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.
10 Key Features of AI Code Assistants
Here are 10 key features to look for when choosing an AI coding assistant to help automate the tedious aspects of software development.
Evolution of Toil Identification and Mitigation – A Classic SRE Challenge
Ingo Averdunk, leading architecture and solutions for cloud service management and site reliability engineering for IBM Cloud, contributed to this article. Christine White, architect at IBM Consulting, also contributed to this article. When many people think of operations, they often associate it with manual, labor-intensive work. This is because operations traditionally encompass a wide range […]
Dynatrace Survey Surfaces DevOps Automation Gains and Challenges
Dynatrace found investments in automation have improved software quality, reduced deployment failures and decreased IT costs.
Harnessing AI for Automated and Toil-Free SRE
AI not only reduces toil but also contributes to improving system reliability, efficiency and scalability, forming a critical part of modern SRE practices.
The Now and Next of Automation
Today’s never-ending flood of data has many of us drowning in noise. And while humans are still essential for thoughtful analysis and driving action, it’s no longer possible for a human to parse gigabytes of data alone. How do you begin to filter out the noise and then understand what to do with it? How […]
Automation Relation
One thing that is absolutely true: This latest iteration of IT improvement is about automation. Whether making DevOps more automated, working on any of the various “X-as-code” movements or implementing AI, the idea is to create what one vendor portrayed as a “human-free zone.” A space where automation does everything that needs doing. And the […]
Platform Engineering: Creating a Paved Path to Reduce Developer Toil
This article is part one of a series of three on the boom in platform engineering and its role in reducing cognitive load and creating a better developer experience. Developer toil and cognitive load in the cloud-native space is real. The complexity posed by microservices, Kubernetes, and “software-defined everything” almost necessitated that ops needed to […]
DevOps Must Embrace Automation in 2023
A survey of 500 engineering and software development professionals in the U.S. suggests more DevOps teams than ever need to resolve to embrace automation at a deeper level in the new year. The survey, sponsored by Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform, found engineers spend, on average, more than 10 hours per week attempting […]
5 Tips to Consider When Introducing Infrastructure Automation
Although we discuss infrastructure automation often, the fact is that a lot of manual processes still exist throughout DevOps. Whether it’s rewriting scripts to spin up new servers, updating cloud-native policies or configuring computing environments, manual toil is an all-too-common reality. To make matters worse, engineers commonly create lengthy scripts that work in isolation but are […]