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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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