Tag: resilience

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 ...

As ransomware continues to plague organizations across industries, remote work continues and innovation brings with it new threat vectors for bad actors to exploit, 2022 is poised to be another messy year ...

The birth of chaos engineering happened somewhat accidentally in 2008 when Netflix moved from the data center to the cloud. The move didn’t go as planned. The thinking at the time was ...

Over the past decade, chaos engineering has become one of the most popular approaches in DevOps. It’s uniquely adapted to complex cloud-based systems and has the potential to succeed where more conventional ...

Since time immemorial, humans have struggled to communicate. From myth to the modern era, our most memorable stories often involve individuals or groups seeking to be understood in order to avoid conflict ...

We’re hearing a lot about the “outcome economy”—how businesses must be results-oriented to meet evolving customer demand and gain greater market share. Today’s marketplace is connected, always on and increasingly competitive. Companies ...

What do you do if you’re entire business relies on delivering streaming video content over the Web to millions of customers, and there are no examples to follow or tools to use? ...

There’s a famous passage I’ve quoted from time to time when I see someone “stuck” with a problem, flailing potential fixes and solutions wildly in hope that one of them does the ...