What keeps an SRE at the top of his game? I had an insightful conversation with Jon Duarte, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Mezmo and he walked me through his role and the various tasks he manages on a typical day. Here’s Jon offering a brief glimpse into the challenges he faces, the thought processes behind his approach, and the innovative solutions SREs come up with.

Editor's Note: This post first published January 2024. It was updated August 2024. Ever since retailers started reporting record losses on quarterly earnings calls in early 2023, my phone has been ringing off the hook. Everyone from asset protection professionals to reporters to my next-door neighbors want to know where things are going wrong. How is so much inventory walking out the door in these stores? Why aren’t thieves being stopped?

Last year, we released Catalog—the connected map of everything in your organization. Catalog was built with the aim of tackling one of the most painful parts of incident response: contextualizing problems and understanding their place within your organization.

Tiered Storage reduces storage costs, increases operational flexibility, and provides unlimited data retention scalability Aiven announces the general availability of Tiered Storage in Aiven for Apache Kafka. Tiered storage enables Apache Kafka to seamlessly move older, less frequently accessed data to a lower cost storage tier within Kafka. This enables infinite data retention while substantially reducing storage costs and improving performance and operational efficiency.

Modernizing your IT infrastructure for FedRAMP certification is a complex journey — legacy systems, tight budgets, and the looming shadow of compliance can feel overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be that way: we're here to simplify the process and help you navigate the mandatory steps toward certification.

Picture a gruff-voiced sergeant from the classic TV series “Dragnet,” but instead of solving crimes, they are navigating the complex world of software delivery. Their catchphrase, “Just the facts” isn’t just a catch phrase – it’s the mantra we need in today’s high-stakes world of DevOps, AppSec and Compliance.

In our journey through the evolution of compliance in the DevOps era, we’ve seen the limitations of traditional compliance methods and the high stakes of compliance failures. Manual processes, siloed teams, and a lack of automation have turned compliance into a bottleneck, hindering the agility promised by DevOps.

In the previous two blogs, we’ve traced the outline of Zero Trust from philosophy and principles to frameworks and marketing terms. In this blog Pete Roythorne talked to Marc Barry, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Enclave, about how you can get started with Zero Trust Network Access. You can read the previous blogs here: To do this we’re going to use CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model as a baseline for understanding.

If cost optimization is your only reason for adopting Kubernetes and containers, you might be in for a rude surprise — many companies find that costs increase after moving to Kubernetes. Even companies who adopt Kubernetes for other reasons, like time-to-market advantages, should follow basic cost control best practices to stay within the budget. Optimizing cloud costs related to running Kubernetes doesn’t have to involve trade-offs for performance or availability.

Prometheus and its querying language, PromQL, have several functions that perform various calculations on their data. One of the most widely used functions is rate(); however, it is also one of the most misunderstood.