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9.2.2020

Determining Error Budgets and Policies that Work for Your Team

In this blog, we’ll look at the basics of error budgeting, how to set corresponding policies, and how to operationalize SLOs for the long term.
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9.1.2020

How to Build Your SRE Team

In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the many roles an SRE can play, and how to find people with those skill sets.
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8.20.2020

What is a Kubernetes Operator and Why it Matters for SRE

In this blog post, we’ll explain the Kubernetes Operator—the Kubernetes function at the heart of customized automation—and discuss how it can evolve your SRE solution.
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8.19.2020

Here are the Metrics you Need to Understand Operational Health

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through holistic measures and best practices that you can employ starting today. These will include challenges and pain points in gaining insight as well as key metrics and how they evolve as organizations mature.
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8.13.2020

Choosing the Right SRE Tools

Implementing SRE practices and culture can be challenging. In this blog, we’ll talk about what to look for in an SRE tool, and how they’ll help you on your journey to reliability excellence.
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8.6.2020

The Importance of Reliability Engineering

What makes reliability engineering so important? In this blog, we’ll look at three big benefits of investing in reliability and explain how you can get started on your journey to reliability excellence.
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7.30.2020

How to Improve On-Call with Better Practices and Tools

Establishing equitable on-call rotations, putting the right guardrails and automation in place, and regular incident practice are key to minimizing the stress of on-call. In this blog, we’ll share key tools and practices to ensure your on-call engineers are set up for success.
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7.29.2020

Enabling the Stripe and Lyft Platforms Through Modern Safety Science

Jacob Scott is an experienced engineer and enthusiastic participant in the resilience engineering community, having spent time caring for the technology systems powering high-growth startups as well as unicorns like Lyft and Stripe. See our interview with him here.
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7.23.2020

How to Choose Monitoring Tools for DevOps and SRE

Deciding what and how to monitor is an important decision. We’ll walk you through the basics in this blog post. We’ll also suggest a few popular monitoring tools for your consideration.
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7.22.2020

Leaders, Here's How to Encourage Full Service Ownership

Service ownership is becoming common practice and its benefits are well-known. Leadership will need to encourage and empower teams to adopt the “you build it, you run it” mentality. Here are some ways to get teams on board.
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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.
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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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9.17.2020

Availability, Maintainability, Reliability: What's the Difference?

Here we break down reliability in terms of other metrics within reliability engineering: availability and maintainability.
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9.8.2020

How to Improve the Reliability of a System

Here are some helpful steps to take to improve reliability of a system. We'll use a development project as an example.
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