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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.
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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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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.
Blog
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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