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Unleashing the Change Maker Within: Secrets to Driving Change in Your Organization

Hello, Innovators! If you've ever believed in the potential for change within your organization but weren’t sure how to advocate for it, this webinar is designed with you in mind. "Unleashing the Change Maker Within: Secrets to Driving Change in Your Organization” is not just another webinar; it's a beacon for engineers, SREs, and tech enthusiasts eager to make a tangible difference in their companies.

What Is Denormalized Data?

Traditional database design prioritizes data integrity through normalization. However, for read-heavy workloads, normalized data structures can lead to complex queries and slower performance. Denormalization offers an alternative approach to optimize query execution and improve efficiency. A study concluded that denormalization can improve query performance when implemented with a thorough understanding of application requirements.

Squadcast Ranks in the Top 10 Incident Management Tools Report by G2

Reaching the top 10 tools in the Incident Management category marks an important milestone for Squadcast. This accomplishment underscores our commitment to actively incorporate customer feedback into our product development process and vision. From the outset, our objective has been to design a platform that streamlines Incident Response workflows by integrating On-Call Management, Incident Response, SRE, AIOps, and Automation into one cohesive system.

Streamline Incident Resolution with Squadcast's Outgoing Webhooks

Incident responders often find themselves under pressure to resolve issues quickly and efficiently. Once the alert comes in and the incident resolution starts, the actions taken in the next few minutes can make all the difference. Essential actions involve collaborating with team members and invoking specialized scripts for common issues like disk space shortages or server restarts.

PagerDuty Alternatives: Which is the Best for Your Team?

PagerDuty is an incident management platform that uses its SaaS-based operations to prevent and manage business-related problems while maintaining a smooth customer experience. Used by developers, IT persons, and DevOps, PagerDuty ensures that businesses get the required data that could help them manage events that can impact their brand reputation and revenue. Their business-wide incident response, hundreds of integration tools, machine learning, on-call scheduling, and escalations make PagerDuty a popular incident management platform.

The real cost of a blameful culture

In the fast-paced world of IT operations, the culture permeating an organization is critical to its success. It drives behavior, efficiency, and organizational accomplishment. A blame-centric culture is particularly detrimental, creating an environment where finger-pointing is more important than problem-solving and fear reduces innovation. This negative culture damages individual morale and erodes the organization's collective resilience.

Datadog on Site Reliability Engineering #shorts #datadog #observability

There are many different ways to implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). From team structures to roles and responsibilities to planning and prioritization flows, there’s no golden path for how to organize things. As Datadog has shifted from a startup to a quickly-growing public company, we’ve seen our own SRE practice evolve. With over 22,000 customers sending trillions of data points each day, keeping Datadog reliable is critical to our business.

An SRE's Most Important Skill? Communication

I wish someone had told me that I shouldn’t hop between frameworks. Just like learning four programming languages in your first year, in my experience spending time content switching as a beginner is wasted effort. If I’d spent a solid year learning how to deploy services on AWS, then when it was time to learn Azure, I’d see more similarities than differences and find it a lot easier to pick up a second public cloud.