Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Yesterday was my worst day for a very long time. We spent so much time promoting our Qovery Engine to the open-source community and getting those ~3800 stars. I woke up and discovered that we had lost all the stars and forks from our repository. But what happened?

Earlier this year, we surveyed over 5,700 global IT professionals and asked them what the most pressing challenges they faced in Database DevOps and Monitoring are. We also asked specific questions to gauge what trends we could spot in the industry and compared the responses to the last 3-5 years of data we have.

This blog post defines SRE by explaining SLOs and error budgets, highlighting the innovation vs. reliability tradeoff.

One more “ops” phoneme like DevOps is ChatOps; or conversation-based development/operations. ChatOps has been growing in popularity as communication platforms such as Slack is ingrained in our day-to-day engineering lives. A team lead once told me “if it didn’t happen in Slack, it didn’t happen” showing the emphasis of communication platforms as a system of record.