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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
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.
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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