When You Do DevSecOps, Don't Forget the SREs
It's time to break down the silos separating SREs from security engineers.
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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.
De-Siloing Incident Management: How to Make Reliability Engineering Everyone's Job
4 best practices for breaking down silos and establishing a culture of shared responsibility toward reliability.
Pragmatic Incident Response: 3 Lessons Learned from Failures
In my past experience as an SRE I’ve learned some valuable lessons about how to respond and learn from incidents. Declare and run retros for the small incidents. It's less stressful, and action items become much more actionable. Decrease the time it takes to analyze an incident. You'll remember more, and will learn more from the incident. Alert on pain felt by people — not computers. The only reason we declare incidents at all is because of the people on the other side of them.
Rootly Announces $3.2 Million in Seed Funding from XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, & Y Combinator
Rootly is on a mission to create a world where maintaining reliability is frictionless, delightful, and accessible to anyone. Making resolving and learning from incidents every organizations superpower.
The Incident Review: 4 Incidents in Outer Space
From network problems to computer failures, a variety of incidents can disrupt operations for systems in outer space.
SRE Report 2021: The Highlights
Our fourth annual SRE Report launched last week. I had the good fortune to be involved in writing and editing it this year for the first time alongside our very own driving force Leo Vasiliou and the brilliant Eveline Oehrlich at DevOps Institute (check out Eveline’s take on the report’s Key Takeaways here), in addition to a number of folks at VMware Tanzu.
7 Essential Tools for SREs
From chaos engineering to monitoring and beyond, SREs rely on several key types of tools to do their jobs.
"Should SRE Be Broken Up?": SRE from Anywhere Recap
This year’s SRE from Anywhere (SREFA) brought together hundreds of registrants from around the world to gather virtually, share experiences, and network around all things SRE. We were thrilled to see so many friendly faces!
Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels
Incident severity levels are a measurement of the impact an incident has on the business. Classifying the severity of an issue is critical to decide how quickly and efficiently problems get resolved.