A few days ago before the election related support event our product owner asked a simple question in the morning to the technical team of technology and solutions architects as well as infrastructure and software engineers.
The question was: should we spin up more containers for our content delivery servers and go from four content delivery servers to ten or more?
Being a technology lead for the team I was the first one to respond and said that I don't think we really need to do that and that we have plenty of capacity based on the three rounds of performance testing that we recently did.
She was not convinced and asked for some real time evidence that would support my assessment. Well, that started it all.... In the past I would go into our Azure and try to gather some telemetry from our container logs using Kusto query language.
Not a fun process trying to collect data from millions of lines of logs and telemetry coming from sixteen Kubernetes containers every single day.
So I fired up my GitHub Copilot AI agent and starred describing the data I want from the Azure Kubernetes cluster. As the data started pouring in I realized that it is not going to be easily digestible by our product owner.
She likes her Sitecore Analytics and her SiteImprove Analytics suite with charts and graphs. Except those products do not give her the data that she really wanted to see or the time frame and the granularity that she needs.
So I had AI write a Python program that collects Azure telemetry and builds charts to visualize it. Then I built an automation using AI to deploy and store all of this visual data in a Blob storage that I have secured using IP restrictions that require users to be on our network or our VPN for security reasons.
And so a simple question turned into a major Analytics suite that everyone was so thrilled about that my boss asked me today to prepare a talk and a demo for the whole department.
All of this happened in two to three days. Today I was leading a presentation on VS Live conference at Microsoft and now another presentation that I have to work on. Plus I have to complete and present our new Content Management standard, plus Sitecore just shipped the long awaited 10.5 version that I will have to upgrade and have at least one principal software engineer trained on the upgrade process.
And I am working on a prototype for an open source CMS - Content Management System to have an option to replace Sitecore so that we can save on licensing fees.
My plate is totally full and my AI agents are going to be very busy helping me deliver all of the above. It is a totally different job from just two years ago...
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