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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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8.21.2024
Exciting News: Blameless Joins Forces with FireHydrant
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Blameless has been acquired by FireHydrant, a leader in innovative reliability platforms. This strategic move marks a significant milestone in our journey and opens up new horizons for our customers, our team, and the future of incident management.
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7.8.2024
SRE vs. DevOps vs. Platform Engineering
Understand the differences between SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering. Learn how these roles interact and contribute to efficient software delivery.
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7.8.2024
What is an Incident Timeline and How Do You Create One?
Learn what an incident timeline is, why it's essential for SREs, and how to create one effectively. Enhance your postmortem process with detailed timelines.
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3.29.2024
Automated Incident Management | Everything You Should Know
Looking into automated incident management? We explain everything you need to know about what automated incident management is, why it’s important, and how to do it.
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3.29.2024
Incident Response Team | Roles & Responsibilities Defined
An incident response team is a group of IT professionals that are responsible for preparing for, responding to, and handling any sort of system outage or downtime.
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3.29.2024
Incident Tracking - How it Works & Why It Matters | Blameless
Proper use of your incident tracking software will improve your mean time to detect and respond to incidents, while also helping you avoid future incidents.
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3.29.2024
What Are Blameless Postmortems? (Do They Work? How?)
Do blameless retrospectives (or postmortems) help your team? We will explain what they are, if they really work, and how to do them right.
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2.26.2024
What Is Incident Management in ITIL? Best Practices
Incidents happen, so how do you handle them? We explain incident management, how to prioritize incidents, and the process involved to resolve the incident
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Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, Zoopla