Site Reliability Engineering Archives

4 min

Delegate Common Tasks With An Open Source Automation Tool

Rundeck is an open source software used to quickly automate manual tasks. Use it to create workflows consisting of commands, scripts, and APIs. A key precept for site reliability engineering (SRE),…

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6 min

Composite Availability: Calculating The Overall Availability Of Cloud Infrastructure

When designing cloud systems, a major consideration is reliability. As infrastructure architects, what do we want to guarantee to our customers, whether they’re internal or end users? How much time…

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5 min

Managing The Looker Ecosystem At Scale With SRE And DevOps Practices

Many organizations struggle to create data-driven cultures where each employee is empowered to make decisions based on data. This is especially true for enterprises with a variety of systems and…

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9 min

Are Your SLOs Realistic? How To Analyze Your Risks Like An SRE

Setting up Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is one of the foundational tasks of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, giving the SRE team a target against which to evaluate whether or…

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3 min

Application Observability Made Easier For Compute Engine

When IT operators and architects begin their journey with Google Cloud, Day 0 observability needs tend to focus on infrastructure and aim to address questions about resource needs, a plan…

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3 min

Quickly Troubleshoot Application Errors With Error Reporting

Are you familiar with the four golden signals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): latency, traffic, errors, and saturation? Whether you’re a developer or an operator, you’ve likely been responsible for…

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7 min

Engineering

Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Automation As A Force Multiplier

As we discussed in “Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing toil”, your Security Operations Center (SOC) can learn lessons from Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) This means that applying software engineering practices…

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4 min

Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing Toil

Almost two decades of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has proved the value of incorporating software engineering practices into traditional infrastructure and operations management. In a parallel world, we’re finding that…

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4 min

2021 Accelerate State Of DevOps Report Addresses Burnout, Team Performance

Over the past seven years, more than 32,000 professionals worldwide have taken part in the Accelerate State of DevOps reports, making it the largest and longest-running research of its kind. Year…

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Site Reliability Engineering

Delegate Common Tasks With An Open Source Automation Tool

Composite Availability: Calculating The Overall Availability Of Cloud Infrastructure

Managing The Looker Ecosystem At Scale With SRE And DevOps Practices

Are Your SLOs Realistic? How To Analyze Your Risks Like An SRE

Application Observability Made Easier For Compute Engine

Quickly Troubleshoot Application Errors With Error Reporting

Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Automation As A Force Multiplier

Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing Toil

2021 Accelerate State Of DevOps Report Addresses Burnout, Team Performance

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