The tech industry is booming, and there are many different career paths. But, two of the most popular and in-demand roles are Software Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) blends elements of software engineering with IT operations, focusing on reliability. On the other hand, SWE Software Engineering involves designing, developing, testing, and deploying software applications.

Our October update brings a new layout in the web portal, new additional cross-references from Signl details to linked entities, and improved grouping options for conditions in the distribution rules. As always, all the details are in this blog article.

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) measures the average duration between repairable failures of a system or product. MTBF helps us anticipate how likely a system, application or service will fail within a specific period or how often a particular type of failure may occur. In short, MTBF is a vital incident metric that indicates product or service availability (i.e. uptime) and reliability.

In today’s fast-paced, digital-first landscape, delivering exceptional customer experience is paramount to business success. For customer service teams, that means maintaining service level agreements (SLAs) and ensuring swift responses to customer issues that can make or break your company’s reputation. Fortunately, PagerDuty has improved the way companies handle customer service teams and has built applications into ServiceNow’s CSM platform.

In the fast-paced world of organizations handling numerous microservices and projects, tackling the challenges that arise can be a daunting task. As many of our customers come with infrastructures that included a large number of microservices we set out to make it easier for them to streamline alert source management. Enter Global Event Rulesets (GER). This feature is designed to redefine the way you manage alerts.

No one wants to be on the receiving end of the blame game—especially in the wake of a major incident. Sure, you know you were the one who made the final change that caused the incident. And hopefully, it was a small one that didn’t cause any SEV-1s. Still, the weight of knowing you caused something bad should be enough, right? Unfortunately, sometimes fingers get pointed, your name gets called, and suddenly, everyone knows that you’re the person who created more work for everyone.