http://ericirwin.io/tags/devops/Recent content in Devops on Eric IrwinHugoen-usEric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin)Eric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin)Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000http://ericirwin.io/posts/system-models-in-backstage/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000Eric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin)http://ericirwin.io/posts/system-models-in-backstage/<p>At Quantum Metric, our teams committed to leveraging Backstage within our Developer Experience Platform (or DXP as we refer to it) following a brief but convincing POC. We felt confident in it becoming a critical component within our Platform moving forward.</p> <p>We wanted to share our experiences in the early stages of integrating Backstage as well as give some examples for why we felt that it was important to build a strong foundation to support our System Model.</p>http://ericirwin.io/posts/custom-autoscaling-for-gitlab-kubernetes-executors/Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000Eric.Irwin@gmail.com (Eric Irwin)http://ericirwin.io/posts/custom-autoscaling-for-gitlab-kubernetes-executors/<p>I recently had the opportunity to share some really interesting work that our team at Quantum Metric was doing to improve the performance and reliability of our GitLab CI pipelines.</p> <p>The intention of this article is to provide an overview of why and how our team decided to implement our own custom autoscaling for our GitLab CI jobs running on Kubernetes.</p> <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Our engineering organization has evolved significantly over the past three years. We have experienced rapid growth within our teams as well as our customer base and we continue to improve how we are delivering value quickly and reliably to our customers.</p>