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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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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Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, Zoopla