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3.19.2020
5 On-Call Practices to Help you Sleep through the Night
On-call: you may see it as a necessary evil. It isn’t a surprise that many engineers have horror stories about the difficulty of carrying a pager around the clock. But does on-call have to be so dreadful? We think not. Here are five best practices that can help your team respond quicker and build more resilient systems that minimize repetitive interruptions.
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3.10.2020
This Is How to Use ITIL, DevOps, and SRE Best Practices
The trick is to ensure that regardless of your organizations’ different operating models or toolchains, there is shared visibility, communication, and collaboration across teams. This will allow your disparate teams to stay aligned while using the best practices from ITIL, DevOps, and SRE.
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1.21.2020
What Are Service-Level Objectives? Lessons Learned
Service Level Objectives, or SLOs, are an internal goal for the essential metrics of a service, such as uptime or response speed. We’re probably familiar with this definition, but what is the value of setting these goals?
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12.10.2019
Building Reliability Through Culture with Veteran Google SRE, Steve McGhee
It’s astonishing that despite the tremendous time we spend working on our systems, we seem to have very little control over them. If we can’t predict where the next incidents will come from, then we will be forever stuck in a reactive cycle of repair. An analogous example is the famous fable of the Three Little Pigs.
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11.26.2019
Improving Postmortem Practices with Veteran Google SRE, Steve McGhee
For many SREs, Google’s 99.999% availability seems like an untouchable dream. If anything, getting out of pager hell is already worth celebrating with all your coworkers, friends, and family. How can you get to a stage where you have time to proactively prevent incidents, and enter a mental state of calm and control?
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10.8.2018
Getting to 99.999% Availability with Twilio’s Tyler Wells
A remarkable milestone for any company’s site reliability engineering (SRE) is five 9s availability. That’s less than 30 seconds of service unavailability per month! Exactly what Twilio has accomplished. Tyler Wells, the Director of Engineering at Twilio, shares the key building blocks of getting to five 9s.
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6.2.2021
Error Budgets Explained (And How to Make One for Your Team)
Wondering what error budgets (EBs) are and how they are useful? We explain what they are, how they are defined, and how they can help your team.
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5.31.2021
The 7 SRE Principles [And How to Put Them Into Practice]
Whether you're just adopting SRE or optimizing your current processes, we can help. We’ll explain the 7 key principles of SRE and how to put them into practice.
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5.25.2021
Building an SRE Team? Roles and Responsibilities Explained
Are you considering adopting SRE? We will explain the roles and responsibilities of an SRE team within your organization, and how to start building one.
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5.24.2021
SRE Culture [How to Build a Better Team]
If you're just adopting SRE or improving your current environment, we’ll help explain SRE culture and how to create a blameless development process. So what is SRE Culture? Let's talk about it.
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5.10.2021
SRE vs. DevOps [Understanding Differences & Similarities]
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps share a goal of building a bridge between development and operations. We'll explore and compare both approaches.
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5.3.2021
How Blameless Integrates with Datadog
As a leading provider of monitoring, Datadog is a preferred integration for Blameless’ SLO Manager. The SLO Manager is a new service added to the Blameless platform. This service helps SRE and engineering teams proactively make data-driven decisions about reliability efforts.
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4.13.2021
What Are MTTx Metrics Good For? Let's Find Out.
MTTx metrics rarely tell the whole story of a system’s reliability. To understand what MTTx metrics are really telling you, you’ll need to combine them with other data. In this blog post, we'll share some alternatives to the basic MTTx metrics you might be using.
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3.30.2021
How to Analyze Incidents Better with the Right Metrics
In this blog post, we’ll cover common metrics in incident response as well as how to connect your incident metrics to customer happiness, measure an incident’s impact on development, and integrate your metrics into your cycle of learning.
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3.22.2021
How to Scale for Reliability and Trust
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to design services that can remain reliable while scaling, balance reliability and development velocity, respond to incidents using best practices, and build trust when incidents occur through good communication.
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