Is 99.999% uptime realistic? We cover why you should care, and how you can achieve it.

A system’s reliability is one of the most important things that engineers should care about. They ensure customers are kept happy and keep organizations profitable. Investing in reliable processes and tools to ensure systems are reliable can be critical to company success. Site Reliability platforms are popular choice when it comes to monitoring and observing software services as they help make responding to and solving application problems easier.

Mature start-ups and scale-ups create wonderful and challenging environments for Engineers. As the product they’re creating matures and the brand becomes a successful one, the user base generally starts growing, and, for some companies, in places they might not expect it to grow. As that happens, new challenges arise for Engineers. One of these challenges is pretty straightforward to guess. Basically having a particular product available throughout different regions of the world.

Alert fatigue occurs when people become desensitized to the overwhelming number of alerts they receive and are expected to respond to. Even though these alerts are typically easy to respond to, it is the sheer number of them that ultimately causes people to feel fatigued. The higher the number of alerts, the more likely it is that employees are likely to begin to ignore and potentially miss an important alert leading to bigger consequences.