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What Is Denormalized Data?

Apr 17, 2024 By Anjali Udasi In Zenduty
Traditional database design prioritizes data integrity through normalization. However, for read-heavy workloads, normalized data structures can lead to complex queries and slower performance. Denormalization offers an alternative approach to optimize query execution and improve efficiency. A study concluded that denormalization can improve query performance when implemented with a thorough understanding of application requirements.
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squadcast

Squadcast Ranks in the Top 10 Incident Management Tools Report by G2

Apr 12, 2024 By Sanjog Sandhu In Squadcast
Reaching the top 10 tools in the Incident Management category marks an important milestone for Squadcast. This accomplishment underscores our commitment to actively incorporate customer feedback into our product development process and vision. From the outset, our objective has been to design a platform that streamlines Incident Response workflows by integrating On-Call Management, Incident Response, SRE, AIOps, and Automation into one cohesive system.
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Streamline Incident Resolution with Squadcast's Outgoing Webhooks

Apr 12, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast
Incident responders often find themselves under pressure to resolve issues quickly and efficiently. Once the alert comes in and the incident resolution starts, the actions taken in the next few minutes can make all the difference. Essential actions involve collaborating with team members and invoking specialized scripts for common issues like disk space shortages or server restarts.
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opsmatters

PagerDuty Alternatives: Which is the Best for Your Team?

Apr 12, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
PagerDuty is an incident management platform that uses its SaaS-based operations to prevent and manage business-related problems while maintaining a smooth customer experience. Used by developers, IT persons, and DevOps, PagerDuty ensures that businesses get the required data that could help them manage events that can impact their brand reputation and revenue. Their business-wide incident response, hundreds of integration tools, machine learning, on-call scheduling, and escalations make PagerDuty a popular incident management platform.
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blameless

The real cost of a blameful culture

Apr 10, 2024 By Lee Atchison In Blameless
In the fast-paced world of IT operations, the culture permeating an organization is critical to its success. It drives behavior, efficiency, and organizational accomplishment. A blame-centric culture is particularly detrimental, creating an environment where finger-pointing is more important than problem-solving and fear reduces innovation. This negative culture damages individual morale and erodes the organization's collective resilience.
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checkly

An SRE's Most Important Skill? Communication

Apr 3, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
I wish someone had told me that I shouldn’t hop between frameworks. Just like learning four programming languages in your first year, in my experience spending time content switching as a beginner is wasted effort. If I’d spent a solid year learning how to deploy services on AWS, then when it was time to learn Azure, I’d see more similarities than differences and find it a lot easier to pick up a second public cloud.
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rootly

How Incidents Foster Leadership

Apr 3, 2024 By Zhuang (Strong) Liang In Rootly
To become battle-tested, you need to go through battles, not just read books or mentor newcomers. Both are helpful but the stakes are low. On the other hand, high stake jobs, such as running a big project or managing a team, are hard to get when you lack experience. So how can we solve this dilemma? Enter incident response.
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catchpoint

2024 SRE Report Insights: The Critical Role of Third-Party Monitoring in SRE

Apr 2, 2024 By Denton Chikura In Catchpoint
The 2024 SRE Report highlights a pivotal shift in how organizations approach the reliability and monitoring of their services, especially those that extend beyond their direct control. According to the report, 64% of organizations now recognize the importance of monitoring productivity or experience-disrupting endpoints, even beyond their physical control.
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