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Verify POST Endpoint Availability With Uptime Checks

An unreliable app is no fun to use. Ensuring that users experience high levels of availability, consistency, and correctness can go a long way in establishing user trust and positive business outcomes. Over time, as new features are added to applications and modifications made to underlying web services, the ability to comprehensively monitor at the application level becomes increasingly critical. Google Cloud Monitoring’s Uptime checks is a lightweight observability tool that enables application owners to easily monitor the performance of an application’s critical user journeys. It continuously performs validations on resources to track availability, latency, and other key performance indicators.…

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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 tools in use across different teams. If you are a leader, manager, or executive focused on how your team can leverage Google’s SRE practices or wider DevOps practices, definitely you are in the right place! What do today’s enterprises or mature start-ups look like? Today large organizations are often segmented into hundreds of small teams which are often working around data in the magnitude of several petabytes and in a…

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DevOps Vs. SRE Vs. Platform Engineering? The Gaps Might Be Smaller Than You Think

Platform engineering is the new cool kid on the block that everyone wants to be friends with. However, many are still confused where this new discipline comes from and how it differentiates from more established practices like DevOps and SRE. In this article, we provide some historical context and explain how they all relate to each other. With the platform engineering movement picking up steam at an impressive pace over the last two years, there’s a lot of excitement as well as confusion around the definition of this new space and how it compares to the more established SRE and…

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Engineering

Announcing New Simple Query Options In Cloud Logging

When you’re troubleshooting an issue, finding the root cause often involves finding specific logs generated by infrastructure and application code. The faster you can find logs, the faster you can confirm or refute your hypothesis about the root cause and resolve the issue. Today, we’re pleased to announce a simpler way to find logs in Logs Explorer. Making querying even easier Over the past 2 years, we heard feedback that many users needed simple free text search to find their logs. We also heard that users wanted to build a query using the dropdown selectors. We took all that feedback…

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New Relic Announces General Availability Of New Infrastructure Monitoring Experience

New Relic (NYSE: NEWR), the observability company, announced the general availability of a new infrastructure monitoring experience to empower DevOps, SRE and ITOps teams to proactively identify and resolve issues in their public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The modernized experience allows engineers to instantly isolate bottlenecks by filtering and sorting based on golden signal conditions, analyze all related telemetry (including logs, events, alerts, network, etc.) in context, visualize blast radius with topology maps and perform historical analysis to understand cascading impacts. The experience is included as an essential part of the all-in-one New Relic One observability platform that allows engineers to get 3X+…

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Postmortems At Loon: A Guiding Force For Rapid Development

Founded by Google SRE alumni, it is no surprise that Loon’s Production Engineering/SRE team instituted a culture of blameless postmortems that became a key feature of Loon’s approach to incident response. Blameless postmortems originated as an aerospace practice in the mid-20th century, so it was particularly fitting that they came full circle to be used at a company that melded cutting edge aerospace work with the development of a communications platform and the world’s first stratospheric temporospatial software defined network. The use of postmortems became a standardizing factor across Loon’s teams— from avionics and manufacturing, to flight operations, to software…

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Ensuring Scale And Compliance Of Your Terraform Deployment With Cloud Build

Terraform is an open source Infrastructure as Code tool that is popular with platform developers building reusable cloud automation. The Terraform Provider for Google Cloud Platform continues to add support for the latest Google Cloud features, such as Anthos on GKE, and our teams continue to expand Terraform integrations including Cloud Foundation Toolkit and Terraform Validator. How do teams use Terraform on Google Cloud? While the simplest approach is to run terraform init, plan and apply directly from your terminal, it cannot be recommended for automating your production deployments. First, there is a decision on how to store your Terraform…

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Want To Supercharge Your Devops Practice? Research Says Try SRE

Reliability matters. When users can’t access your application, if it’s slow to respond, or it behaves unexpectedly, they don’t get the value that you intend to provide. That’s why at Google we like to say that reliability is the most important feature of any system. Its impact can be seen all the way to the bottom line, as downtime comes with steep costs—to revenue, to reputation, and to user loyalty. From the beginning of the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) project, we’ve recognized the importance of delivering a consistent experience to users. We measure this with the Four Key metrics—two…

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How Sabre Is Using SRE To Lead A Successful Digital Transformation

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Kenny Kon, an SRE Director at Sabre. Kenny shares about how they have been able to successfully adopt Google’s SRE framework by leveraging their partnership with Google Cloud. As a leader in the travel industry, Sabre Corporation is driving innovation in the global travel industry and developing solutions that help airlines, hotels, and travel agencies transform the traveler experience and satisfy the ever-evolving needs of its customers. In order to build these solutions, we joined forces with Google Cloud as our preferred cloud provider to accelerate our digital transformation. We chose Google because they…

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Research Reveals Organizations Struggle To Scale DevOps Despite Digital Transformation Imperative

Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) announced the findings from an independent global survey of 1,300 development and DevOps leaders, which revealed the primary challenges organizations are facing as they attempt to keep up with demand for digital innovation. The research highlighted that scaling DevOps and SRE practices is critical to accelerating the release of high-quality digital services. However, siloed teams, manual approaches, and increasingly complex tooling slow innovation and make teams more reactive than proactive, impeding their ability to drive value for the business. The 2021 global report, Deep Cloud Observability and Advanced AIOps are Key to Scaling DevOps Practices,…

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