Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become an emergent niche practice invented at Google to become a foundation of contemporary enterprise performance worldwide. With the continued growth of microservices, a multi-cloud infrastructure and continuous deployment pipelines adopted by organizations, the operational surface area has increased to the extent that human personnel cannot monitor and manage it in real time. The effectiveness […]
Anatomy of an Outage: Our AWS AutoScaling Group “Helping” Hand Pushed us off the Cliff
An AWS us-east-1 outage exposed how automation can backfire. Learn why autoscaling failed, how pinning ASGs saved uptime, and what to do in future outages.
A Modern Approach to Multi-Signal Optimization
How multi-signal optimization and metric classification help DevOps and turn telemetry chaos into actionable intelligence.
What Is a Cloud Operations Engineer?
CloudOps, short for cloud operations, refers to the processes, tools and strategies employed to manage, monitor and optimize the performance, security and availability of cloud-based infrastructure, applications and services. It encompasses a set of best practices and methodologies that ensure the smooth functioning of cloud environments, including resource provisioning, configuration management, automation, deployment, monitoring and […]