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The latest News and Information on Service Reliability Engineering and related technologies.

Managing Squadcast resources with our expanded Terraform provider

Hey folks! We’re excited to announce that we’ve vastly expanded the capabilities of our Terraform provider. Previously, our Terraform provider was limited to creating and managing services as a resource. We have now covered the entire spectrum of resources available on Squadcast right from creating and managing users, escalation policies and also managing SLO’s via our Terraform provider. What does that mean for you?

Blameless Expands Microsoft Partnership to Deliver Faster, More Intuitive Incident Response Collaboration

At Blameless, the world’s leading software engineering teams rely on us during incident management. A key part of our offering is the ability to seamlessly integrate with a customer’s unique tech stack. As such, we value partnerships with companies like Microsoft that enhance our user experience and meet the needs of our customers. We understand how essential it is to integrate with communication tools like Microsoft Teams, because it’s the first place a user goes to start an incident.

SRE vs DevOps: Can they coexist or do they compete?

Systems fail, sometimes publicly and at great cost. Airlines have experienced system-wide ticketing outages, causing hundreds of flight cancellations and significant inconvenience to customers. Retailers have experienced website crashes on the busiest shopping days of the year, costing millions in lost revenue and customer goodwill. It is vital to understand both DevOps and SRE and the roles they play in preventing such outages.

Using Observability with Kubernetes to Automate Site Reliability Engineering

In this video, Anthony Evans, solution architect, explains how the StackState topology-powered observability platform can help SREs to automate site reliability, putting their organizations on the path to becoming a zero-downtime enterprise. See how StackState helps to unify and correlate data across your stack, visualize your entire IT environment, instantly pinpoint root cause, reduce alert storms and with AIOps capabilities, even prevent problems proactively. It's all here!

What is a Security Operation Center and how do SOC teams work?

With the growing complexity of IT environments, it is essential to have robust security processes that can safeguard IT environments from cyber threats. In this blog, we will explore how security operation centers (SOCs), help you monitor, identify and prevent cyber threats to safeguard your IT environments. This blog covers the following pointers.

What are the four Golden Signals?

When it comes to building reliable and scalable software, few organizations have as much authority and expertise as Google. Their Site Reliability Engineering Handbook, first published in 2016, details their practices to maintain reliability as Google scaled. But when you have over a million servers running thousands of services across more than twenty data centers, how do you monitor them in a consistent, logical, and relevant way?

How to add a Golden Signal to a service in Gremlin RM

In this video, we show you how to add a Golden Signal to a service. Gremlin uses your Golden Signals to ensure your services are still healthy and responsive during reliability tests. You can configure Golden Signals to use an existing monitor in your observability tools, such as Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus. We recommend adding all four Golden Signals to each of your services to ensure comprehensive coverage.