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8.21.2024

Exciting News: Blameless Joins Forces with FireHydrant

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Blameless has been acquired by FireHydrant, a leader in innovative reliability platforms. This strategic move marks a significant milestone in our journey and opens up new horizons for our customers, our team, and the future of incident management.
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7.8.2024

SRE vs. DevOps vs. Platform Engineering

Understand the differences between SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering. Learn how these roles interact and contribute to efficient software delivery.
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7.8.2024

What is an Incident Timeline and How Do You Create One?

Learn what an incident timeline is, why it's essential for SREs, and how to create one effectively. Enhance your postmortem process with detailed timelines.
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3.29.2024

Automated Incident Management | Everything You Should Know

Looking into automated incident management? We explain everything you need to know about what automated incident management is, why it’s important, and how to do it.
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3.29.2024

Incident Response Team | Roles & Responsibilities Defined

An incident response team is a group of IT professionals that are responsible for preparing for, responding to, and handling any sort of system outage or downtime.
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3.29.2024

Incident Tracking - How it Works & Why It Matters | Blameless

Proper use of your incident tracking software will improve your mean time to detect and respond to incidents, while also helping you avoid future incidents.
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3.29.2024

What Are Blameless Postmortems? (Do They Work? How?)

Do blameless retrospectives (or postmortems) help your team? We will explain what they are, if they really work, and how to do them right.
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2.26.2024

What Is Incident Management in ITIL? Best Practices

Incidents happen, so how do you handle them? We explain incident management, how to prioritize incidents, and the process involved to resolve the incident
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2.26.2024

The Ultimate, Incident Postmortem (Retrospective) Template

Here’s the template we use for incident postmortems (retrospectives!) at Blameless. Use this as a checklist for your own organization.
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2.26.2024

What is Site Reliability Engineering [Simple Intro to SRE]

Wondering what SRE is all about? We will explain what it is, how it works, why it was developed, and how it can help your organization.
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3.31.2020

How to Become a Master at Incident Command

The goal of this piece is to provide some practical advice on how teams can coordinate and respond to complex, dynamic incidents. After all, incidents are unplanned investments that surface valuable learnings for improvement.
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3.19.2020

5 On-Call Practices to Help you Sleep through the Night

On-call: you may see it as a necessary evil. It isn’t a surprise that many engineers have horror stories about the difficulty of carrying a pager around the clock. But does on-call have to be so dreadful? We think not. Here are five best practices that can help your team respond quicker and build more resilient systems that minimize repetitive interruptions.
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3.10.2020

This Is How to Use ITIL, DevOps, and SRE Best Practices

The trick is to ensure that regardless of your organizations’ different operating models or toolchains, there is shared visibility, communication, and collaboration across teams. This will allow your disparate teams to stay aligned while using the best practices from ITIL, DevOps, and SRE.
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1.21.2020

What Are Service-Level Objectives? Lessons Learned

Service Level Objectives, or SLOs, are an internal goal for the essential metrics of a service, such as uptime or response speed. We’re probably familiar with this definition, but what is the value of setting these goals?
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12.10.2019

Building Reliability Through Culture with Veteran Google SRE, Steve McGhee

It’s astonishing that despite the tremendous time we spend working on our systems, we seem to have very little control over them. If we can’t predict where the next incidents will come from, then we will be forever stuck in a reactive cycle of repair. An analogous example is the famous fable of the Three Little Pigs.
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11.26.2019

Improving Postmortem Practices with Veteran Google SRE, Steve McGhee

For many SREs, Google’s 99.999% availability seems like an untouchable dream. If anything, getting out of pager hell is already worth celebrating with all your coworkers, friends, and family. How can you get to a stage where you have time to proactively prevent incidents, and enter a mental state of calm and control?
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10.8.2018

Getting to 99.999% Availability with Twilio’s Tyler Wells

A remarkable milestone for any company’s site reliability engineering (SRE) is five 9s availability. That’s less than 30 seconds of service unavailability per month! Exactly what Twilio has accomplished. Tyler Wells, the Director of Engineering at Twilio, shares the key building blocks of getting to five 9s.
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Severity vs. Priority | Understanding the Differences

Wondering about severity vs. priority? We explain severity and priority and discuss their differences and their impact on the incident management process.
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Customer Success Stories

Agero

Agero’s Incident Management Is “Invincible” with the Help of Blameless Automation
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Eventbrite

Eventbrite Mitigates Risk by Improving MTTA by 10X
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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

Machinify gets "tremendous value" from Blameless, responds to incidents confidently with universal insight on service reliability
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