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Ebook
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!
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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.
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Ebook
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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6.29.2022
Development Velocity (And How To Balance Reliability)
Development velocity is a measurement of how much work a software team can complete, based on similar work completed in previous iterations
Blog
6.9.2022
Incident vs. Problem [Understanding the Differences]
Curious about incidents vs. problems? We explain the differences and how to handle each one.
Blog
6.7.2022
Incident Priority Matrix (Understanding Impact and Urgency)
An incident priority matrix that helps set priority levels for your incidents based on four levels of impact. Here's how to determine an incident's urgency.
Blog
6.2.2022
Software Engineers vs Site Reliability Engineering Explained
We discuss what software engineers and site reliability engineering are and explain their differences and their importance in the software development process.
Blog
5.31.2022
DevOps Team Structure | Roles & Responsibilities
We explain how a DevOps team is structured, the roles and responsibilities within the team, and the balance between an individual contributor and the needs of the team.
Blog
5.26.2022
What Is DevOps Automation & What Are The Benefits?
Looking into DevOps automation? We explain how automation can improve your process, how to prioritize which tasks to automate, best practices, and how to avoid common mistakes.
Blog
5.10.2022
DevOps Pipeline | Best Practices, Tips, & Techniques
Looking into DevOps pipelines? We explain what a DevOps pipeline is, how to build one, and the best practices for building one for your team.
Blog
5.4.2022
The Reverse Red Herring
Our VP of Engineering relates a story where a seemingly innocuous clue turns out to be key - a reverse red herring!
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