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Site Reliability Engineering: Definition, Principles & How It Differs From DevOps

Site crashes and outages can cost hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and inconvenience users. Site Reliability Engineering helps build highly reliable and scalable systems, particularly important for companies that depend on their software to support their customers performing critical operations. Hiring a Site Reliability Engineer is the best way to ensure a software system stays up and running at all times. Not only will they help manage infrastructure and applications, but they'll also be able to advise on how to scale a business as it grows - keeping downtime and incidents at a minimum!

Uptime + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy

Uptime is a site monitoring solution used to reach various endpoints & notify users via push notifications when downtime is detected. It collects and stores downtime & response time data & which is then made available as reports to the users. If you use Uptime for your monitoring needs, you can now integrate it with Squadcast to route detailed alerts from Uptime to the right users in Squadcast. The below steps will help you set up Uptime and Squadcast integration.

geeks+gurus: Rise of SRE - Survey Insights

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) continues to rise in adoption. Teams that leverage SRE “good” practices are benefitting, individuals are excited about their jobs and IT and the business are collaborating more efficiently. Sounds interesting? We hope so, as there are a few key insights which you should know. Join us to learn more about the exciting journey of SRE. We have partnered with DevOps Institute (DOI) to conduct their inaugural 2022 Global SRE Pulse Survey, and we are excited to share the pulse on SRE.

Comparing DBA, DBRE, and SRE Roles

As I navigate further into my career, I’m finding the scope of my role has shifted over the years. I thought I’d take some time to help relay the differences I’ve seen between traditional database administrators (DBAs), database reliability engineers (DBREs), and site reliability engineers (SREs). Before I start, I want to get a disclaimer out of the way: some of the comparisons here reflect only what I’ve seen and may not match what you’ve experienced.

Tales from the Toil: Taking the pulse of SRE

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a growing practice essential for enterprises to ensure service delivery, reliability, and access for users. Many companies only choose to invest in SRE when they have a raging operational fire on their hands. As a result, SREs often start out as firefighters, desperately trying to keep the service online for one more day.

How to Become a Site Reliability Engineer: Job Description, Roles & Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is still going strong in the world of software development. As a bridge between developments and operations, it’s a necessary part of any organization that wants to work like a well-oiled machine. Simply put, SRE tries to fix a widespread problem in organizations: siloing. But not much is known about the job requirements of becoming a site reliability engineer.

SRE: From Theory to Practice | What's difficult about tech debt?

In episode 3 of From Theory to Practice, Blameless’s Matt Davis and Kurt Andersen were joined by Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb.io and Jean Clermont of Flatiron to discuss two words dreaded by every engineer: technical debt. So what is technical debt? Even if you haven’t heard the term, I’m sure you’ve experienced it: parts of your system that are left unfixed or not quite up to par, but no one seems to have the time to work on. ‍

Blameless Demo: Streamline ServiceNow Incident Ticketing Workflows

Our Director of Product, Nicolas Phillip, shows you how to create ServiceNow incident tickets from your preferred chat tool or the Blameless interface. Watch his step-by-step tutorial and begin leveraging Blameless to create incident tickets in ServiceNow today.

Anti-patterns in Incident Response that you should unlearn

It is important to invest time and effort in understanding why a system performs the way it does and how we can improve it. Companies continue with practices that yield successful results, but ignoring anti-patterns can be far worse than choosing rigid processes. In this blog we will explore anti-patterns in incident response and why you should unlearn those.