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Ebook
4.26.2022
Software Reliability Testing | What It Is & How It Works
We explain what software reliability testing is and how it works, how to conduct it, and how you can use it to identify problems in the software design process.
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Ebook
4.19.2022
Shift Right Testing (Do I need it? How Is It Done?)
Curious about shift right testing? We explain what shift right is, how it’s done, how it differs from a shift left approach, and whether it is important.
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Ebook
4.12.2022
Software Performance Testing | Types, Tools & Best Practices
Looking into software performance testing? We explain what software performance testing is, the different types, how it works, and the benefits it can have.
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Ebook
4.5.2022
Shift Left Testing (What It Is & How To Do It)
Wondering about shift left testing? We explain what shift left testing is, how it relates to DevOps and SRE, why it’s done, and how to get started.
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Ebook
3.31.2022
SRE Toil | What It Is & Top Tips To Reduce It
Being affected by SRE toil? We define what SRE toil is, discuss how it can adversely affect your productivity, and tell you the best techniques to reduce it.
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Ebook
3.29.2022
Top DevOps Tools Your Team Needs
Wondering about DevOps monitoring tools? We explain what DevOps monitoring is, the tools you need, how they work, and their pros and cons.
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Ebook
3.15.2022
Severity Levels (What They Are & Why They Matter)
Wondering about severity levels? We explain what incident severity levels are, how to classify them, and how they will affect your incident management process.
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Ebook
3.10.2022
Five Nines Availability | Is It Achievable?
Five nines uptime is a goal to have a system that is fully operational 99.999% of the time, which would result in approximately 6 minutes downtime per year.
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Ebook
3.2.2022
Postmortems Now Called Retrospectives in Blameless
Something big happened at Blameless this month — our “Postmortem” feature was updated to its new name, “Retrospective”. To the naysayer, I suppose you’re thinking, This seems trivial. Different teams call it different names anyway, so why bother making the change? First let me say, thank you for reading our blog and I hope you finish this one through to the end. Now, allow me to explain our reasoning and why we’re excited about this update.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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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use the calculator"ROCKSTARS AT INCIDENT MANAGEMENT. The easy to use UI + the simplistic configuration wizards that they have for setting up integrations and to get up and running in commanding your first incidents. The product is straight forward and easy to use and it keeps folks working inside the tools that they are used to using on a day-to-day basis."
Chisel M.
Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, Zoopla