conference, I’m far from being a monitoring expert. If anything, I’m a user, a tinkerer of all the great tools we’re hearing about at this conference.