Making Your On-call and Incident Management Program Stick
Maintenance of your incident management practice is as important as creation - find out what you can do to keep your engineering organization strong and consistent year over year.
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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.
How to Improve Upon Google's Four Golden Signals of Monitoring
The Four Golden Signals of monitoring and observability get a lot of things right. But they could be even better.
Incident Management Goes to the Olympics
A look at outages and disruptions to the IT systems that power the Olympics, from 1996 to today.
Demystifying DevOps and SRE
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.
The Unique Reliability Engineering Requirements of Microservices
Although the fundamental concepts of site reliability engineering are the same in any environment, SREs must adapt practices to different technologies, like microservices.
Most frequently asked questions surrounding Google's Cloud Operations Sandbox
Cloud Operations Sandbox serves as a simulation tool for budding SREs to learn the best practices from Google and apply them to real cloud services. In this blog, we have compiled a list of FAQs surrounding the use of Google's Cloud Operations Sandbox. The Google SRE sandbox provides an easy way to get started with the core skills you need to become a SRE.
How to Notify Your Team of Errors: Email vs. Slack vs. PagerDuty
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations (Ops) teams heavily rely on notifications. We use them to know what’s going on with application workloads and how applications are performing. Notifications are critical to ensuring SREs and Ops teams can resolve errors and reduce downtime. They’re also crucial when monitoring environments — not only when running in production but also during the dev-test or staging phase.
When You Do DevSecOps, Don't Forget the SREs
It's time to break down the silos separating SREs from security engineers.
SRE's Guide to Chaos & Observability
Today’s distributed, cloud-based environments are incredibly complex. Not only does each component depend on many others, but modern systems are also highly dynamic—changing frequently as teams push new code or make updates to infrastructure. Taming this complexity to ensure reliability requires end-to-end observability to understand how components depend on each other. Additionally, proactive Chaos Engineering combined with AI-driven observability lets you uncover “unknown unknowns” that impact how your system will respond to different failure scenarios.