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Ebook
7.17.2020
The Essential List of Top SRE Resources
Are you looking to get up to speed on SRE fundamentals with the best SRE books and best DevOps books? Or are you hoping to expand your SRE knowledge into new domains? Either way, we’ve got you covered in our list of essential SRE resources!
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Ebook
7.16.2020
5 Tips for Getting Alert Fatigue Under Control
It’s important to minimize alert or pager fatigue as much as possible, for the health and well being of your team members. After all, the health of your systems is dependent on the health of your people. Here are 5 tips on how to cut down on alert fatigue and improve your signal-to-noise ratio.
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Ebook
7.15.2020
Leadership and Innovation with Instacart's VP of Infrastructure
Blameless CEO Ashar Rizqi recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dustin Pearce in a virtual executive fireside chat and AMA. Below is the transcript of their conversation.
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Ebook
7.8.2020
How to Classify Incidents
Benefits of classifying incidents, how classification is distinguished from incident triage, and how to set up your own classification system.
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Ebook
7.1.2020
SLO Adoption at Twitter
The concept of service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets have been key to this transformation, as SLOs shape an organization’s ability to make data-oriented decisions around reliability. (Read here for a definition of SLOs and how they transformed Evernote.). Today, the Twitter team has invested in centralized tooling to measure, track, and visualize SLOs and their corresponding error budgets.
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Ebook
6.30.2020
Twitter’s Reliability Journey
We had the privilege of interviewing Brian Brophy, Sr. Staff SRE, Carrie Fernandez, Head of Site Reliability Engineering, JP Doherty, Engineering Manager, and Zachary Kiel, Sr. Staff SRE to learn about how SRE is practiced at Twitter.
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Ebook
6.29.2020
How SLIs Help You Understand Users' Needs
To be effective, service level indicators must be relevant to the users’ needs and experience. By consolidating a number of internal metrics into one indicator that reflects the typical use of the service, we can ensure that meeting our SLO means keeping users happy. A good way to think about this is by looking at the user’s experience or journey.
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Ebook
6.26.2020
Top Practices for Runbook Automation
Runbooks, also known as playbooks, are documents that walk you through a certain task with specific steps. Automated runbooks can be a powerful tool for time-saving and consistency. We’ll look at five best practices for getting the most out of runbook automation, some tools on the market that can help you implement them, and discuss how to integrate runbook automation into a complete SRE solution.
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Ebook
6.19.2020
Best Practices for Effective Incident Management
Below are five incident management best practices that your team can begin using today to improve the speed, efficiency, and effectiveness of your incident management process.
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Ebook
5.20.2020
How to Create Psychological Safety for Remote Teams
Psychologically safe organizations are free to create, discuss, disagree, take risks, and make mistakes. These organizations are often the ones we see as key innovators in their unique industries. In other words, cultivating a culture of psychological safety is paramount in order to succeed. So what can we do to make sure our teammates feel secure even while socially distanced?
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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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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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