This session will provide a deep-dive look into using AppDynamics in a Continuous Integration Environment. As the basis for our session, we will demonstrate a CI approach to building, deploying, and managing a multi-tier distributed application that we develop from the ground up. Attendees of this session will walk away with a clear understanding of: -The importance of having an Agile Monitoring capability -Strategies for AppDynamics integration into Jenkins pipelines -How to quantify the impact of application change and tie issues back to code deployments -Leveraging Analytics to correlate real-time application performance to business impact -How to enhance a DevOps culture by enabling data-driven decision making and increasing collaboration across the team This deck was originally presented at AppSphere 2015.

1. DevOps and Agile: AppDynamics in
Continuous Integration Environments
Steve Sturtevant, Senior Sales Engineer

2. Dynamic Monitoring in Agile and DevOps
Environments
Steve Sturtevant, Senior Sales Engineer

3. Session agenda
Goals of Today’s Session
• The Importance of Technology Agility
• What are the Challenges of a Highly Agile Software Environment?
• How does APM Enable Software Agility
• Deep-dive: AppDynamics in a Continuously Integrating Environment
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4. Bio
A quick bio, and relevant experiences
• Performance and Software Engineer for last 15-years
• Product Manager in the APM Space
• Lead Performance Engineer for PayPal’s Middleware Team
• Senior Sales Engineer at AppDynamics
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steve.sturtevant@appdynamics.com
https://blog.appdynamics.com/author/steve-sturtevant/

5. The Importance (and Challenges) of
Agility

6. PayPal Revamped Processes, PAAS and Dev to
Deploy 7x Faster, Why?
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“We did it primarily for agility”, Sri Shavananda, VP for Global Platform and
Infrastructure [Paypal Revamps Datacenter for Agility]
• To respond to high-profile competitors, PayPal needs to innovate faster
– Launching a small service previously required more than 3-weeks, and 100 tickets
– A transition to Agile and cloud based infrastructure increased velocity by 7x
– Adoption of Node.js led to cycle time reductions, approximately 33% less code [
node-js-at-paypal]

7. Increasingly competitive markets require agility
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PayPal Revamped its Process and Data Center to Deploy 7x Faster, Why?
• “We did it primarily for agility”, Sri Shavananda, VP for Global Platform and
Infrastructure [Paypal Revamps Datacenter for Agility]
• To respond to high-profile competitors, PayPal needs to innovate faster
– Launching a small service previously required more than 3-weeks, and 100 tickets
– A transition to Agile and cloud based infrastructure increased velocity by 7x
– Adoption of Node.js led to cycle time reductions, approximately 33% less code [node-js-at-paypal]

8. Mitigating challenges of being agile
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What factors influence agility and pave the way for DevOps?
• Culture that is risk accepting
• Automation that enables software velocity
• Lean streamlined processes
• Metrics data-driven decision making
• Sharing collaboration

9. How Does APM Enable Agility?

10. Pillars of an agile monitoring strategy
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1. As our code and architecture rapidly changes, does our monitoring dynamically
adapt?
2. Can we quantify the impact of changes, can we drive improvements from our
observations?
3. Can we proactively detect degradations, and notify across multiple channels?
4. Can we derive observation into business performance?
Adaptive
Monitoring
Quantifying
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Proactive
Detection
Business
Impact

11. What techniques will we apply?
• Deployment Automation
• Jenkins Integration, Release Tagging
• Integration Within Existing Processes and Platforms
• Defining Performance KPIs, Health Policies
• Correlating to Business Performance Metrics (BPI)
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Incorporating APM as a part of the overall DevOps Ecosystem

12. DEMO
Deep-dive into AppDynamics in a CI Environment

13. Our sample payments app
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HTTP
JDBC
REST RESTBrowser Web Server
Database
Services Payments
Source CI Pipelines Application Intelligence
Triggers Tags

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