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Performing Postmortems & Postmortem Templates at Squadcast | SRE Best practices | Squadcast

Postmortems are a way to summarize the resolution for an incident once it is resolved. It is also a way for you to create a knowledge-base of failures and fixes that can be shared across your team to help build a culture of shared learning and learning from failures.

Monitor your Edgecast CDN with Datadog

Edgecast is a global network platform that provides a content delivery network (CDN) and other solutions for edge computing, application security, and over-the-top video streaming. Using Edgecast’s JavaScript-based CDN, teams can improve web performance by caching static and dynamic content with low latency and minimal overhead.

How to Measure Data Center Sustainability

Sustainability is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, topic in the data center industry today. A sustainable data center is a facility that can maintain operations at a high level of efficiency over time. It is important for data centers to be as sustainable as possible because they use a lot of resources which makes reducing their environmental impact and carbon footprint top priorities. It is also important because these facilities need to comply with corporate sustainability initiatives.

Native vs cross-platform mobile app development

In just a decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous. They facilitate communication via texting and calling, provide entertainment, enable administration, and offer utilities for their users in the form of applications. Users access these mobile applications through their app store, whether it is Apple’s App Store or the Google Play Store. Developers construct them with the smartphone’s operating system in mind. The two mainstream operating systems that are targeted are Android and iOS.

Feeling zen, finding DORA, and the policy police

We’ve had a bumper month here at incident.io HQ. We’ve welcomed 3 new joiners, celebrated two 1 year incident.io anniversaries (congrats Lisa and Lawrence!), released a whole load of exciting new features and (for those of you wondering what’s been causing the recent heatwave) we’ve redesigned our website and it is on fire 🔥 😎 Here’s a round-up of some of this month's highlights…

Updating our data stack

It’s been over 6 months since Lawrence’s excellent blog post on our data stack here at incident.io, and we thought it was about time for an update. This post runs through the tweaks we’ve made to our setup over the past 2 months and challenges we’ve found as we’ve scaled from a company of 10 people to 30, now with a 2 person data team (soon to be 3 - we’re hiring)!

20+ SysAdmin Tools You Can't Live Without

Being a system administrator is a high-level and demanding profession. Yes, we’re talking long hours (not counting overtime!), unforeseen events requiring attention, and so much troubleshooting. But not everything about SysAdmin life has to be more challenging than it needs to be. That’s why we put together this list of must-have SysAdmin tools so you can optimize your workflow and focus on critical tasks.

How to Explain Zero Trust to Your Tech Leadership: Gartner Report

Does it seem like everyone’s talking about Zero Trust? Maybe you know everything there is to know about Zero Trust, especially Zero Trust for container security. But if your Zero Trust initiatives are being met with brick walls or blank stares, maybe you need some help from Gartner®. And they’ve got just the thing to help you explain the value of Zero Trust to your leadership; It’s called Quick Answer: How to Explain Zero Trust to Technology Executives.

Terraform vs Pulumi

Terraform and Pulumi are both Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. They allow you to manage, provision, and configure your infrastructure using code, which makes it easy to automate your infrastructure deployments and manage them in a version control system. Terraform is an open source tool developed by Hashicorp. It’s popular among developers because it’s easy to use and has a wide range of community-developed plugins and integrations.