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The reliability of data is crucial when managing files in the cloud, especially for businesses, enterprises, and even the data reliability of your own personal files. In this article, we’ll cover everything about data reliability: what it is, why it’s important, assessing the reliability of data, and cloud storage solutions to keep your data protected, accurate, and complete.

The first minutes of an incident are spent asking questions a monitoring tool can answer but rarely in the form you asked them: which servers are in trouble right now, is it the same thing as last night, what did memory do on the web servers before it started? Each answer is a few clicks away, on a different page.

This September, we hosted a few of our customers at the ilert headquarters in Cologne. The plan was to share where we're heading, have real-life conversations, and give them more room to ask us questions and share their thoughts. ‍ One part of the day was a discussion about on-call culture with some of the greatest minds in SRE (source: they chose ilert as their incident management tool). We asked our customers: what are your top practices for on-call?

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The best failover solution keeps your application serving users from another location without a manual cutover. The strongest approach is active-active across two or more locations, where every location already serves live traffic, rather than restoring from backups after an outage.

Two teams, same company, same platform, same quarter. Team A ships to production three times a day. Their environments are defined in code, provisioned the same way every time, and a new engineer can get a working setup before lunch. Team B ships once every two weeks, if the release window holds. Their staging environment has diverged from production in ways nobody fully remembers approving. Getting a new engineer set up takes a week of Slack messages to whoever still remembers how it was done last time.

Say you want to build an agent that resolves support tickets against your own data. Not a demo against a toy dataset, an agent that actually runs in production. The agent itself is maybe a day of work.