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How to SRE without an SRE on your team

Are terms like “Error budgets” and SLOs roadblocks on your way to adopting SRE practices for your organisation? Our latest blog talks of "How to SRE without an SRE on your team", where we look at some of the most elementary SRE concepts that you can start implementing right away! We help you pick SLOs, identify toil and touch base on Automation for SREs along with few best practices to get you started on your SRE journey.

Kubernetes Master Class - Cluster Monitoring in Rancher 2.5

With Rancher 2.5, the integrated Monitoring and Alerting system has been improved significantly and is now much more powerful and flexible. It is easier than ever to scrape your own workloads with Prometheus, to create custom dashboards in Grafana and to configure alerts and notification channels to your liking. In this Master Class, Rancher Field Engineer Bastian Hofmann will discuss these improvements and demo how you can customize the whole monitoring system to fit your needs.

Looking for a Successful Digital Transformation Journey?

To hit the expected value mark of your enterprise #digitaltransformation journey you need to keep #planning #preperation and #execution at the best inline. Studies show 70% of enterprises are failing to meet the goals on their digital transformation journey. Only 30% are succeeding to hit the key marks and metrics. The very reason this such a huge failure rate is the lack of a few key factors. Watch this video and get your #digitaltransformationjourney rightly aligned.

Embedded Linux for teams

A Linux kernel for each developer team, which uses it to bring up target boards. Bespoke, built, issued, and maintained over years by the vendor. Teams that focus on building great apps, rather than figuring out hardware dependencies. Happy developers that bootstrap smart devices in no time. This is what highly productive embedded systems development should look like. Let’s unpack that vision.

Solving financial services regulatory challenges in Australia with Puppet

The recent record-breaking fine of $1.3 billion for money-laundering breaches exposed the dangers of poor systems in the banking industry. Now is the time to get compliance right. In my role, I regularly speak with FS&I clients about their security and compliance challenges, including vulnerability remediation. It’s a complex topic with many pieces that must coalesce to create a holistic solution.

Devops 101:introduction To Package Management

When you’re new to an industry, you encounter a lot of new concepts. We tend to use a lot of jargon, the documentation may be written for someone more experienced in mind or rely on contextual knowledge of the rest of the space, and it often doesn’t explain the “why” for the tool. This can make it really difficult to get your feet underneath you in an unfamiliar landscape, especially for junior engineers.

Datadog's AWS re:Invent 2020 guide

In Q4 of every year since 2012, AWS has flooded the Las Vegas strip with thousands of AWS staff, partners, and customers for a week of keynote sessions, announcements, workshops, and more. In a year like no other, we’re gearing up for a re:Invent like no other! As a long-time AWS partner, we look forward to re:Invent every year. We enjoy meeting you face to face, sharing the latest in monitoring and security, and learning a thing or two in the process.

Embracing virtual connections at AWS re:Invent 2020

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. This year has seen a complete re-imagining of tech conferences. Some were cancelled or postponed, while others have evolved and embraced the opportunity to go virtual. This meant innovating to bring the in-person event experience online.

Deployment Rollbacks via FireHydrant Runbook

FireHydrant has a sophisticated set of response actions for coordinating communications, activities, and retrospectives for incidents that affect your services. Relay helps by automating remediations that involve orchestrating actions across your infrastructure. In this example workflow, an incident that affects an application deployed on Kubernetes can trigger a rollback to a previous version automatically.