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How Can CIOs Seize the Moments That Matter in a Complex World?

Everybody puts value on work. But not all work is the same or valued in the same way. What if we told you there’s a way to gain/protect up to $1 million in new revenue, reduce unplanned downtime by more than 60%, and improve team productivity by nearly 25%? This is where the differentiation of work comes in. Most of our day-to-day work is planned out; i.e., it’s work with structure.

Performance Monitoring: Are All Ecommerce Metrics Created Equal?

Number of sessions, total sales, number of transactions, competitor pricing, clicks by search query, cart abandonment rate, total cart value…the analytics tools commonly used by eCommerce companies for performance monitoring can’t include every metric, and even if they did the analysts using them wouldn’t be able to keep up with the amounts of changing data.

2020 SRE Predictions

It’s a new year, so what will 2020 have in store for SRE? Here’s our two cents: SRE adoption will only continue to grow. However, the practice and culture shift, rather than the role, will take priority in 2020. More people (not just SREs) will have a reliability mindset, shifting reliability left through the software lifecycle. SLIs, SLOs, and error budget policies will become common practice to make this shift actionable.

Okta: Atlassian product suite most popular app of the year

Atlassian and Opsgenie are among the most popular apps in the Okta network this year, according to a new report from the security company. From the report: Okta’s Business @ Work 2020 Report takes an in-depth look at how organizations and people work, exploring industries and customers, and the applications and services they use to harness productivity.

How to reach 99.99% uptime: High Availability in Practice.

With most businesses finding it hard to achieve a 99.9% uptime throughout the year, achieving a goal of 99.999% uptime looks daunting to developers. Here’s how to reach 99.99% uptime for your business. It’s like asking someone to build a bridge that would never collapse or a machine that would never break down no matter what. In short, it is a hard goal to achieve but yes it is achievable.

Hiteshwar shares his thoughts on being an SRE

Hiteshwar is an SRE based out of Mumbai, India. His area of specialization is in distributed systems. He works on Kubernetes, running his own custom clusters, maintaining them and creating tools to manage and monitor them. He likes to share his learnings by writing articles and blogs on Medium and Linkedin. He is an active speaker in meetups and developer groups and also teaches DevOps and SRE practices at learning centers.