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Situation Room: On-Call Team Faces Worst Case of Sunday Scaries

Picture this: it’s Sunday night. You’re relaxing in bed, in that sweet spot where you’re geared up for Monday, but the fun of the weekend hasn’t yet faded. As you idly scroll through content on your phone, you see a message preview pop up. It’s to your work email. That’s bad. It’s from the hosting company you contract. That’s really bad. They’re saying they accidentally deleted the production database. That’s “jump out of bed” bad.

Self-Compassion Instead of Self-Blame

The tech industry is competitive and not without challenges. People are always growing and improving by pushing their limits. Innovation comes in many forms. In order to foster a healthy culture while allowing people to flourish, organizations must carefully enact policies. Growth should be encouraged while discouraging competition and comparison. One of the core policies organizations implement to achieve these goals is blamelessness.

DevOps & SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

As the tech world changes, language changes with it. New technologies will always introduce new terms and descriptions to provide clear understanding. For example, the emergence of the cloud introduced language to describe the changing relationship between servers and clients. Then, of course, product providers will also dictate how their products are to be described, i.e. describing services as “cloud-native”.

Getting Started with Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is one of the fastest growing jobs in tech, with Linkedin reporting 34% growth YoY in 2020 and over 9000 openings in their Emerging Jobs Report. If you’re new to SRE and exploring it as a career path, understand that it can be a challenging but rewarding experience. Here are some quick tips on how you can get started with SRE and jump-start a rewarding career.