Category: DevOps

Product updates and thoughts from the team behind Transposit

The State of DevOps Automation 2022 Report: Adoption of SRE & Automation Soar, but Collaboration and Human Data Capture Remain Highly Manual

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

Digital transformation initiatives and hybrid work models have increased complexity, placing the burden on humans to collaborate in a new way and tackle manual toil.

May 24th, 2022

Celebrate National DevOps Day

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

Celebrating the powerful partnerships that bring Dev and Ops together — to collaborate, to innovate, and to create amazing customer experiences.

May 24th, 2022

3 TED Talks That Will Help Your DevOps Team Handle Failure like an Expert

Laurel Frazier

Re-examining your team’s relationship with failure is the key to successfully managing complex systems

Apr 20th, 2022

Building Better Products with Continuous Testing

Paul Jones

The why, where, and how of testing throughout the SDLC

Apr 14th, 2022

6 Strategies for Releasing Efficient REST APIs

Geertjan Wielenga

A hands-on look at some key strategies for releasing effective and efficient REST API implementations

Apr 6th, 2022

#APIs #tutorial

How to Automate API Testing: A Tutorial

Kristian Meier

Automated testing principles support developers in quickly bringing reliable, resilient apps to production with minimal maintenance afterward

Mar 23rd, 2022

#APIs #tutorial

DevOps Orchestration: Spectrum of Automation

Taylor Barnett

How to orchestrate complex systems with automation

Mar 16th, 2022

Building Your Own RESTful API: A Guide

Geertjan Wielenga

A hands-on tutorial on how to build your own RESTful API with OpenAPI in Node.js

Mar 9th, 2022

5 Best Practices for Creating Webhooks

Nina Yang
Solutions Architect

Tips for ensuring your webhooks are secure and efficient

Feb 24th, 2022

Getting Started: Creating and Running a Runbook

Geertjan Wielenga

Transposit runbooks bring documentation and automation together, enabling teams to incrementally automate processes, with humans in the loop

Feb 17th, 2022

How to Create a Runbook: A Template for DevOps Teams

Hugh Brien

A guide to creating and enabling operational efficiency through runbooks and automation

Feb 16th, 2022

Runbooks, Playbooks, & SOPs — What’s the Difference?

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

While each type of documentation helps minimize operating time by enabling efficiency and streamlining workflows and processes, there are key differences to be aware of

Feb 15th, 2022

Preparing for Your Super Bowl: A Guide for DevOps Teams to Get Ahead of Failure

Laurel Frazier

Develop a game plan that enables operational maturity during the moments that matter

Feb 10th, 2022

Terraform Versus Pulumi: Choosing Your IaC Tool

Matt Ransford

A hands-on comparison of the different approaches each IaC tool provides and how to match them to your needs

Feb 8th, 2022

Product Update: Conditions for Actions, Activity Time, & More

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

New features provide more flexibility to fine-tune automation, enhance cross-team visibility, and increase the power of runbooks & actions in Slack

Jan 27th, 2022

Where to Begin with Infrastructure Automation

Matt Ransford

Understanding the evolving infrastructure automation landscape and IaC toolchain

Jan 6th, 2022

GraphQL or REST? An Honest Comparison of API Development Approaches

Geertjan Wielenga

A hands-on exploration of the differences between GraphQL and REST API development approaches and their use cases

Dec 22nd, 2021

Walking the Talk: Defining a Continuous Feedback Culture for DevOps Teams

Laurel Frazier

Developing a continuous feedback culture means looking beyond metrics and the DevOps toolchain

Dec 2nd, 2021

Product Update: New Runbook & Actions Enhancements Accelerate Event Response

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

New features and functionality enable teams to execute any operational process more rapidly and consistently

Nov 17th, 2021

Ted Lasso’s Playbook: 5 Strategies for Building a Successful DevOps Team and Culture

Laurel Frazier

What AppleTV+’s hit show can teach us about cultivating positive transformation

Oct 22nd, 2021

Transforming DevOps with Human-in-the-Loop Automation

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

A more human-centric approach to automation is the key to simplifying operations

Sep 16th, 2021

3 Common Digital Transformation Trade-Offs Facing IT and Operations Leaders

Laurel Frazier

Successfully meeting the demands of digital transformation requires the right mix of tools, people, and process

Sep 9th, 2021

7 Must-Haves in a Cloud Operations Integration Platform

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

How integration platforms can empower CloudOps teams to scale IaC practices, expand automation, and streamline processes

Aug 12th, 2021

What DevOps Teams Need in an Integration Platform, Part 3: Flexible Integrations

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

To keep up with evolving stacks, integration platforms should provide multiple integrations out of the box along with the ability to easily create new ones

Aug 10th, 2021

What DevOps Teams Need in an Integration Platform, Part 2: API Developer Experience

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

Integration platforms should abstract away API complexity so developers only need to focus on the intent, not on how to do it

Aug 6th, 2021

What DevOps Teams Need in an Integration Platform, Part 1: Customization

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

Code, low-code, no-code—what's the difference, and does it matter? Absolutely, yes

Aug 3rd, 2021

Digital Transformation and Why Integration Platforms Are on the Rise

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

The emergence of cloud computing and APIs has fundamentally changed how DevOps teams work, and not all integration platforms are keeping up

Jul 28th, 2021

The Top 6 Identity Concerns of CloudOps Teams

Ed Sawma
VP of Operations & Marketing

You’ve got humans and machines working together, but who’s doing what and when?

Jul 21st, 2021

No-Code Runbook Builder Drives Automation Forward Across Digital Operations

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

New features & functionality provide the flexibility, customization, and visibility to drive operational excellence

Jun 21st, 2021

5 Areas of Complexity to Consider When Using External Integrations

Taylor Barnett

Tips for navigating common external integration issues

Jun 1st, 2021

The Human Element in GitLab's 2021 DevSecOps Survey

Ed Sawma
VP of Operations & Marketing

Infrastructure automation is gaining steam, but human processes remain a challenge

May 18th, 2021

The Case for Incremental Automation: Why All or Nothing Automation Is Not the Solution for DevOps

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

Successful DevOps automation requires dynamic documentation and keeping humans in the loop

May 14th, 2021

Understanding the Roots of Our Cloud Complexity

Taylor Barnett

How AWS and cloud computing shifted the complexity of our infrastructure

Apr 21st, 2021

State of DevOps Automation 2021 Report Reveals Automation Holds the Key to Scaling Reliably

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

Organizations are looking to SRE and automation to combat a rise in service incidents.

Apr 6th, 2021

4 Tips for Managing and Scaling Your Startup’s Engineering Organization

Laurel Frazier

Practical advice from two startup CTOs on tackling product development and engineering management

Mar 25th, 2021

Piecing Together the Puzzle: Connecting DevOps with ITSM to Manage Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure

Laurel Frazier

Agile IT Operations requires integrating your tools, data, and people via DevOps process orchestration

Mar 19th, 2021

Introducing New Integrations With ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and GitHub

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

Unify IT Ops and DevOps and alleviate the pressure of continuous change

Mar 17th, 2021

Leveraging Consistency for Safer GitOps Practices

Dan Illson
Sales Engineer

Transposit provides a safety net for organizations adopting GitOps processes

Jan 21st, 2021

Communications as Code

Dan Illson
Sales Engineer

How technical teams can use familiar tools to share information effectively

Nov 19th, 2020

5 Simple Steps to DevOps Automation

Jessica Abelson
Director of Product Marketing

You know that automation can mean faster incident resolution, but you don't where to start? Let's keep it simple.

Oct 15th, 2020

See you at DevOps Enterprise Summit this week!

Laurel Frazier

Our team is excited to sponsor and speak at this year’s virtual Las Vegas conference

Oct 13th, 2020

What Happens When DevOps Cat and Chaos Collide?

Laurel Frazier

Do DevOps Cat and chaos mix?

Oct 7th, 2020

Retaining On-Call Engineers in a Pandemic

Ashley Roof

How to keep the heroes who keep the world running from running away

Sep 14th, 2020

The future of operations is now

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

Making on-call life easier in the world that agile created

Sep 2nd, 2020

Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation - Part Three

Ashley Roof

How to decide what to automate first

Aug 21st, 2020

DevOps Cat Teaches Datadog About Human-in-the-Loop

Taylor Barnett

A recent talk about automation at the Dash Conference

Aug 13th, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Artificial Intelligence

Taylor Barnett

What is the right direction forward with AI systems in operations

Aug 4th, 2020

Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation - Part Two

Ashley Roof

The 80-20 Rule For Progressive Automation

Jul 23rd, 2020

Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation - Part One

Ashley Roof

An Explosion of Complexity From On-Prem to the Cloud

Jul 17th, 2020

DevOps Cat’s Guide To Automation - Part Three

Yoko Li

How to have the best of both worlds, your human operator and automation, in incidents

Jul 15th, 2020

DevOps Cat’s Guide To Automation - Part Two

Yoko Li

How to train your human operator to respond to incidents

Jul 10th, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Human-in-the-Loop

Taylor Barnett

Why humans are crucial to automation

Jul 8th, 2020

DevOps Cat’s Guide To Automation - Part One

Yoko Li

How to strategically automate around your human to get what you want

Jul 7th, 2020

Upcoming Event: Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation

Ashley Roof

Join us next week for a fireside Zoom chat with Niall Murphy, co-author of the Google SRE books and Azure SRE lead and Tina Huang, CTO and co-founder of Transposit.

Jul 6th, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Runbooks

Taylor Barnett

How runbooks can be a vehicle for automation

May 22nd, 2020

DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Scripts

Taylor Barnett

A look at our longtime, trusted friend in the spectrum of automation

May 1st, 2020

Documentation as a Path to DevOps Automation

Taylor Barnett

How documentation benefits your organization’s move towards automation

Apr 2nd, 2020

Rewarding Documentation in DevOps

Taylor Barnett

Why your DevOps practice should include documentation metrics

Feb 26th, 2020

20 Years Since Y2K: The Future of IT Operations with Chaos Engineering and Resilience

Taylor Barnett

Using Chaos Engineering and resilience alongside DevOps to manage change in our complex systems

Jan 22nd, 2020

20 Years Since Y2K: left-pad, Heartbleed, and DevOps

Taylor Barnett

An exploration of incidents that changed how we operate since Y2K

Jan 15th, 2020

20 Years Since Y2K: The Evolution of IT Operations and DevOps

Taylor Barnett

A comparison of IT operations tooling at the time of Y2K versus the DevOps tooling we have today

Dec 30th, 2019

Human-in-the-loop workflow automation

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

The power of automation is increased by bringing humans into the loop.

Nov 19th, 2019

Versioning your Transposit application

Dan Moore

Using versions in your application allows you to provide a stable execution environment for users of your application.

Nov 4th, 2019

Hiding complexity with Slack integrations

Dan Moore

Slack integrations make it easy to hide complexity.

Oct 23rd, 2019

AWS Regions API

Dan Moore

AWS drives everything via API. Why don't they have a simple list of regions and endpoints?

Oct 21st, 2019

Enriching CloudTrail logs

Dan Moore

Enriching CloudTrail logs can help make your AWS environment more secure and understandable.

Oct 17th, 2019

How to use DynamoDB with Transposit

Dan Moore

DynamoDB is a powerful data store for your Transposit application.

Oct 11th, 2019

Using AWS Lambda with Transposit

Dan Moore

AWS Lambda functions are a powerful way to augment Transposit applications.

Oct 7th, 2019

Building a Simple Microsoft Teams Command for GitHub

Dan Moore

Copy files between GitHub repositories without ever leaving your Microsoft Teams channel.

Sep 26th, 2019

Using DynamoDB to track changes to DynamoDB

Dan Moore

Create a table with running diffs for DynamoDB

Sep 24th, 2019

Using a Slack app as a communication portal between different workspaces

Griffin Solot-Kehl

Slack shared channels build a bridge between two workspaces, but what about the bridges between app developers and their users? Learn how to support your app users via chat.

Sep 17th, 2019

Creating an API from HTML: Scraping Amazon Reviews into Google Sheets

Griffin Solot-Kehl

When there’s no API and text is all we have, never fear! Apify can turn any site into an API and Transposit lets you plug it into the other systems you care about

Sep 9th, 2019

Using Slack, AWS, and GitHub to find my commits

Nina Yang
Solutions Architect

Where are they?!

Sep 6th, 2019

Running AWS Athena queries from Slack

Dan Moore

How can you query Athena from within Slack?

Sep 5th, 2019

GitHub file transfer within Slack

Dan Moore

How can you transfer files between repos from the comfort of your Slack client?

Sep 4th, 2019

Slacktember: a month of Slack apps

Adam Leventhal

Hold on to your Pumpkin Spice Lattes, people — Slacktember is here!

Sep 3rd, 2019

Chatting up CloudWatch

Jordan Place

Building a conversational Slack bot I use all the time with Dialogflow

Aug 29th, 2019

How is Transposit different than IFTTT?

Dan Moore

How is Transposit different than other low/no code API integration tools like IFTTT or Zapier?

Aug 27th, 2019

Auto-update GitHub submodules

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

Update a GitHub repository submodule to the most recent SHA, as a webhook.

Aug 23rd, 2019

Getting Started with AWS Athena

Yoko Li

Use Transposit to build an app that makes it easy to transform logs into a format Athena can understand, and reduce the time to set up Athena from hours to minutes.

Aug 22nd, 2019

Transposit internship: IoT button prototype

Jules Becker

My intern project this summer was to build an IoT button that can invoke APIs. It was the fullest stack: hardware, frontend, backend, infra.

Aug 20th, 2019

Automating away my lunch choices with Transposit

Jules Becker

I built an AI to answer the most important question of our times: where should I go to lunch?

Aug 19th, 2019

Transposit internship: profile pages prototype

Helen Cho

My intern project this summer was to build a prototype of developer profile pages that showcase the apps a developer has built.

Aug 13th, 2019

Customizing CircleCI notifications in Slack

Nina Yang
Solutions Architect

@mention me in Slack when I break the build. Why is that so hard to do?

Aug 6th, 2019

SQL for APIs: limiting the filter or filtering the limit?

Morad Ankri

A quick dive into a SQL query and the nuances of filters and limits.

Jul 30th, 2019

New Transposit feature: built-in k/v store

Tuan Nguyen

The application stash gives your apps a lightweight, persistent key-value store.

Jul 30th, 2019

Exploring new user notifications in Slack

Griffin Solot-Kehl

I have an army of Slackbots behind me, just try and stop me!

Jul 22nd, 2019

PrideBot is a reminder that pride is both worldwide and never-ending 🏳️‍🌈

Griffin Solot-Kehl

Just one text will help you find a parade. Or a festival. Or a carnival. Or a cruise. Whatever floats your boat.

Jun 28th, 2019

New Transposit feature: user settings

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

Newly added user settings lets you build even more customizable apps, bots, and webhooks. The redesigned user configuration page prompts users to authenticate data connections and adds fields for settings you define–Jira project, Slack channel, AWS ECS cluster.

Jun 18th, 2019

Automating Collection of Troubleshooting Data with Triggers

Guest post: Molly Stamos, Honeycomb.io

Honeycomb triggers enable you to be notified when specific things happen in your system. But when you get that alert, what do you do?

Jun 6th, 2019

Costco debt collection

Puya Moayer

Collecting debts from friends by using API composition.

Jun 5th, 2019

Embracing the SaaS unbundleverse

Adam Leventhal

In an unbundled world, the monopolies will be horizontal, aggregating similar kinds of interactions across applications.

May 15th, 2019

Superglue for gaps in your AWS infrastructure

Yoko Li

I wished for a bit more “glue” within the AWS system itself, and between AWS and services. Here's how we solved it.

May 7th, 2019

Perfect products don't need APIs (the rest do)

Adam Leventhal

APIs are the escape hatch, the panacea for any complaint, the answer for the long tail of features you'll never ever get to.

Apr 12th, 2019

Hypebot is the hype man who never lets me down

Sarah Brown

It’s the middle of our company hackweek, my project isn't working, and there's no emoji symbol for dwarf.

Mar 19th, 2019

The life-changing magic of migrating GitHub repositories with Transposit

Nina Yang
Solutions Architect

I'm not a hoarder. I need all these repositories, I swear!

Mar 15th, 2019

SQL order from API chaos

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

It’s hard to believe there’s not a good solution to the problem of API composition. There are so many platforms to help you find APIs, make that initial connection, and even call a single API.

Mar 7th, 2019

GraalVM: the holy graal of polyglot JVM?

Sarah Brown

Transposit is built on a Java backend uses Nashorn. We wanted to support ES6 syntax, so we investigated alternatives.

Jan 2nd, 2019

The Mysterious Case of the Bad Gateway (502)

Jordan Place

With very few clues to hand, I began an investigation to chase down navigation failures with API requests occasionally returning HTTP 502 Bad Gateway.

Sep 14th, 2018

Automation through the eyes of an engineer

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

A single button to push every day is a drastic improvement over a 5-step process that needs babysitting.

Jan 3rd, 2018

The short life of DynamoDB at Transposit

Jordan Place

We were focused on building a rudimentary prototype. I wondered: is this the database we want for the foreseeable future?

Dec 14th, 2017

The Story of an Application

Tina Huang
Founder and CTO

This application’s tale begins before a single line of code is written. It is based on the true story of a dog walker and his developer friend. It begins with a dog walker with a job to be done, a dog walker who wants to give flexibility to his clients.

Jul 13th, 2017

Starting Transposit

Adam Leventhal

The most vacuous thing you can tell someone about your company is that it’s a software company — every company is a software company. There are lots of ways that companies differentiate, but one of those ways is almost always in their applications.

May 15th, 2017