Part 4 – Closing the Loop

DevOps is more than just accelerating the ability to ship quality products to production. Another very important aspect is to observe and measure the usage and other key performance indicators. The insights from the analytics offer critical feedback to shape the future of the product and even help prioritize other quality initiatives necessary to improve the overall reliability of the service.

This part will cover the process of effectively instrumenting applications in order to collect metrics that can be used to better understand application usage and user behavior. Another method for continual learning is to explicitly ask for feedback from within the product so that users get to share valuable suggestions as they use the software. Future improvements to the end user experience can be planned this way.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 12, Application Monitoring
• Chapter 13, Gathering User Feedback...