John Laban

Founder, Software Engineer, Beer Drinker, and Oxygen Enjoyer

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@patrickdebois Founder of @OpsLevelHQ here - we saw so many teams doing this with xls and wiki pages years ago, and built OpsLevel to answer all the above questions and more (and to automate as much as possible.) Happy to give you a demo if you like.

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@klprose @OpsLevelHQ @rvretenar

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@jfilipe @OpsLevelHQ Thanks for the kind words Jason - it's been great working with you and your team @theScore!

[John Laban @johnlaban]

I’m super excited to announce that OpsLevel has raised a $15M Series A, led by Threshold with participation from our investors Vertex Ventures, S28 Capital, WIN, as well as a set of great founders and operating angels. We're building an amazing product and company - come join us!

[OpsLevel @OpsLevelHQ]

We're excited to announce our $15M Series-A funding round led by @thresholdvc

But we're really thrilled about where we're headed. So, why a developer portal? https://t.co/qrTNYFKqkg

[Kenneth Rose @klprose]

We're having some shameless ASCII art fun with the @OpsLevelHQ CLI

https://t.co/PteKmx6kSG

[OpsLevel @OpsLevelHQ]

Summer’s here, so a lot of the Toronto-based folks had a great (socially distant) picnic! Pizza + Spikeball: a great combo 😎

[OpsLevel @OpsLevelHQ]

Running #Kubernetes in production? It's easy to mess up. Our latest blog post by @rocktavious discusses a few #k8s best practices and ways of validating those across your cluster. Check it out 👇

https://t.co/VuCRAeO3Jx

#kubernetes #security #reliability

[Software Engineering Daily @software_daily]

OpsLevel: Service Ownership Platform with John Laban and Kenneth Rose @OpsLevelHQ @johnlaban @klprose https://t.co/x9wbLyOBgr

[John Laban @johnlaban]

Adopting microservices? Here's a great writeup of a recent interview I participated in alongside @amiklas from @pagerduty and @jkodumal from @LaunchDarkly.

[OpsLevel @OpsLevelHQ]

Adopting microservices helps your engineering organization scale, but it comes with its own challenges. OpsLevel is featured in this TechCrunch article as a way to manage microservice complexity through Service Ownership.

https://t.co/7dzJwHuVmG

[OpsLevel @OpsLevelHQ]

OpsLevel can help track and surface ownership within your monolith. Except for this one...

#utahmonolith #ServiceOwnership #YouBuildItYouOwnIt

[John Laban @johnlaban]

Great to have you on the team!

[Jonathan Heiliger @heiligerj]

Excited to partner with @johnlaban & @klprose as they make DevOps mean Service Ownership again. Read on for why we backed @OpsLevelHQ https://t.co/iIPd84CzMF

[Yuri Sagalov @yuris]

I met @johnlaban nearly 10yrs ago when he was the 1st employee at PagerDuty. Very exited to partner with him & @klprose on OpsLevel.

With $5M in the bank and impressive early customers like Segment, Zapier, and Convoy, OpsLevel is here to fix DevOps.

https://t.co/gRckT5o87C

[John Laban @johnlaban]

We're taking back DevOps! I'm very excited to share that we've raised $5M at @OpsLevelHQ to bring Service Ownership to everyone. 🎉

[OpsLevel @OpsLevelHQ]

1/ We’re excited to announce our $5M Seed Round led by @vertexventures! 🎉 https://t.co/q5QgxBYg6f

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@nickhudkins @joelkinzel @StabbyCutyou @OpsLevelHQ (Hey, thanks Nick!) We built OpsLevel to solve exactly this problem. It tracks ownership and everything else you need to own/operate healthy services. I'd be happy to show you how it works - DM me.

https://t.co/DzBydAhWq1

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@gabor @schrockn Many big companies build internal systems to catalog and help standardize their microservices sprawl. There are products on the market to do this too. https://t.co/GFSUjMLFoT

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@schrockn There's a bit of a chicken and egg thing here. As you mentioned, there's a large cohort of multi-billion-$ companies that used a distributed architecture to easily scale their engineering organization. They might have had a much harder time without it. Good problems to have...

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@schrockn @abhi_sivasailam Honestly, most "microservices" architectures out there aren't truly micro. I've interviewed dozens of big companies about their microservices architecture and comparatively few go the route of making them as small as possible - services tend to be on the chubbier side.

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@otteradrift @schrockn Shopify did this with their monolith (w/ logical separation between business domains, but all running in a monolith): they call it a Modular Monolith. TBF they also run a number of (micro?)services too, but it definitely reduces the number of those. https://t.co/Cp0SZozwUu

[John Laban @johnlaban]

@bictolia We created @OpsLevelHQ to help track ownership (of repos, services, etc) in a non invasive way across your organization. I'd be happy to demo it if you're interested.

[John Laban @johnlaban]

While various government actions were being assessed for their ability to support tech during COVID-19, commercial rent remained an immediate pressure. It's amazing that @oneeleven_111 + @Siriagrell took immediate action to offer 2 months of rent abatement to tenants!