The Incident Review: 4 Times When Typos Brought Down Critical Systems
Sometimes, as these 4 incidents highlight, major failure results from a mere typo or configuration oversight.
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Error Budgets Explained (And How to Make One for Your Team)
Wondering what error budgets (EBs) are and how they are useful? We explain what they are, how they are defined, and how they can help your team. An error budget is the amount of acceptable unreliability a service can have before customer happiness is impacted. If a service is well within its budget, the developers can take more risks in their releases. If not, developers need to make safer choices.
Google Cloud, Vodafone and Datadog SRE Panel Webinar
Since originating at Google, site reliability engineering (SRE) has enabled countless teams to effectively manage large-scale systems, improve the stability of complex services, and automate operational tasks using software. In this SRE panel, Yuri Grinshteyn (Customer Reliability Engineer, Google) will speak about the core principles of SRE and how the culture is practiced at Google. He will be joined by Llywelyn Griffith-Swain (SRE Manager, Vodafone), who will share Vodafone’s story of adopting SRE, lessons learned, and their best practices for maintaining the cultural shift across teams.
The 7 SRE Principles [And How to Put Them Into Practice]
Whether you're just adopting SRE or optimizing your current processes, we can help. We’ll explain the 7 key principles of SRE and how to put them into practice. So, what are the SRE principles? The fundamental SRE principles are: SRE is a method that operates through principles. Instead of prescribing specific solutions, it guides you with best practices. These SRE principles help organizations decide what's best for them. Once you understand the principles, you can apply them in many areas.
Incident Management vs. Incident Response - What's the Difference?
What are the differences between incident management and incident response? The answer varies widely depending on whom you ask.
Blameless Runbook Documentation is Now Generally Available!
At Blameless, our mission is to provide teams with the tools they need to operationalize SRE and embrace a culture of resilience. We help teams automate toil and adopt best practices across integrated incident management, comprehensive retrospectives, service level objectives, reliability insights, and more. We are very excited to announce that Blameless Runbook Documentation is now generally available for all customers.
What do site reliability engineers do?
Are you considering adopting SRE? We will explain the roles and responsibilities of an SRE team within your organization, and how to start building one. So what does an SRE team do? An SRE team is responsible for building software that improves the resiliency of systems, implementing fixes, responding to incidents, and automating processes whenever possible. Site reliability engineering is a holistic practice that incorporates various types of work.
SRE Culture [How to Build a Better Team]
If you're just adopting SRE or improving your current environment, we’ll help explain SRE culture and how to create a blameless development process. So what is SRE Culture? SRE Culture is founded on these main tenets.
The Incident Review: 4 Odd Incidents Caused by Animals
Incidents and outages caused by animals highlight the importance of flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking when it comes to SRE.
Resilience in Action Episode 7: Killing Ops with Tony Hansmann
Resilience in Action is a podcast about all things resilience, from SRE to software engineering, to how it affects our personal lives, and more. Resilience in Action is hosted by Kurt Andersen. Kurt is a practitioner and an active thought leader in the SRE community. He speaks at major DevOps & SRE conferences and publishes his work through O'Reilly in quintessential SRE books such as Seeking SRE, What is SRE?, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know.