Shift Right Testing (Do I need it? How Is It Done?)
Curious about shift right testing? We explain what shift right is, how it’s done, how it differs from a shift left approach, and whether it is important.
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Managing Burnout | Tips To Minimize The Impact
Burnout is real. Today, the source of burnout can be anything from pandemic fatigue, to the onslaught of political divisiveness, or simply the pace of life worldwide. Whatever the culprit, we’re living in a stressful time. People working in cloud native environments definitely feel burnt out. Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen famously said, “Software is eating the world,” and that seems to be quite true. High demand is fueling churn. System and cloud operators feel pressure.
Site Reliability Chats (Apr 13, 2022)
In this episode, Julie and Jason cover recent outages of the Dutch NS trains, American Express, and the on-going, long-running incident at Atlassian. In positive news, they cover the acquisitions of Puppet by Perforce and Chaos Native by Harness, and Grafana Lab's series D funding.
The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs
To embed or not to embed: That is the question. At least, that’s one of the questions that companies have to answer as they decide how to implement Site Reliability Engineering. They can either embed SREs into existing teams, or they can build a new, separate SRE team. Both approaches have their pros and cons. The right strategy for your company or team depends, of course, on your needs and priorities.
Software Performance Testing | Types, Tools & Best Practices
Looking into software performance testing? We explain what software performance testing is, the different types, how it works, and the benefits it can have.
Automated Incident Management | Everything You Should Know
Looking into automated incident management? We explain everything you need to know about what automated incident management is, why it’s important, and how to do it.
How to use PagerDuty with Blameless
Blameless integrates with PagerDuty so you can notify teams and key stakeholders during an incident. We also help you search escalation policies and on-call rotation schedules. In this video, our Solutions Engineer walks you through navigating the initial setup and configuration in the Blameless UI. He'll then demonstrate how the integration works in real-time. If you use Slack or Microsoft Teams for internal communications, you'll also learn how to access and manage the PagerDuty integration from within those tools.
Freshdesk + Squadcast: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response for Enterprises
Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service platform used by enterprises that provides a centralized help desk(with the help of support tickets) across multiple channels, including email, phone, chat, and social media. Squadcast is an incident management platform that integrates with major monitoring, ChatOps and project management tools to provide a centralized place for reliability.
Shift Left Testing (What It Is & How To Do It)
Wondering about shift left testing? We explain what shift left testing is, how it relates to DevOps and SRE, why it’s done, and how to get started.
Site Reliability Engineering: An Imperative in Today's Enterprise IT
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is fast becoming an essential aspect of modern IT operations, particularly in highly scaled, big data environments. As businesses and industries shift to the digital and embrace new IT infrastructures and technologies to remain operational and competitive, the need for a new approach for IT teams to find and manage the balance between launching new systems and features and ensuring these are intuitive, reliable, and friendly for end users has intensified as well.