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observiq

Splashing into Data Lakes: The Reservoir of Observability

Aug 11, 2023 By JJ Jeffries, Head of Marketing In ObservIQ
If you’re a systems engineer, SRE, or just someone with a love for tech buzzwords, you’ve likely heard about “data lakes”. Before we dive deep into this concept, let’s debunk the illusion: there aren’t any floaties or actual lakes involved! Instead, imagine a vast reservoir where you store loads and loads of raw data in its natural format. Now, pair this with the idea of observability and telemetry pipelines, and we have ourselves an engaging topic.
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rootly

Rootly Raises $12 Million from Renegade Partners, Google Gradient Ventures, & XYZ Ventures

Aug 10, 2023 By JJ Tang In Rootly

We are excited to announce that we have raised a $12M round of financing led by Renegade Partners with participation from Google Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund) and XYZ Ventures. This brings our total funding to date to $15.2M ($20M CAD) alongside our other existing investors Y Combinator and 8VC.

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SRE in Transition: From Startup to Enterprise

Aug 9, 2023 By Datadog In Datadog
"Startups are defined by “ship or die”. As a result, SRE teams at a startup should be focused on enabling product engineers to ship features as quickly as possible. As your startup transitions from “we’ll run out of money in the next 18 months” to “we have more than 1000 engineers”, how should the SRE organization evolve and provide the best value through that transition (including booting one up if you don’t have one)? I will discuss specific ways the organization needs to evolve to meet this challenge, how the SRE org can advocate for and support this change (both in direct actions and in “influence”), and how the overhang of startup technical and cultural debt can make this shift more challenging (but also more necessary).
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onpage

Tools and Trends in Site Reliability Engineering according to Gartner's 2023 Hype Cycle

Aug 9, 2023 By Halle Katz In OnPage

Gartner recently published its Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, 2023, report. This blog reviews the future of site reliability engineering based on Gartner’s Hype Cycle. Additionally, the OnPage team is pleased that Gartner mentioned OnPage as a sample vendor in the Automated Incident Response category.

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squadcast

Unveiling Squadcast's Enhanced Status Pages

Aug 3, 2023 By Sanjog Sandhu In Squadcast
Meet Kevin and Mai (again): Navigating the Troublesome Waters of Platform Downtime. Kevin is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), constantly on the lookout for potential downtime that could impact their platform, kryptobro.com. Mai is his adept partner, ever-ready to troubleshoot. In their journey, the previous version of Squadcast Status Pages served as a helpful tool, but they soon found room for improvements.
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resolve

SRE Redefines IT Operations as Architect of Sustainable Systems

Aug 3, 2023 By Ari Stowe In Resolve

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a term that’s getting attention and gaining momentum – and for a good reason. SRE takes features of software engineering and applies them to various problems in infrastructures and operations. Organizations look to build SRE teams with a couple goals in mind, including to create and increase scalability and develop solid software systems.

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rootly

Kubernetes Incident Management Best Practices

Aug 3, 2023 By Rajesh Tilwani In Rootly

Creating just any infrastructure on Kubernetes is not enough. There are so many basic configurations you could apply and create the infrastructure for your application for the time being and it might work just fine. The incident responses won’t always remain 100% reliable. You will run into newer potholes, and that’s okay.

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