Incident Response
Monitoring Your Platform From Multiple Locations
How SREs can monitor a platform from multiple regions as the user base spreads across the globe, and where to start building a location-aware monitoring system.
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Humans
How to Build a Successful On-Call Culture in 2024: Tips, Best Practices
Good culture can make your team 30% more productive. But how do you cultivate it in the on-call context? Read what SRE leaders are recommending.
Incident Response
Why More Incidents Are Better
Totally preventing all incidents is not only unrealistic. It’s actually undesirable in some respects.
Humans
5 Tips If You’re the 1st SRE Hire by Instacart's First SRE
Best practices for “SRE pioneers” – meaning engineers who are the very first SREs hired at an organization.
Incident Response
What SREs Can Learn from the Atlassian Nightmare Outage of 2022
A look at the Atlassian outage of April 2022, and what it stands to teach Site Reliability Engineers. A lot to unpack here.
Humans
Podcast: Break Things on Purpose with Gremlin | Building Rootly with JJ Tang
Our co-founder JJ reflects on building the fastest-growing incident management platform and the surprising learnings.
Incident Response
The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs
Embedded SREs or a standalone SRE team? Compare both models, what each looks like in practice, and the pros and cons to weigh for your company's needs.
AI
What Does AIOps Mean for SREs? It’s Complicated.
AIOps can bring some value to SREs, but it’s important to maintain healthy perspective about the limitations of AIOps.
Incident Response
What SREs Can Learn from Capt. Sully: When to Follow Playbooks
Does it always make sense to stick to your playbooks? There’s no clear answer, but it’s still something you should think about.
Incident Response
Why and How SREs Can Benefit from Feature Flags
How feature flags help SREs improve reliability, what a feature flag is, and what SREs can do to work with developers so their organizations use flags well.
Incident Response
The Best SRE Tools To Improve Reliability and Streamline Operations
A guide to SRE tools grouped by how close they sit to your work, from incident management to monitoring and automation, with what to look for in each category.
Humans
Top 9 Skills for SREs from ex-Instacart SRE
A list of the top nine SRE skills, from incident management, to cloud computing, to networking and beyond.
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