Wondering about DevOps Tools? We explain the best tools for every step of the DevOps development process. What are DevOps Tools used for? DevOps relies on effective tools to help teams manage the entire software development lifecycle. These tools can automate tasks, monitor applications, and facilitate sharing of information between teams.

An analysis of SRE job descriptions from 4 companies highlights what businesses actually expect SREs to do.

In the second half of 2021, eG Innovations partnered with the DevOps Institute to conduct an online survey of more than 900+ individuals from Sys Admin, DevOps, SREs, and other IT backgrounds. We asked questions about: Some of the results included: You can download the full survey results here: Cloud Technology Adoption Trends | eG Innovations If surveys and statistics on technology adoption are of interest, we have some other recent ones available, conducted in the last 12 months,.

Wondering what DevOps Methodology is all about? We will explain what it is, how it works, and the principles and processes that make it successful. What is DevOps Methodology? DevOps methodology is a development process where Development and IT Operations collaborate throughout the lifecycle to facilitate faster deployment of reliable software products.

We’re so excited to announce our latest platform feature, CommsFlow™! This addition to the core Blameless product offering allows teams to keep stakeholders updated as the reliability of services and applications change. With our new automated and customizable communication flows, on-call, engineering, and business teams feel a sense of accomplishment and, of course, stay informed.

Many of the concepts SREs take for granted about incident management originated with efforts to fight fires in California in the 1970s.

Unlike traditional IT Ops, the role of the SRE isn’t simply focused on finding and solving technical problems. The big win for today’s SREs is supporting the organization’s strategic innovation initiatives. With the appropriate observability capabilities, it’s possible to quantify the value that software infrastructure contributes to this innovation effort.

Wondering why you should choose SRE for your organization? We will explain what it is and all the benefits it can bring to your organization. What are the benefits of SRE?

An overview of major IT incidents and outages in 2021

At Blameless, we want to embrace all the benefits of the SRE best practices we preach. We’re proud to announce that we’ve started using a new system of feature flagging with canaried and iterative rollouts. This is a system where new releases are broken down and flagged based on the features each part of the release implements. Then, an increasing subset of users are given access to an increasing number of features.

Wondering about Cloud-Native Development? We explain what cloud-native development is and how it can help build fast and reliable applications.

The term Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) first appeared in Google in the early 2000s. In Google’s 2016 SRE Book, Benjamin Treynor Sloss wrote that, generally speaking, “an SRE team is responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of their service(s).” This means that the SRE teams at Google decide how a system should run in production as well as how to make it run that way.

A summary of the Log4j vulnerability, and key takeaways for SREs.

Part of the trepidation of being on-call is encountering unfamiliar emergency scenarios where we are surprised by suddenly not knowing how to do our jobs. We feel lost and alone, complicated by the world around us, powerless to resolve or even mitigate the problem. On-call need not be a solo affair full of fear and anxiety. There are ways we can employ practice and open collaboration outside of incidents to prepare us better.

We talk about reliability a lot from the context of software engineering. We ask questions about service availability, or how important it is for specific users. But when organizations face outages, it becomes immediately obvious that the reliability of an online service or application is something that impacts the entire business with significant costs. A mindset of putting reliability first is a business imperative that all teams should share.

As organizations progress in their reliability journey, they may build a dedicated team of site reliability engineers. This team can be structured in two major ways: a distributed model, where SREs are embedded in each project team, providing guidance and support for that team; and a centralized model, where one team provides infrastructure and processes for the entire organization.

Amazon EventBridge is an AWS serverless event bus service making it easier to build event-driven applications. It uses events generated from your applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and other AWS services. It delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources to target services like AWS Lambda. You can also set up routing rules to determine the destination where you wish to send the data and build decoupled application architectures.