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Why and How SREs Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Why and How SREs Can Benefit from Feature Flags

An overview of how SREs can benefit from feature flags to improve reliability.

Weihan Li

Weihan Li

February 18, 2022
4 min read
Top 9 Skills for SREs from ex-Instacart SRE

Top 9 Skills for SREs from ex-Instacart SRE

A list of the top nine SRE skills, from incident management, to cloud computing, to networking and beyond.

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

February 11, 2022
4 min read
Importance of Good Incident Communication

Importance of Good Incident Communication

From alerting to during to post incident, great communication is the key to effective incident response.

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

February 4, 2022
6 min read
Analyzing SRE Job Postings - From Amazon to Microsoft

Analyzing SRE Job Postings - From Amazon to Microsoft

An analysis of SRE job descriptions from 4 companies highlights what businesses actually expect SREs to do.

JP Cheung

JP Cheung

January 28, 2022
4 min read
A Primer on the History and Evolution of Incident Management to Today

A Primer on the History and Evolution of Incident Management to Today

Many of the concepts SREs take for granted about incident management originated with efforts to fight fires in California in the 1970s.

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

January 21, 2022
4 min read
Top 5 Incidents and Outages of 2021

Top 5 Incidents and Outages of 2021

An overview of major IT incidents and outages in 2021

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

January 14, 2022
4 min read
What Log4j Vulnerability Means for SREs?

What Log4j Vulnerability Means for SREs?

A summary of the Log4j vulnerability, and key takeaways for SREs.

Weihan Li

Weihan Li

January 7, 2022
4 min read
A Site Reliability Engineer’s Guide to the Holiday Season

A Site Reliability Engineer’s Guide to the Holiday Season

SREs face special challenges during the holidays. Here’s how to manage them.

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

December 17, 2021
4 min read
Practical Guide to SRE: Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Practical Guide to SRE: Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

An overview of how SREs can benefit from Infrastructure-as-Code.

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

December 10, 2021
4 min read