Tag: SREs
How SREs Benefit From Feature Flags
When you think of who uses feature flags, your mind most likely goes to software developers. In general, feature flags are closely associated with software engineering. But site reliability engineers (SREs), too, ...
Top Nine Skills for SREs to Master
It’s easy to talk at a high level about what site reliability engineers do: They ensure that IT systems achieve availability and performance requirements. But which skills, exactly, do SREs need to ...
Service Level Objectives – Techstrong TV
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are being more widely discussed as they provide a clear path to delivering exceptional results by defining clear reliability goals. Kit provides updates on the community, use cases ...
Reflections: A DevOps Christmas Carol
“Marley was dead, to begin with.” So begins my DevOps Christmas Carol. In this reflection, I am visited by the ghosts of DevOps past, present and future. I hope that, after hearing ...
Kentik Open Sources Five Projects to Advance Network Observability
Kentik today unfurled a developer hub, dubbed Kentik Labs, through which it is making five open source projects available as part of an effort to advance observability across network operations (NetOps). The ...
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment ...
Fixing Risk Sharing With Observability
Incentives are mismatched among SREs, SecOps, and application developers. These mismatches create challenges around how and what information is shared across siloed teams. This asymmetrical information creates a moral hazard where one ...
Incident Resolution for Remote Teams
People working in IT support and incident management right now are faced with unusual difficulties supporting large remote workforces and managing unpredictable workloads. On Reddit, system admins and other IT pros are ...
xMatters Incorporates Stackdriver APM Metrics from Google
As a set of application monitoring services on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for driving DevOps processes, Stackdriver has been steadily gaining adherents, especially since Google extended the reach of that service ...