I recently broke down and purchased an Amazon Echo after hearing enough good things about it, and also seeing how straightforward it looked to develop for it. It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Datadog, so naturally I felt like I needed to mix the two. I've previously covered exposing Datadog metrics through Hubot, so I figured I'd try to do something similar for the Echo. I decided to create and host the skill…

In case you haven't noticed, I've been rambling a lot lately on the topic of app monitoring and instrumentation, including a visit to Jesse Liberty's podcast as well as my session at Xamarin Evolve. For whatever reason I've been allowed to keep rambling about it since then, so I have some more links to share! dotnetConf I was invited to speak at dotnetConf, which was an awesome virtual conference involving many great folks from Microsoft in…

Last week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at my third Xamarin Evolve, and as always it was a great time. Video from my session is now available to watch: The slides are also available here, though you lose out on the critical animations: All of the code, including everything from the sample app to the Hubot instance, is available on GitHub.…

I had the pleasure of guesting on my friend Jesse Liberty's podcast again yesterday, where he allowed me to ramble on about instrumenting and monitoring apps and give a bit of a sneak preview of what we're doing at Olo and what I'll be speaking about at Evolve. Check it out!…

As part of my continued mission to add instrumentation and monitoring into basically everything, Datadog is a tool that I've come to really love. In addition to the built-in metrics it can record, such as things like CPU usage, the real power comes in being able to easily define your own metrics and create meaningful visualizations of the true running state of your systems. At Olo we run a Hubot instance that connects to our Slack…