From cargo-culting Google’s playbook to rushing AI-powered observability into production before the fundamentals are in place, here’s where SRE transformations quietly go wrong, and how to course-correct.
Building Catchpoint Into CI/CD Pipelines
Catchpoint’s value proposition is simple to understand. It monitors website and application performance beyond your own infrastructure to provide a “user’s-eye view.”
Driving DevOps Excellence: Implementing SLOs for Your DevOps Team
Here’s how adding SLOs to your DevOps team can improve productivity, dependability and client happiness.
Black Box SLIs
This article is a preview of a talk by Stephan Lips for SLOconf 2023, on May 15 – 18. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. SLOs are fast becoming the industry standard to measure reliability and help teams decide when to prioritize it. The first step in […]
How IT Ops Can Exceed Service Level Objectives in Digital Transformations
The pace of change can be managed successfully by defining service level objectives and more in dev environments Mobile applications, data lakes, microservices, data visualizations, SaaS integrations, automations, IoT data streams, machine learning models—in proof of concepts, pilots and scaling production environments, for customer-facing capabilities and employee workflows—all of these technical capabilities are developed, deployed […]
Achieving Reliable Observability Part 1 – Making Cloud-Native Observability More Robust
I was having a conversation with a CxO level customer as part of an AIOps/Observability workshop, and from what I could tell, most are confused about how to properly operationalize cloud-native production environments – especially the monitoring/observability portion. Here is how the conversation went. “Andy, we are thinking about getting [vendor] to use for our […]
Nobl9 Ties Business Goals to Observability Data
Nobl9 today announced it has made available via an open public beta program a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for correlating business goals against data collected by observability tools. Unlike observability platforms that only aggregate metrics, the Nobl9 Service Level Objective (SLO) Platform applies that data to specific reliability targets defined by the business, company CEO Marcin […]
How To Build a Culture of Resilience Through Good Habits
Good habits are hard to form. I’ve been listening to the audiobook “Atomic Habits“ by James Clear on my morning runs, and something struck me. At Gremlin, along with our software, what we’re trying to promote are positive new habits for our customers. According to the author, one of the primary reasons new habits don’t […]
The SRE Pressure Cooker: Balancing Velocity Against Risk
Delivering fast, reliable digital services today is a lot like Olympian alpine skiing. These services must deftly maneuver a series of perilous passages en route to end users, all while maintaining the astounding speed we now take for granted. In an SRE’s world, those passages are today’s increasingly complex and interconnected internet infrastructure through which […]