Editorial Calendar
The Rogers Outage of 2022: Takeaways for SREs
When, eight years from now, folks are creating lists of the top IT incidents of the 2020s, there's a good chance that they'll include the Rogers outage of 2022. The failure, which ...
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS ...
Why You Should Rip Up Your Org Chart and Reorganize Around Value Streams
To compete in the digital economy, teams must optimize both efficiency and effectiveness–it's a tough ask. The traditional dominator hierarchy is a problem because organizations that use command and control create silos ...
Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations ...
Putting the Security Into DevSecOps
The non-Newtonian fluid that’s composed of cornstarch and water has been around a long time, but Dr. Seuss’ 1949 book was the impetus for what it’s often called today – Oobleck, from ...
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, careers, CI/CD, continuous deployment, driverless cars, fiber, google, Herbert Diess, LaMDA, ml, Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, The Long View, VolkswagenIn this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient ...
Techstrong TV: Value Stream Management & Value Creation
Lance Knight, ConnectALL President and COO, joins us directly from the Agile 2022 conference. Lance discusses the concepts of value stream management and value creation. The video and a transcript of the ...
Deciphering the Observability Market
Observability has become one of the most overused buzzwords in IT and cybersecurity. Today, the term is used by vendors to refer to everything from application performance to network monitoring, cybersecurity and ...
Why More Incidents Are Better
Andre King | | application performance management, incident response, site reliability engineering, SREAsk most SREs how many incidents they’d have to respond to in a perfect world, and their answer would probably be 'zero.' After all, making software and infrastructure so reliable that incidents ...
5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow
Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying ...
Rust in Linux 5.20 | Deepfake Hiring Fraud | IBM WFH ‘New Normal’
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, Deepfake, Great Resignation, ibm, If we are true to ourselves we can not be false to anyone, linux, remote working, Rust, The Long View, working from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Linus says next release will support Rust, FBI warns scammers are getting hired in deepfake interviews, and 80% of IBM staff stay at home ...
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
Richi Jennings | | 5G, BGP, Cloudflare, FAA, FCC, IATA, incident management, Look like the innocent flower—but be the serpent under it, outage, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports ...
