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Why Your Reliability Problems are Really Traffic Problems
We all want a reliable service, and we've all heard things like "circuit breaking", "throttling", and "traffic management" will help. But what do these things really mean, and how do they make our systems reliable as they scale?
May 17, 2023
A Visit From the Ghosts of Failure Past, Present, and Future
Unlike poetry, learning from incidents is rarely done by rote, but in this case we'll make an exception.
January 10, 2023
What does an SRE do?
Are you a software engineering director in charge of some Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) and wondering what they’re doing - or should do? Then read on!
January 10, 2023
Why Health Checks are Like Sidewalks
What could be simpler than a health check endpoint that just returns a HTTP 200 when called? But health checks aren’t simple at all. Health checks are a critical signal in orchestration systems, and when things go wrong, they can cause havoc.
January 10, 2023
SRE in Stormy Weather.
What do you do when the graph doesn't go up and to the right? Welcome to the doldrums. SREing in challenging times, from Tiarnán
November 30, 2022
Should we apologize for the Site Reliability Engineering book?
The SRE Book did a lot of things. Were enough of them good?
November 23, 2022
Incidents and Accidents
Maybe every incident isn't a unique snowflake, and maybe that's ok.
November 16, 2022
SREcon EMEA 2022 Reflections
Niall reflects on his first time as co-chair of SREcon Europe.
November 15, 2022
Organizations and technical Jenga
Systems are held together by the teams and human beings supporting them. What happens when that's suddenly disrupted?
November 14, 2022
SaaStock 2022
Our intrepid reporter plunges into the mix of founders, investors and sales that was SaaStock.
November 14, 2022
Effective Alerting Strategies
Wondering how to handle an overwhelming amount of alerts? Not sure where to start to get them cleaned up? Some tips from Tiarnán.
November 14, 2022
Nodeconf EU Reflections
We’re not so different, you and I: When an SRE visits a JavaScript conference.
October 31, 2022
What’s Still Hard about Software Operations in 2022?
In 2022 we have tools we couldn’t have dreamed of ten years ago, but despite all these tools and services, most organizations running large production software systems still experience challenges.
October 11, 2022
Introducing Stanza
Learn about Stanza - why we formed the company and what we are looking forward to doing.
October 11, 2022