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What is MTTR and How Does It Impact Your Bottom Line?

Mean time to repair (MTTR), sometimes referred to as mean time to resolution, is a popular DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) team metric. MTTR identifies the overall availability and disaster recovery aspects of your IT assets or application workloads. The acronym MTTR can cause some confusion since it has different meanings across different industries. Sometimes, MTTR refers to mean time to respond: the amount of time needed to react to a problem.

What Is DevOps Observability and Why Is It Critical for Modern Organizations?

Observability refers to the ability of the DevOps team to track, monitor, and measure the state of their pipeline and operations. Without observability, you are working in the dark, unaware of what is working. With the growing complexity of modern IT systems, DevOps observability is no longer optional. Gartner estimates that by 2026, 50% of enterprises implementing distributed data architectures will have adopted data observability tools, up from less than 20% in 2024.

Essential Guide to Building an Effective AIOps Strategy

We often hear about the many benefits AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) brings to businesses. But how can you develop an effective AIOps strategy? Where do you even start? What are the best practices or implementation challenges? These and many more questions must be answered before beginning your AIOps journey. In this guide, we will explore the steps for creating an effective AIOps strategy and discuss crucial components, obstacles, and best practices for successful implementation.

The Rise of ServiceOps: Unifying IT Service Delivery

With the complex and steadfast growth of IT service delivery processes, organizations and their internal teams have come to rely on several tools in their toolbox to deliver best-in-class products and services. The use of AIOps, AI/ML, and overall automation has shaped modern delivery methods, but what we call this process, and how we grow to advance it, has yet to find a definition that’s universally recognized.

8 Future DevOps Trends In 2025 - Learn How To Stay Competitive

What is the future of software development and deployment? DevOps processes have helped take developers and operations folks out of their silos and share responsibilities. But is it enough to succeed long term? Many companies have yet to embrace DevOps completely across their teams. Clearly, the culture of sharing tools, a key aspect of DevOps, is not enough.

The Ultimate Guide for Enterprise DevOps

Speed and reliability in incident management have always been the formula for many businesses’ success. But what happens when this already demanding workflow needs to be done at scale? The answer is adopting enterprise DevOps methodologies to scale operations efficiently. DevOps benefits are magnified when they are correctly scaled across an entire enterprise. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore enterprise DevOps’s fundamental principles, challenges, and components.

Understanding & Automating DevOps Processes and Let Go (A Little)

As the demand for instant innovation and real-time delivery of mission-critical processes continues to grow, your organization risks falling behind if it can’t adapt to an automation-centric strategy. To succeed, managers must loosen the reins and enable teams to automate DevOps processes. Automating DevOps processes is not an all-or-nothing decision, and implementing automation processes can let teams adapt to the changing environment and let go, little by little.

DevOps Best Practices to Transform Your Development Process

Businesses are under constant pressure to deliver software faster and more reliably. Yet, the real challenge lies in maintaining quality standards without sacrificing speed. Traditional software development methods often lead to silos between teams, slower release cycles, and more frequent errors. These inefficiencies impact the speed of software delivery, risk system downtime, and customer satisfaction. The solution? Implementing DevOps best practices.

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