Analyzing SRE Job Postings - From Amazon to Microsoft
An analysis of SRE job descriptions from 4 companies highlights what businesses actually expect SREs to do.
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Cloud Technology Adoption Trends
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,.
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Five Ways Developers Can Help SREs
Reliability is a team game. More the collaboration between Developers and SREs, greater will be the success of the product. In this blog, we have listed down the five best practices that developers can adopt, to make the SRE's life easier. It is not easy to be a site reliability engineer. Monitoring system infrastructure and aligning them with the key reliability metrics is quite a daunting task. Whereas, a software engineer's job is to deliver high-quality software.
A Primer on the History and Evolution of Incident Management to Today
Many of the concepts SREs take for granted about incident management originated with efforts to fight fires in California in the 1970s.
The Business Case for Observability and Site Reliability Engineering
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.
Implementing SRE at the largest online retailer of NL and Belgium w/ Bart Enkelaar (bol.com) | EP #5
For the fifth episode of the StackPod, we invited Bart Enkelaar. Bart is a lead SRE at the largest online retailing platform in the Netherlands and Belgium: bol.com. He's been a backend engineer for 13 years and is now responsible for setting up site reliability engineering across more than a hundred DevOps teams. In this episode, Bart and Anthony talk about.
Top 5 Incidents and Outages of 2021
An overview of major IT incidents and outages in 2021
The Importance of Observability for the SRE
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.
What Log4j Vulnerability Means for SREs?
A summary of the Log4j vulnerability, and key takeaways for SREs.
Squadcast + Amazon EventBridge: Routing Alerts Made Easy
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.