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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.
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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!
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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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