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9.14.2021

What is the DevOps Lifecycle? The Complete Guide

Want to know more about the DevOps lifecycle? We explain the seven phases in DevOps, and how each one plays a vital role in the development process.
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9.8.2021

DevOps vs. Agile | Understanding the Differences

Curious about the differences between DevOps vs. Agile development methodologies? We'll explore and compare both approaches.
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9.1.2021

What is Container Orchestration? Key Concepts Explained

When your organization manages too many containers, you start to need container orchestration. We'll explain.
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8.26.2021

8 DevOps Best Practices for a High-Performance Team

DevOps best practices involve implementing continuous integration and deployment, testing early and often, and changing the organization’s culture.
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8.24.2021

Self-Compassion Instead of Self-Blame

Learn how to resist the urge to self-blame as an SRE by understanding the downsides and discovering how to be self-compassionate.
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8.18.2021

DevOps & SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

DevOps and SRE Language: Discover the key differences between industry terms such as Postmortem vs Retrospective, RCA vs CFA, Disaster vs Incident
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8.12.2021

What Is DevOps? Understanding How It Works and Its Benefits

Wondering what DevOps is all about? We will explain what it is, how it works, why it matters, and how it can help your organization
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7.20.2021

A Guide to Understanding Observability & Monitoring in SRE Practices

Wondering what the difference is between observability and monitoring? We will explain how they are related, why they are important, and some suggested tools that can help.
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7.1.2021

Elephant in the Blameless War Room: Accountability

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6.11.2021

Complete Guide to Service Level Objectives (SLOs) That Work

A "Service Level Objective" (SLO) is an internal target that measures how well a service is performing. Here's how they relate to SLAs, SLIs, and error budgets.
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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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