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Ebook
7.17.2020
The Essential List of Top SRE Resources
Are you looking to get up to speed on SRE fundamentals with the best SRE books and best DevOps books? Or are you hoping to expand your SRE knowledge into new domains? Either way, we’ve got you covered in our list of essential SRE resources!
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Ebook
7.16.2020
5 Tips for Getting Alert Fatigue Under Control
It’s important to minimize alert or pager fatigue as much as possible, for the health and well being of your team members. After all, the health of your systems is dependent on the health of your people. Here are 5 tips on how to cut down on alert fatigue and improve your signal-to-noise ratio.
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Ebook
7.15.2020
Leadership and Innovation with Instacart's VP of Infrastructure
Blameless CEO Ashar Rizqi recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dustin Pearce in a virtual executive fireside chat and AMA. Below is the transcript of their conversation.
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Ebook
7.8.2020
How to Classify Incidents
Benefits of classifying incidents, how classification is distinguished from incident triage, and how to set up your own classification system.
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Ebook
7.1.2020
SLO Adoption at Twitter
The concept of service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets have been key to this transformation, as SLOs shape an organization’s ability to make data-oriented decisions around reliability. (Read here for a definition of SLOs and how they transformed Evernote.). Today, the Twitter team has invested in centralized tooling to measure, track, and visualize SLOs and their corresponding error budgets.
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Ebook
6.30.2020
Twitter’s Reliability Journey
We had the privilege of interviewing Brian Brophy, Sr. Staff SRE, Carrie Fernandez, Head of Site Reliability Engineering, JP Doherty, Engineering Manager, and Zachary Kiel, Sr. Staff SRE to learn about how SRE is practiced at Twitter.
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Ebook
6.29.2020
How SLIs Help You Understand Users' Needs
To be effective, service level indicators must be relevant to the users’ needs and experience. By consolidating a number of internal metrics into one indicator that reflects the typical use of the service, we can ensure that meeting our SLO means keeping users happy. A good way to think about this is by looking at the user’s experience or journey.
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Ebook
6.26.2020
Top Practices for Runbook Automation
Runbooks, also known as playbooks, are documents that walk you through a certain task with specific steps. Automated runbooks can be a powerful tool for time-saving and consistency. We’ll look at five best practices for getting the most out of runbook automation, some tools on the market that can help you implement them, and discuss how to integrate runbook automation into a complete SRE solution.
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Ebook
6.19.2020
Best Practices for Effective Incident Management
Below are five incident management best practices that your team can begin using today to improve the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of your incident management process.
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Ebook
5.20.2020
How to Create Psychological Safety for Remote Teams
Psychologically safe organizations are free to create, discuss, disagree, take risks, and make mistakes. These organizations are often the ones we see as key innovators in their unique industries. In other words, cultivating a culture of psychological safety is paramount in order to succeed. So what can we do to make sure our teammates feel secure even while socially distanced?
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12.21.2021
Incident Management Software | The Best Tools for Your Team
Wondering about Incident Management Software? We explain the best incident management software tools and how they work.
Blog
12.16.2021
CloudOps (Everything You Should Know)
Wondering about CloudOps? We explain what CloudOps is, how it relates to DevOps, and how teams can use CloudOPs to best manage cloud-native development.
Blog
12.9.2021
7 DevOps Principles Every Team Needs to Practice
If you are optimizing your current DevOps processes, we can help. We’ll explain the 7 key principles of DevOps and how to put them into practice.
Blog
12.7.2021
DevOps Metrics | How to Measure What Matters
Wondering about DevOps Metrics? We explain what metrics matter in DevOps, why they are important, and how to measure them.
Blog
12.2.2021
DevOps Workflow | A Complete Guide & Best Practices
Curious about DevOps Workflow? We explain the DevOps process, how automation relates to workflow, and best practices for workflow design.
Blog
11.10.2021
Microservice Architecture | What It Is & Why It Matters
Curious about microservice architecture? We explain what microservice architecture is, and how it can be used to quickly produce reliable lightweight applications.
Blog
11.2.2021
DevOps Culture: How to Build a Stronger Team
Trying to improve your DevOps team? We’ll explain what DevOps culture is, how it benefits your team, and how you can build it within your organization.
Blog
10.27.2021
What is DevOps CI/CD & Why Is It Important?
Curious about DevOps CI/CD? We explain the continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline and why it’s important to the DevOps process.
Blog
10.6.2021
Incident Response: A Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Incidents
Looking into Incident Response? We explain incident response, the end-to-end process, the teams involved, and steps to take to avoid friction and slow-down. The goal is to manage the incident as efficiently as possible in order to restore or resume the service to its expected operational state.
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Chisel M.
Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, Zoopla