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Tis The Season: Protect Your Availability During The Holidays

Deck the halls! It's time for the annual holiday Code Freeze, that festive time of year when businesses impose a precautionary halt to code changes and Operations should be quiet. But before you kick up your feet, make sure that demand doesn’t lead to availability embarrassments. After all, retail experts suggest that we’re in for another online-heavy holiday shopping season, so businesses need to brace for increased digital traffic...with little tolerance for failure.

Accelerating Digital Operations in Government

Mattermost has proudly served government and public sector organizations of all types since we got our start in 2016. We have always embraced our role as the open source collaboration platform that can deliver developers and other technical teams the tools needed to accelerate digital operations through better collaboration, in a secure and self-managed environment. Today we emphasize our commitment to these organizations further with the launch of Mattermost Government Solutions.

Best Practices for Cloud Monitoring

In our last episode, we covered best practices for deploying and using Cloud Operations in an enterprise environment. But we still left some questions unanswered. How should you monitor your services? How should you deal with alerts? And what about managing cost? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, Yuri discusses best practices for setting up and using Cloud Monitoring and optimizing monitoring costs.

A network admin's guide to network diagram software

For organizations growing larger by the day, network management becomes increasingly complex, and scaling to meet this growth can be a major headache. To battle such complexity without a graphic representation of a network is a tiresome task, which is where network diagram software comes in. Network diagram software allows a network admin to portray the network clearly and legibly through detailed graphics.

DevOps State of Mind Podcast Episode 1: Trust, tooling, and a no-blame culture with LogDNA

Tucker Callaway is the CEO of LogDNA. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software with an emphasis on developer and DevOps tools. Tucker fosters a DevOps culture at LogDNA by tying technical projects to business outcomes, practicing extreme transparency, and empowering every person in the company to contribute.

SRE Principles: The 7 Fundamental Rules

In one of our previous articles, we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. In this article, we will take a deeper dive into the various SRE principles and guidelines that a site reliability engineer practices in their role.