Resources
Browse through videos, guides, and other educational resources that cover incident management, reliability, team culture, and more.
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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.
Blog
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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Ebook
3.31.2020
How to Become a Master at Incident Command
The goal of this piece is to provide some practical advice on how teams can coordinate and respond to complex, dynamic incidents. After all, incidents are unplanned investments that surface valuable learnings for improvement.
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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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