Are you a product owner? Do you have a product out in the wild, but can't answer who is using what features? Are you a developer? Are you currently developing a product but can't tell your product owner or boss which bugs are occurring out in the wild most frequently? Do you dabble in support? Can you provide the development team with deep information regarding defects your customers are screaming at you about? When someone says to you 'it's slow', and you of course respond with 'which part?' and the unquenchable fountain of insight that is your product owner / tester / end user says 'the whole thing' - do you have any data you can point to?
You need to know what is going on in your products from day one, and finding out shouldn't involve pushing out new builds to add more Trace.WriteLines / StopWatch.StartNews or logging onto various azure cloud service instances to pore over text log files. Lets take a look at some of the tooling and services available to us today and build a set of X-ray goggles that can see into the heart of our applications, and provide us with a comprehensive suite of data that is available in real time, online.
Andrew is a team lead and senior consultant with Readify, and has participated on enough interesting gigs in his time to have a tale or two to tell. Like many of you he has made some strong opinions along the way - some of which even pertain to software; but is always ready to revise them if a convincing argument (and possibly a cleansing ale) is supplied!