Here’s the August issue of SREview! This monthly zine features epic Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community.

Kubernetes is an open-source project that “containerizes” workloads and services and manages deployment and configurations. Released by Google in 2015, Kubernetes is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Since its release, it has become a worldwide phenomenon. The majority of cloud native companies use it, SaaS vendors offer commercial prebuilt versions, and there’s even an annual convention!

In recent polls we’ve conducted with engineers and leaders, we’ve found that around 70% of participants used MTTA and MTTR as one of their main metrics. 20% of participants cited looking at planned versus unplanned work, and 10% said they currently look at no metrics. While MTTA and MTTR are good starting points, they're no longer enough. With the rise in complexity, it can be difficult to gain insights into your services’ operational health.

On-call Engineers are the first line of defense when an outage occurs ensuring customer-impacting services are quickly noticed & resolved. Our latest blog outlines some of the use cases that can help to avoid the pitfalls in organization’s on-call rotation.

A network operations center (“NOC”) provides a central location for enterprise IT. Here, NOC team members supervise, monitor, and maintain an enterprise’s services, databases, external services, firewalls, and networks. With a full understanding of how a NOC works, your enterprise is well-equipped to maximize its performance.

Inc. Magazine has named Moogsoft to its annual Inc. 5000 list — an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies across all industries. The pioneer and leading provider of AIOps solutions made its debut on the prestigious list — ranked at # 884 — based on its 528 percent revenue growth over the past three years.

At this year’s SaaStr Summit: Enterprise, our CEO Jennifer Tejada talked about why digital acceleration has been one of the positives to come out of the COVID-19 crisis, and why this time for change shouldn’t be wasted. Here are three key takeaways that she shared. The crisis, as Jenn explained, is accelerating permanent change in the role of the CEO.

Many organizations are looking to implement DevOps due to the promise of increased release velocity, better developmental agility, and the ability to free up time for developers to focus on innovation. However, adopting DevOps isn’t a panacea— instead, the idea of communication, collaboration, and blameless retrospectives that a DevOps model encourages can help foster a leaner system where bottlenecks are solved in a manner that not only fixes the problem, but also improves the process.