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What does a DevOps Engineer do? We analyzed 29 job postings to find out.

Introduction As all companies become software driven, DevOps is becoming an important practice in enterprises and startups across the world. DevOps is about bringing velocity to delivering tech products and services, so you can delight customers and meet business goals. To achieve this velocity, development (dev) and operations (ops) teams work closely together across the software lifecycle - from planning to release. And this has led to a new role in engineering teams - DevOps Engineer.

How they SRE: Insights from the Cloudflare SRE team

Cloudflare is a global cloud services provider that is based all over the globe, from San Francisco, US to London, England to Sydney, Australia. Their mission, as stated front and center on their homepage, is to help build a better Internet. While that may read like hyperbole, their numbers are impressive - Cloudflare has over 126,000 paying customers and 95% of Internet Users in the developed world are within 50ms of their network.

What is expected in the SRE role? We analyzed 30 job postings to find out.

In 2016, Google released the definitive book on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - a practice that had originated in the company to take care of a monumental problem - how to keep the Google services running with high reliability. Over the years, SRE has been widely adopted by dev teams across the globe and is a popular role at startups and enterprises alike. Here is a look at how search for SRE has trended over the years.

New feature: Templates for Incident Management

At Spike.sh , we are obsessed with making incident management more accessible to dev teams everywhere. With this goal in mind, we are always looking for ways to reduce the friction while setting up the Spike.sh platform. When we saw customers asking our advice for creating effective on-call schedules and escalations, we knew we had to do more than just good documentation - we needed a way to share best practices with our customers in the product itself.

Introducing the Spike.sh Alert Reliability Engine

At Spike.sh, our mission is to help dev teams understand and resolve production issues faster. At the core of this is our Alert Reliability Engine, whose job is to make sure that a team member always gets an alert on their preferred channel. Currently, we support 7 channels - phone call, SMS, mobile push notifications, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord. We wanted to give you a peek into how we achieve high deliverability across these channels.

A guide to website uptime monitoring with UptimeRobot

Your website is your primary storefront on the internet and any website issues can lead to customer dissatisfaction and lost business. Which is why it is important to monitor your website to make sure that it is working properly. In this guide, we will learn how to set up website uptime monitoring with UptimeRobot.