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OpsLevel
Company blog · opslevel.com/blog · on HN as kenroseprogrammingbusiness
OpsLevel is the company blog at opslevel.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Great DevEx is what you get when devs can easily get in and maintain flow state”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link OpsLevel's site mainly in Who is hiring threads and as a comparable service catalog and developer portal product. One linked resource on engineering problems is suggested for perspective.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
OpsLevel is the engine that runs your software factory, with catalog context, agentic workflows, and guardrails that bring in people when it matters.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-01
- Great DevEx is what you get when devs can easily get in and maintain flow state2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-27
- Optimizing Engineering Communication for Better Developer Experience2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-08
- What I Learned Developing with LLMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-22
What Hacker News says?
OpsLevel | Software Engineer | Toronto, Canada | Onsite | Full-time | https://www.opslevel.com ~About us~ OpsLevel is a very early stage startup based in Toronto, ON. We're an experienced team of ex-PagerDuty, ex-Amazon, and ex-Shopify. We have paying customers and just closed our seed round with fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We want to make the Internet better by helping companies build more reliable software…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Submitted Paul Osman on long-term strategies, open telemetry, and boring systems as a story · 67 points
HN discussionOpsLevel | Senior Software Eng, Eng Manager, and more | Remote (US or Canada) | https://www.opslevel.com/careers/#current-opportunities Hello from OpsLevel! We're a remote-first startup building a service catalog and developer portal. We just announced our latest round of funding this morning: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/opslevel-raises-15m-to-hel... We're hiring for nearly every function, but especially engin…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Submitted Why You Need a Microservice Catalog as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> So when I had questions, I needed to track down who owned the service, where their code lived, where their Jira ticket project was, which Slack channel they lived in, and where in the wiki their internal documentation was. Keeping track of this for 100+ services was a pain, so I ended up creating a spreadsheet. It turns out that everyone else in the org needed this information, so this spreadsheet that I created f…
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on “I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free”Submitted OpsLevel adds Developer self-service with Custom Actions as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAgreed. We've seen this with our customers at OpsLevel who lean away from Backstage. Installing (and updating) Backstage is painful. One of our team members who previously ran a Backstage instance at $OldJob wrote about that pain: https://www.opslevel.com/blog/hands-on-backstage-learnings
Comment linking /blog/hands-on-backstage-learnings
on “I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free”Submitted Taking Back DevOps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot saying these will solve your problems, but it may help give it a little perspective at least: https://www.opslevel.com/resources/optimizing-engineering-co... https://fernandovillalba.substack.com/p/improving-engineerin...
Comment linking /resources/optimizing-engineering-communication-for-better-developer-experience
on “Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them”Submitted OpsLevel expands software catalog to include systems, domains, and infra as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks Roman. Founder of OpsLevel here ( https://www.opslevel.com ). A lot of companies build their own internal microservice tracking tools. Not just for release/deployments, but also for tracking service owners and production readiness. e.g., Shopify has ServicesDB ([1]) and Spotify has System-Z [2], which they recently open sourced as Backstage [3]. If you're down to build / maintain your own service catalog, tho…
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on “Ask HN: How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?”Submitted Maintaining a small startup's team dynamic while remote with lunchtime gaming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey, we actually do give interview feedback at OpsLevel: https://www.opslevel.com/blog/why-opslevel-offers-interview-... Feedback is a big part of our culture, so we extend that towards interview candidates. It does take more time, but it's also good forcing function for us to ensure we're intellectually honest about why we're not moving forwards with a person. There is legal risk, but it stems from the fact that it…
Comment linking /blog/why-opslevel-offers-interview-feedback/
on “Ask HN: Why do companies not list your weaknesses in rejection emails?”Submitted What I Learned Developing with LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is very [very] similar to https://opslevel.com
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on “Atlassian Compass: Mission control for your distributed architecture”Submitted Great DevEx is what you get when devs can easily get in and maintain flow state as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned developing with LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Engineering Communication for Better Developer Experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Goal of Developer Experience Is Flow State as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learnings from our migration to Elastic at OpsLevel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seth Lochen on ownership,bystander effect,plat eng,and frogs in boiling water as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validating Kubernetes Best Practices as a story · 1 points
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