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9.28.2022

On-Call Schedules - Best Practices in 2022 (With Examples)

On-call rotation scheduling can feel like a jigsaw puzzle. Here are examples of today’s practices to simplify the task while preventing employee fatigue.
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9.12.2022

Blameless Expands Microsoft Partnership to Deliver Faster, More Intuitive Incident Response Collaboration

The integration between Blameless and Microsoft Teams is significant for our customers, because it enhances their main line of communication during the most pressing moments of incident response. Directly from Microsoft Teams, an on-call engineer initiates an incident, notifies stakeholders, and orchestrates rapid response, all while automatically collecting each event or “touch” that adds value to the retrospective (postmortem) for learning.
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8.31.2022

Software Metrics Every SRE Team Should Measure

Software metrics give important insight into the performance of your product, but which ones matter most to SRE teams? How do you decide which metrics to track?
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8.24.2022

What is an SRE job description?

Whether you’re building an SRE team or looking for a job as an SRE, understanding the SRE job description is important. How would you define an SRE job?
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8.17.2022

Chaos Engineering: What Is It & How Does It Work?

Distributed software systems have many points of failure. Can the process of chaos engineering help identify problems and gauge resiliency?
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8.3.2022

Top SRE Interview Questions You Should Know

Whether you are a hiring manager or an SRE job candidate, there are certain questions you should be prepared to ask or respond to. Find out what they are here.
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7.28.2022

Introducing Our Newest Integration with ServiceNow

Blameless released a new integration to ServiceNow’s incident management ticketing solution. If you are a DevOps team moving towards SRE, this is worth a look.
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7.14.2022

Promoted to SRE Advocate: A Dream Turned Reality

Big news everyone! We’re excited to promote our own, Matt Davis, to SRE Advocate. Hear what Matt has to say about his journey into this role, and what it means to him.
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7.12.2022

7 Ways Tagging Incidents Can Teach You About System Health

One of the most powerful ways to prepare for future incidents is to study and learn from patterns in past incidents. Learn how incident tagging can help.
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7.6.2022

SRE Roles and Responsibilities Defined

SRE is a practice that creates a bridge between operations and development. We discuss the roles and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer.
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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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Agero

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Citrix, Greenlight, and Incognia

Top Reliability and Scaling Practices from Experts at Citrix, Greenlight Financial Technology, and Incognia
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Machinify

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