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”.

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.

The Four Golden Signals of monitoring and observability get a lot of things right. But they could be even better.

Wondering what DevOps is all about? We will explain what it is, how it works, why it matters, and how it can help your organization.

We’re kicking off August with some thrilling news: Blameless has closed a $30M Series B fund raise! Learn more about how we’re entering the next phase of our journey to advance reliability for engineering teams here. We’re so grateful to our customers, collaborators, and the entire SRE community for their support! Let’s dive in with our favorite content for the month!

A look at outages and disruptions to the IT systems that power the Olympics, from 1996 to today.

How different are DevOps and SRE? Are they related to each other? In this blog, James Samuel sheds light on the similarities & differences between SRE & DevOps followed by the possible ways to structure an SRE team in your organization. One of the terms that people often find confusing is SRE and DevOps. People often ask, should I hire a DevOps Engineer or a Site Reliability Engineer? What is the difference between SRE and DevOps and which one do I need? In this post, I attempt to shed some light.

On the heels of our Microsoft Teams integration release to streamline incident management, we’re excited to share that we now support Microsoft Teams Video capabilities. We generate Microsoft Teams video conference links for each Blameless incident for fast and easy collaboration. Microsoft Teams Video joins Zoom, Google Meet, and GoToMeeting in our video integration suite.

‍ What can software engineers learn from post-incident reviews that physicians do in the emergency room? In our ninth episode, Christina, member of the Blameless strategy team, guest-hosts the podcast to interview both Kurt Andersen and Al'ai Alvarez, MD (@alvarezzzy). Dr. Alvarez is an assistant clinical professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford. Clinically, he’s an emergency physician.

Although the fundamental concepts of site reliability engineering are the same in any environment, SREs must adapt practices to different technologies, like microservices.