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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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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
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6.9.2022
Incident vs. Problem [Understanding the Differences]
Curious about incidents vs. problems? We explain the differences and how to handle each one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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