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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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2.22.2021
QA Engineers, This is How SRE will Transform your Role
In this blog post, we’ll break down how SRE transforms the role of QA, and highlight the improvements it brings for the team.
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2.16.2021
4 Things You Need to Know About Writing Better Production Readiness Checklists
In this blog post, we’ll cover how to make a production checklist, why production checklists are helpful, keeping your checklist up to date, and how Blameless can help integrate your checklists.
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2.2.2021
"I'm Just Doing my Job," An SRE Myth
SRE can help ensure that teams are customer-focused, even if the best way forward breaks the rules or requires you to re-write them. Two ways SRE accomplishes this are by fostering a culture of blamelessness and using SLOs to glean insights into the customers’ experience.
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1.12.2021
This Is the Most Underappreciated Skill for SREs
It's important to learn what goes into glue work and focus on ways to appreciate those who do it. In this blog post, we’ll highlight some examples of glue work SREs perform: building a common language, forging connections, and establishing culture.
Blog
12.7.2020
Introducing Blameless Runbook Documentation
Below is a description of Runbook Documentation capabilities, as well as how you can get started with it today.
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11.17.2020
How Mercari Scales Vision, Culture, & Reliability
In a recent fireside chat with Mohan Bhatkar, Head of Engineering for the Customer Reliability Platform at Mercari, Inc. sat down with Blameless Co-Founder Ashar Rizqi. They talked about scaling while avoiding silos, exciting day-to-day challenges, instilling a culture of empowerment, and more. Here are their top insights and the lightly edited transcript of their conversation.
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10.8.2020
How to Construct a Reliability Model for your Organization
In this post, we’ll construct a basic reliability model and show you how to create one for your own organization.
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9.24.2020
Here's your Complete Definition of Software Reliability
In this blog post, we’ll break down what software reliability means. We’ll look at how the reliability of your software is perceived, how teams operate to improve reliability, and how to contextualize reliability with customer happiness and cultural lessons.
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