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Does Every Incident Need a Retrospective? Here's What the Experts Have to Say

Every quarter, we host a roundtable discussion centered around the challenges encountered by incident responders at the world’s leading organizations. These discussions are lightly facilitated and vendor-agnostic, with a carefully curated group of experts. Everyone brings their own unique perspective and experience to the group as we dive deep into the real-world challenges incident responders are facing today.

SLOs with Prometheus done wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, then right

We have Carson Anderson, Sr. DevOps Engineer at Weave HQ, talking about how they implemented SLOs using Prometheus, what went wrong, and how they fixed it. This talk was given at "Last9 of Reliability" Discord community on 13th December. Talk Description: First thing's first: Yes, it really did take us 5 tries to implement our SLOs with Prometheus. While that may seem embarrassing, we are very happy to be able to share our SLO journey so that we can hopefully help you avoid the same mistakes.

Lessons in Incident Response I Learned While Waiting Tables

Before I stumbled into the tech industry (a story for another day), I spent several years in the customer service world as a server and front-of-house manager in restaurants. It was in these jobs that I first honed some critical skills that would later lead me on the path to incident response.