Systematic rolls out code at a furious pace

Systematic is using a new method to automate operation, deployment and monitoring or, as the team puts it, “laying the rails while there is steam on the locomotive".

Systematic is featured in a sponsored post about Site Realiability Engineering at Computerworld.dkSite Reliability Engineering is about putting developers in charge of solving operational tasks. As a rule, the goal is fully automated monitoring or rollout of updates on a system that is in operation.

“The SRE team solves tasks across of different systems and languages by combining software development with solving very specific operational tasks and can see the result of our work immediately. You could say that we lay the rails while there is steam on the locomotive”, explains Jesper Skelmose Mathiassen.

Often, developers and operators only hear about problems when core functions in a system stop working. One example is if citizens across the country suddenly cannot borrow books from libraries. If, on the other hand, you use SRE as a starting point for incorporating targeted monitoring, you - with real-time metrics in hand - quickly become aware if book lending suddenly starts to take a little longer than usual. It provides a basis for targeting analysis and error correction in a timely manner.

The full article can be read here in Danish