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Building a Culture of Reliability: Why SREs Can't Do It Alone

Join Gremlin CTO and Founder Kolton Andrus to hear practical strategies for building a collaborative culture of reliability. High-velocity DevOps orgs and complex cloud-native architectures have made reliability harder than ever. Organizations are turning to SREs to make sure systems are reliable, but with so many stakeholders and competing priorities, many companies are still struggling to get ahead of the outages and incidents—SREs simply can't do it all by themselves.

Status Pages 101: How to Create a Status Page You and Your Customers Will Actually Want to Use

This blog post is adapted from my talk at SRECon EMEA 2023 - original slides are available here! Status pages are a simple yet underutilized element of incident communication. Done well, they’re a low-lift way to keep your customers and stakeholders informed when incidents impact them. But without a solid approach, updating status pages can easily become a tedious and often neglected task during incidents. In this post, we’ll cover some tips to get your status page right.

Secret to Flawless Deployments: Real-Time Canary Deployment tracking with Argo CD & Levitate!

Most of your outages are probably caused by a change, and having observability around that will make a lot of difference. Dive into this walkthrough, where we showcase tracking Canary deployments in Argo CD, correlating events and metrics seamlessly with Levitate. For Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps engineers, Software Engineers, and Product Managers seeking to elevate their observability and ensure smooth deployments every time.

AI is not intellignece: Bill Kennedy - The Reliability Podcast

The Reliability podcast aims to speak with engineers who have worked on large, complex systems and glean through their learnings. What best practices should one imbibe? What are non-negotiable learnings to become better at a craft? What’s ‘engineering’ going to be like with the advent of AI? We answer these and more tracing personal journeys of engineers who have built stellar careers around decoding the innumerable intricacies of software engineering.