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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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Ebook
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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2.1.2023
Announcing: Blameless + OpsGenie Integration
Blameless now integrates with OpsGenie to further automate your incident response process. Determine service ownership instantly!
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1.12.2023
Incident Management Tools - Do I Even Need Them?
As responding to incidents becomes both more complex and important, how do you leverage tools to bridge the gap?
Blog
1.5.2023
Why SRE Benefits Your Organization’s Teams & Your Customers
SRE takes advantage of tooling and automation to remove toil from incident response. It also allows you to triage based on impact to user happiness.
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12.14.2022
SRE Maturity Model: How Do You Assess Your Team?
The SRE maturity model is a way of judging how far you are in implementing SRE principles. Used as a scoring system, it can show where an SRE team needs to grow.
Blog
12.7.2022
Swimlane Frameworks and Diagrams for Structured Incident Resolution
We’re excited to introduce Blameless Swimlanes - a feature that helps to minimize customer impact and enables faster incident resolution by allowing incident commanders to orchestrate parallel streams of investigations for complex incidents.
Blog
11.22.2022
Canary Deployment Benefits & Implementation Guide
Canary deployment is a smart strategy for teams looking to strengthen their continuous delivery process and incrementally release updates. Blameless itself uses canary development for its major releases.
Blog
11.3.2022
Service Level Management Process Explained (with Examples)
Service level management requires airtight processes to ensure SLAs are on track and to catch any issues beforehand, while following these ITIL best practices.
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10.19.2022
What Is Infrastructure Monitoring & How Does It Work?
Good infrastructure monitoring goes beyond diagnosing performance and availability issues. Make sure your tool also meets these requirements.
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