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Getting Buy-in from Management on Reliability Investments

If you’re reading the Blameless blog, you probably have a good idea of how important reliability is to your customers’ happiness, your business’s bottom line, and your overall sanity. Unfortunately, this perspective is frequently downplayed by management. Even if they understand the importance of reliability, they often see it as something that should emerge automatically from having the right mindset, and not something that requires investment.

Fireside Series: The secret to being a successful change agent in IT Operations

Are you tired of putting out the same fire day after day? You're not alone. Engineering leaders from every industry are working tirelessly to evolve their approach to incident management and IT Operations. Each installment of our Fireside Series is a conversation with one of your peers. We'll get under the hood of their team's strategy for building and operating some category-defining products. Then, we'll use their experiences to build and expand a roadmap for how you can lead your own company's operational evolution.

Blameless CommsAssist - 3 Tips on Making Incident Communication Easy

When you’re in the thick of an incident, communication is both essential and challenging. A wide variety of stakeholders will need timely updates on the situation in order to respond effectively. At the same time, breaking away from the actual diagnostic and resolving work to send these updates can massively slow progress.

From Amazon to Apple: Key Strategies for Operational Excellence in Tech

Jim Gochee, CEO of Blameless with a history at New Relic and Apple, Ken Gavranovic, COO of Blameless and an Amazon Best Selling Author with experiences at Cox, Web.Com, and Unqork, and Lee Atchison, Chief Reliability Officer at Blameless, noted for his work on Amazon BeanStalk and as the author of "Architecting for Scale," with roles at AWS, HP, and New Relic, will guide this session.

The Catchpoint 2024 SRE Report - Five Key Takeaways

Only emerging into the mainstream in the 2010s, SRE is a relatively new discipline in tech. It’s been rapidly adopted by a widening variety of organizations, implementing constantly evolving practices. For the last six years, Catchpoint has been running a survey to take the temperature of the latest developments and trends. Check out the full report here, and read on to see our analysis on five key takeaways.

A Little Resilience Goes A Long Way

‍ Let’s call this the mother of all understatements. If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance that you: ‍ a.) Agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment and think it should go without saying, AND… b.) Are surrounded by folks who pay lip service to this idea while not taking it as seriously as they should.

Learn the Incident Response Life Cycle - Best Practices and Strategies

No company plans for a security breach, major outage, or other cyber incident, but they happen. When an incident occurs, having a standardized, regulated method of managing the fallout is critical. This is where the incident response life cycle comes in ‍

Navigating the New SEC Data Breach Rule A Blameless Blueprint for Compliance

The new SEC rule on material security breaches goes into effect on December 18, 2023 for larger publicly traded companies and all other public companies within 180 days. If you're not already in compliance, it’s important for you to prepare for the new rule now by developing a plan for incident response and disclosure.

Weathering Black Friday and Other Storms Reliably

If you work in eCommerce, you can see the storm on the horizon. Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year both online and off, is only a few days away. Your services are going to hit usage spikes you possibly have never seen before. And it will be all aspects of your services pushed to your limit – people won’t just be searching, or just buying, or signing up for programs, they’ll be doing all of these at once. ‍ Most crucially, everyone else is offering deals too.