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Why the Blameless Mission Matters Today

Blameless was founded over 5 years ago, in a world that looked very different than the world today. We were the first mover in the incident management space, setting the standards for what these tools should achieve. These days, concerns about reliability, incidents, and toil have hit the mainstream. Why have we seen the tech world enter an era where reliability is priority #1? Why do we believe that the Blameless mission matters more today than ever before?

Why Resilience Engineering Needs To Be A C-Level Strategy & How To Get There

The consequences of downtime and data breaches can be devastating to organizations, leading to substantial financial losses and irreparable damage to a business’s reputation. If last week's outage by the Bank of England is anything to go by, after losing trillions of £’s per day due to downtime, resilience shouldn’t just be an afterthought for organizations.

Latest Developments in Site Reliability Engineering, 2023

Gartner recently published its Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, 2023, (July 2023) report. OnPage was inspired by this report to share its prediction about the future of site reliability engineering. In this blog, OnPage will review evolutionary tools that can improve site reliability engineering practices.

A Practical Guide to Incident Communication

Even the best software fails sometimes. How quickly those failures get addressed, and how your teammates and customers feel about you after the fact, comes down to how well you communicate with them. Users, customer success managers, Ops team members, IT, security, engineering leadership, even the executive team. Each has a vested interest in resolving engineering incidents quickly. All need to be updated with the right information at the right time.

How to use Key-Based Deduplication in Squadcast | Deduplication Rules | Squadcast

Key Based Deduplication is an efficient way to avoid duplicate entries when processing incoming Events alongside existing Incidents. It generates a Deduplication Key using a user-defined template specific to events from an Alert Source. This key helps identify and group duplicates. This video explains how does Key Based Deduplication work and how to set it up effectively.

Helm Dry Run: Guide & Best Practices

Kubernetes, the de-facto standard for container orchestration, supports two deployment options: imperative and declarative. Because they are more conducive to automation, declarative deployments are typically considered better than imperative. A declarative paradigm involves: The issue with the declarative approach is that YAML manifest files are static.