Why Traditional SLOs Are Failing at Hyperscale: Building Context-Aware Reliability Contracts
Discover how context-aware reliability contracts (CARC) redefine SLOs for hyperscale systems—optimizing uptime, reducing infrastructure spend by 33%, and aligning reliability with business value across user tiers, regions, and workloads.
Why Your SLO Dashboard is Lying: Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics in Production
Discover how redefining service level objectives (SLOs) around business impact — not vanity uptime metrics — reduced incidents by 75% and saved $2.3M in lost revenue.
AIOps for SRE — Using AI to Reduce On-Call Fatigue and Improve Reliability
Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become an emergent niche practice invented at Google to become a foundation of contemporary enterprise performance worldwide. With the continued growth of microservices, a multi-cloud infrastructure and continuous deployment pipelines adopted by organizations, the operational surface area has increased to the extent that human personnel cannot monitor and manage it in real time. The effectiveness […]
Context Engineering: The Next Frontier in AI-Driven DevOps
Imagine a world where your on-call alerts are not just a cryptic message, but a rich, contextualized story of what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how to fix it. This is the promise of context engineering, a concept poised to redefine the role of artificial intelligence in DevOps. While AI has long been touted as […]
From Cloud to Cognitive Infrastructure: How AI is Redefining the Next Frontier of SRE
As organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) workloads alongside traditional cloud systems, site reliability engineering (SRE) must evolve to manage an entirely new class of infrastructure — intelligent, hybrid and graphics processing unit (GPU)-driven. Infrastructure has transformed dramatically over the past two decades. We began with physical servers in local data centers, then virtualization improved efficiency […]
The Breakneck Future of Codegen: Why AI SWE Must Be Matched with AI SRE
AI codegen is transforming software development — but as speed and complexity increase, so does fragility. AI for site reliability will need to keep pace to avoid system breakdown and engineer burnout.
When Metrics Overwhelm: How SREs Help Engineers Reclaim Focus
Observability promised insight but delivered alert fatigue. Learn how SREs are redefining observability to empower developers and restore real engineering value.
Nominations Are Open: DevOps Dozen 2025
The DevOps Dozen 2025 awards are open. Celebrate community leaders and tools shaping DevOps, from AI to platform engineering and supply chain security.
Datadog Adds Raft of Additional AI Agents and Tools to Portfolio
Datadog at its DASH 2025 conference today previewed a raft of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that automate tasks ranging from assessing infrastructure alerts that normally require the expertise of a site reliability engineer (SRE), to fixing code and triaging cybersecurity issues using the company’s security information event management (SIEM) platform. In addition, Datadog is also […]
Zero-Trust, Full Stack: Embedding Cybersecurity Principles Into Site Reliability Engineering Culture
These days, with digital threats everywhere, cybersecurity must evolve beyond just being a perimeter measure. Given the rapid delivery of software and the transient nature of infrastructure, security must be built into DevOps. This shift presents both a challenge and an opportunity for site reliability engineers (SREs) to apply zero-trust principles everywhere, starting with infrastructure […]
Ciroos.AI Preps AI SRE Agents Trained to Automate Incident Management
Ciroos.AI this week emerged from stealth to provide early access to a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that have been trained to augment site reliability engineers (SREs). Fresh off raising $21 million in additional funding, Ciroos.AI CEO Ronak Desai said the SRE Teammate provides access to multiple extensible AI agents that have been trained […]
Focus on Basics or Innovation? DevOps Success Requires Both
DevOps teams are experiencing a chasm between traditionalists and innovators — a rift that grows as pressure mounts for teams to leverage the latest advancements. Traditionalists are fighting to preserve the basics, to carry an appreciation for the early days of DevOps, and to not cut corners (look no further than CrowdStrike).
Site Reliability Engineering State of the Union for 2024: Embracing Innovation and Efficiency in the Age of Generative AI
SRE practices are set to undergo significant transformations, driven by technological advancements and changing organizational needs.
SRE in the Age of AI
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a concept introduced by Google in 2004 and since then it has been adopted by various leading software organizations. In its purest form SRE is what you get when you treat operations like it is a software problem. Industry-leading reports point out the strategic value that SRE offers to the […]
Building an Open Source Observability Platform
By investing in open source frameworks and LGTM tools, SRE teams can effectively monitor their apps and gain insights into system behavior.
Our Infrastructure is Still Expanding
Infrastructure is expanding in almost every possible way, and this creates more of a burden on every aspect of IT, specifically DevOps.
Forget Shift Left: Why ‘No Shift’ is the Future of Software Innovation
A no shift strategy argues for developing and testing directly in production, bypassing the traditional dev-to-production delivery pipeline.
SREs Say There’s Plenty of Room to Improve Incident Management
A global survey of site reliability engineers (SREs) found diagnosing issues is the most difficult aspect of incident management.
Unlocking Accountability: How Real-Time App Monitoring Empowers Engineering Teams
Real-time app monitoring is about fundamentally shifting your mindset toward a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Broadcom Survey Surfaces Raft of IT Automation Challenges
A Broadcom survey found islands of automation that operate independently can cause organizations to fail to meet SLAs.
5 Reasons to Move Beyond SRE to Observability
SRE and observability are both often erroneously equated with monitoring. Organizations should shift focus from the former to the latter.
Google Taps Nobl9 to Improve Services Reliability
Google added a capability for tracking reliability based on how SLOs are being met that is based on a platform developed by Nobl9.
Nobl9 Allies With Microsoft to Simplify SLO Creation
Nobl9 integrated its reliability center platform for managing SLOs as code with the Microsoft Azure Monitor service to simplify creation and tracking of service levels.