Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

March 2020

Leverage JIRA with Squadcast throughout the incident lifecycle

Atlassian’s Jira is an issue and project tracking software that helps plan, track and manage projects. Jira is also used by customers and internal teams to log issue tickets for the product and engineering teams to look into and resolve. This forms a feedback loop between the customer-facing and product teams to help drive and deliver the best possible software. Jira is widely adopted by Agile development teams to customize workflows and embrace collaborative resolutions to ship good software fast.

Incident Response in the time of Remote Work

The unexpected and sudden shift to remote working introduces a new set of problems within the incident response space. And while each organization needs to take its own unique circumstances into account, this post outlines the best practices and steps that can be taken in the right direction in keeping operations both productive and proactive.

Top Monitoring Tools for DevOps Engineers and SREs

Monitoring has moved from a simple proactive practice to a necessity on any product launch checklist. It is crucial to pick a tool that meets your observability needs & ensures reliability of your service to your customers. Over the years, with an increase in adoption of DevOps and SRE practices, Monitoring has moved from a simple proactive practice to a necessity on any product launch checklist.

Succeeding With Service Level Objectives

In this blog, Danny Mican, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, outlines how to implement SLOs from scratch using the IIDARR process. He also states it is extremely crucial for your SLOs to be actionable and is always following a feedback approach as it will play an important role in the debate of Features Vs Technical Debt.

Hrushikesh shares his journey into SRE and his thoughts on the future of this space

Hrushikesh is passionate about making a complex design with simple and reliable solutions. He is technology and platform agnostic and doesn’t believe in limiting himself to just a few. He started his career in 2006 with a Media company where he was responsible for introducing new technologies along with driving a team to deliver quickly. He does not limit his role to just development and operations and loves exploring everything in the tech space.