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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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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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