Blameless recently had the pleasure of interviewing Yury Niño Roa, Site Reliability Engineer, Solutions Architect and Chaos Engineering Advocate at ADL Digital Labs. She’s worked in roles ranging from solutions architect, to software engineering professor, to DevOps engineer, to SRE. Additionally, Yury is an avid blogger and conference speaker who regularly presents at events such as Chaos Conf, DevOpsDays Bogotá, and more.

Onboarding is an essential yet challenging part of the hiring process. As your organization matures, more of its processes become unique. This makes it harder for new employees to get up to speed. Investing in custom processes and tooling to achieve your specific goals is a valuable practice. But, you must balance this with an investment in onboarding.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is playing an increasingly pivotal role in supporting hybrid-cloud, DevOps environments, where Dev teams need to release updates fast and Ops need to avoid errors and failures in production. Powered by integrations to monitoring, orchestration, provisioning and ITSM tools, Interlink’s SRE solution brings improved understanding of where threats to the health of your IT services might lurk within DevOps workflows.

Adopting SRE principles into your organization can be a big undertaking. You’ll need to develop new practices and procedures to minimize the costs of incident coordination. You’ll need to create a retrospective process that encourages continuous learning. You’ll need to shift culture to begin appreciating failure as an opportunity to grow. Your transition to the world of SRE will also require buy-in from all levels of your organization.

BOO! Did we scare you? We couldn’t help it, we’re just so happy it’s spooky season. Here’s the October issue of SREview! This monthly zine features epic Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community.

When we talk about the reliability of services, SRE encourages us to take a holistic view. Unreliability in service delivery can be due to anything, from hardware malfunctions to errors in code. One source of unreliability that is often overlooked is security. A security breach can damage customer trust far beyond the impact of the breach itself. Even smaller infractions, like failing a service audit, can make users wary.

As companies today are racing to build site reliability engineering(SRE) practices within their engineering teams, site reliability engineering has become one of the hottest and highest paying jobs in tech. Site reliability engineering was a term coined by Google engineer Benjamin Treynor in 2003 when he was tasked with making sure that Google services were reliable, secure and functional.

Many organizations are transitioning toward a DevOps operational model, where software developers are responsible for operating the applications they develop, instead of a centralized IT operations group. In this “CTO Perspective” interview we talk to BigPanda’s CTO Elik Eizenberg about the challenges in that transition, and what it takes to make it easier. Lean back and watch the interview, or if you prefer reading, take a few minutes to read the transcript.