Hugging it Out @ Boulder DevOps w/StatsD

Last night, at DevOps Boulder, I presented the StatsD basics: key concepts, metric types & implementation strategies - and dug a little deeper. My mission was to talk about StatsD and how it made me a better developer by giving me a simple, repeatable tool that I could use to instrument my code.

Here are my slides.

During the Q&A session after the presentation, the group started a lively discussion around StatsD. We discovered:

It was great to hear specific examples of how StatsD had already helped organizations and their DevOps process.

If you haven't had the chance to check out StatsD, here's a post and some code samples to help get you started:

If you have any StatsD stories about how it has helped your organization, we'd love to hear them! Please leave a comment below.

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