In the ever-evolving landscape of APIs, ensuring seamless interactions and managing changes becomes crucial. While innovation and adaptability are essential, maintaining backward compatibility is equally important to avoid disruption for existing users. This is where REST API versioning comes into play. Versioning allows you to introduce new features or changes to your API in a controlled manner, while simultaneously keeping older versions running smoothly.

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, striking a balance between innovation and reliability is a constant challenge for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. On one hand, businesses and customers crave the constant stream of new features and functionalities that fuel progress. On the other hand, ensuring system stability, minimal downtime, and optimal performance remains paramount for user experience and business continuity.

Whether a business is small scale, medium-sized, or a large enterprise, downtime issues can affect any organization as no business is exempt from experiencing downtime. However, the swifter the acknowledgment of an issue, the quicker the response, resulting in a reduced impact on business. An effective On-Call framework not only aids in prompt issue resolution but also plays a vital role in minimizing the overall downtime impact on business operations.

It has been lightly revised and reposted with his permission from the original article on Medium. So, you’re training incident commanders (IC), and you have your group read Google’s SRE books. Everyone knows what they are supposed to do and you are ready for any incident, right? Not quite. Half of your team complains that the descriptions are too vague or don’t apply to their situations, and the other half just starts to improvise. The result?

Your first years following graduation are critical to finding the most lucrative and fulfilling career path. Here, we explore SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) vs SWE (Software Engineering) opportunities to help focus your career goals.

Critical incidents can pose significant challenges in organizational operations that demand prompt and effective resolution. A vital aspect of this resolution process involves Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports, which dissect incidents to uncover their underlying causes and pave the way for preventive measures.

In an era where automation and artificial intelligence are increasingly integral to software development and operations, the 2024 VOID Report sheds critical light on the nuanced impacts of these technologies. Here, we delve deeper into the report's key findings and explore predictions for the near future, weaving a comprehensive narrative highlighting challenges and opportunities.

In a dynamic business landscape, organizations specifically Managed Service Providers (MSPs) often find themselves juggling the needs of multiple customers. It's crucial for them to maintain strict data segregation to prevent the mixing of customer information. Likewise, large organizations with distinct departments like the customer service or the technical department face similar challenges.

External dependencies and third-party services play a crucial role in powering modern applications. These components bring a wealth of benefits, ranging from access to specialized tools and resources to the ability to offload non-core tasks, allowing development teams to focus on delivering value-added features.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides the framework to help businesses mitigate cybersecurity risks. The framework also protects networks and data, outlining best practices to inform decisions that save time and money. Creating a cybersecurity strategy that identifies, protects, detects, responds, and helps you recover from cybersecurity incidents is critical in the evolving threat landscape.

On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) introduced new rules regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incidents. Public companies subject to reporting requirements must comply with the changes to avoid rescission and other monetary penalties, not to mention the risk of legal action and reputation damage. Here, we look at the two new cybersecurity rules and how your company can comply. ‍

A detailed checklist of points you should consider before choosing a monitoring system.

In today's hyper-connected world, digital operations underpin every successful organization. Yet, with countless tools, processes, and complexities involved, it can be challenging to understand the big picture and optimize performance. This blog aims to demystify digital operations by providing a comprehensive overview. We'll explore key topics, illustrate them with real-world examples, and highlight practical use cases to shed light on this vital aspect of modern business.

In the world of high-scale, high-availability, high-performance web applications, mistakes in IT operations are inevitable. Systems fail, bugs slip through, and outages occur. Your team's approach to responding to these incidents significantly impacts their overall productivity, morale, and effectiveness. Company culture, such as that associated with a blameless culture, is crucial to driving the behaviors that make your business a success.

The Ping command is an essential tool in network diagnostics, crucial for checking connectivity, solving problems, and measuring network performance. In the complex world of digital communication, where connections stretch across long distances and pass through many devices, knowing how to use the Ping command is extremely important. In this detailed exploration, we will examine the Ping command thoroughly, exploring its uses, and highlighting its importance in keeping networks strong and reliable.

We are excited to announce our bidirectional integration between ServiceNow and Squadcast, designed to elevate your Incident Management capabilities. ServiceNow provides a robust platform-as-a-service, delivering advanced automation and process workflow tailored for enterprise environments. Through this integration, you can harness ServiceNow's workflow and ticketing features alongside Squadcast's strong On-Call scheduling and SRE-driven incident response capabilities.

At Rootly, we're integrating AI into incident management with a keen eye on privacy. It's not just about tapping into AI's potential; it's about ensuring we respect and protect our customers’ privacy and sensitive data. Here's a quick overview of how we're blending innovation with strong privacy commitments.

One area where communication breakdowns commonly occur is between helpdesk / IT teams / SREs and database administrators (DBAs), especially when troubleshooting application problems associated with databases. Smooth communication between different teams is key to resolving application performance issues efficiently and speedily. However, it is usually inappropriate for helpdesk staff to have access to the database monitoring privileges and tools used by DB administrators.

Setting up OpenCost with Levitate to monitor the cost of Kubernetes clusters.

Navigating an extensive excel sheet to determine On-Call schedules and vacation plans can be daunting. The struggle of maintaining On-Call Schedules manually is real. But we've got a solution that can help. This blog addresses the challenges associated with manualOn Call Scheduling processes.

Understanding SRE metrics and how they impact your platform's availability are fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering. How available is your website, service, or platform? What must you monitor and measure to ensure availability? How do you translate uptime into availability? This chart has numbers that every Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) should know.

If you’re an SRE, then you already know your SLOs from your SLAs, not to mention your SLIs. But even if you’re not au fait with those acronyms, you’ll soon discover how widespread and applicable these concepts are in this installment of our IPM Best Practices Series. We’ll explore these concepts in detail and explore how external monitoring can enhance the tracking of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), leading to positive user experiences and informed decision-making.

Critical information during Incident Management includes the incident's nature, impact, urgency, affected systems, and current status, enabling efficient resolution. Yet, the excessive details in incident notifications frequently hinders rather than aiding the process.

Whether you're a system administrator, a developer, or any other DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional, you know that staying ahead in cloud-native computing is crucial. One way to keep your competitive edge in the technology game is to embrace the benefits of eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). On top of advances in security and networking, eBPF-based tools are particularly impacting the observability landscape.

Alert fatigue is a state of exhaustion caused by receiving too many alerts. This can happen when the alerts are not actionable, are irrelevant or too frequent. Misconfigurations or configurations with the wrong assumptions or that lack Service-level objectives (SLOs) can have a dual impact, leading to alert fatigue and, more alarmingly, the potential of overlooking critical alerts We spoke with more than 200 teams using Prometheus Alertmanager. Many face alert fatigue from trivial, nonactionable alerts.

If you’re reading the Blameless blog, you probably have a good idea of how important reliability is to your customers’ happiness, your business’s bottom line, and your overall sanity. Unfortunately, this perspective is frequently downplayed by management. Even if they understand the importance of reliability, they often see it as something that should emerge automatically from having the right mindset, and not something that requires investment.