Chip Witt
Senior Product Manager, SpringSource
Chip is a Senior Product Manager for SpringSource, with primary responsibility for the HQ monitoring application. Prior to joining the SpringSource team in May 2009, he had worked on the HQ product team for three years as a Hyperic employee. Chip has been a practicing technology professional for over fifteen years, and has served in hands-on leadership roles ranging in responsibility from systems and network administration to systems engineering for Fortune Global 500, non-profit, and start-up organizations.
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Beyond Deployment: Successful Enterprise Application Management in Production
The road to application success does not end at deployment. In fact, an application's life is longer after development and initial implementation than it is before, and success is measured almost exclusively by the experience of the application's end-users. Perceived or real, poor application performance can have a lasting effect, and can negatively impact an organization's bottom-line. Measuring availability, key performance metrics, and having timely notification of issues reach the "right people" across the entire application stack is imperative.
In this session we will talk about the importance of a monitoring mindset through the entire "Build -> Run -> Manage" lifecycle of an application, how to identify key performance metrics across an application stack, and how to overlay responsibility work-flows for timely issue notification. The information and discussion is meant to be generally applicable, but specific examples will be imparted using the SpringSource HQ monitoring tool-set.
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HQ Management Playbook: Your guide to a winning operations strategy
Hyperic HQ is used to monitor some of the largest and most visible web applications on the internet. This session aims to combine the knowledge gained from these deployments to provide a set of best practices for your web management infrastructure. Topics to be covered include everything from architecture and deployment of HQ, to extension areas of the product to allow for integration with other management systems and processes. We will also cover best practices for instrumentation of applications to provide a smooth transition from development to operations in the build, run, manage application life-cycle.
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Scale your operations, not your team
In the age of the cloud and virtualization, infrastructures are changing more rapidly than ever. Ops teams must still provide the same level of oversight to make sure everything is running smoothly. In this session you will learn how to use tools to manage and monitor your entire infrastructure in scalable ways.
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