Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Cloud platforms make it easier than ever to deploy massively scalable, distributed workloads, but this is a double-edged sword. There are reliability challenges unique to the cloud that didn’t exist before. Failed migrations, recurring incidents, and reliability toil take their toll.

The four Golden Signals are an easy and effective way to measure the most important aspects of a system, and when paired with a reliability management platform like Gremlin, they help you proactively meet your SLOs so you can meet your legal obligations and deliver the perfect customer experience.

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Migrating to the cloud usually means faster deployments and easier scalability, but it also means latency. Cloud applications communicate over distributed networks, and while these networks are fast, little bits of latency can quickly add up.

Are you testing for known reliability vulnerabilities? "Risks have different priorities, but ultimately we want to be aware of those risks. Just like we want our security team to go scan for known vulnerabilities, our reliability team should be scanning for known vulnerabilities. And those are easy things we should go address. There's a second part of it, which is kind of just good engineering testing, which is: Hey, we have a set of test cases that we know need to pass.

Improving reliability might seem daunting, but you'd be surprised how much impact you can have with a relatively light lift. "Reliability doesn't need to be everybody stopped the world for a month, kind of a tech debt thing. If we spent 20 minutes a week, we could actually save ourselves a ton of time over the course of the year. The business needs to be efficient and agile, but it's important that the reliability is there. And so we really need people to be able to react quickly, adapt, and do a little bit along the way.