IT leaders must give developers and DevOps teams a simplified, trustworthy data architecture if they want modernization efforts to thrive ...

Google added a capability for tracking reliability based on how SLOs are being met that is based on a platform developed by Nobl9 ...

Elastic this week previewed a standard query language that can be used across its portfolio to streamline investigations into IT and cybersecurity events ...

Observability is touted to advance the application monitoring practices of yesteryear, but are investments paying off? ...

As I began writing this article, I encountered some technical challenges in my attempt to provision three cloud providers in three separate regions to simulate multi-cloud and multi-region deployments. I couldn’t get ...

IT operations teams, site reliability engineers (SREs) and service providers are on a mission to scale across geographies, expand their digital services and create new experiences for customers. Amid this drive, their ...

Just as organisms are susceptible to diseases and viruses, software systems are susceptible to hacks and errors. And within many complex interconnected systems, a minor bug could have a cascading effect across ...

Blue-green deployment is a change management strategy for software releases. Blue-green deployments require two identically configured hardware environments. One environment is active and serves end users while the other remains idle. Blue-green ...

The age-old question about the competition between DevOps and SRE sets up a false dichotomy. DevOps is a methodology while SRE is a team within operations. Although the two are often pitted ...

Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. This makes it exceptionally challenging to model the behavior of those systems. Our systems are quickly becoming larger and larger, ...

Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that ...

The site reliability engineer (SRE) role is still gathering steam across organizations. In January 2022, LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st job with the highest global demand throughout the past five years ...