Simon Hildrew

Simon Hildrew
Infrastructure Developer, The Guardian

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Simon has worked at the Guardian for four years in multiple guises. For two of those years he led the ops team through a phase that saw the team grow to three times the size. Now he works on developing internal deployment, monitoring and management tools in an effort to make life easier for developers and operations alike.

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17:00 Thursday, 4/10/2012
Winning the Metrics Battle (finally)
Operations and Culture
 Location: Buckingham Room
Simon Hildrew (The Guardian), Nick Satterly (The Guardian)
Average rating: ****.
(4.20, 5 ratings)
This is a story of trying to make good quality metrics and monitoring a reality. We’ll talk about the products we settled on, how we set about reducing the friction and removing roadblocks we hit, the many mistakes we made along the way and how hiring someone just for metrics was one of the best things The Guardian Ops team has done. Read more.

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