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Borrowed gravity: words worth changing

Some words borrow a gravity they haven't earned, others shrink the job to its smallest piece. On "firefighting," "war room," "postmortem," and "AI SRE".

Adam Frank and Sebastian Vietz

Adam Frank and Sebastian Vietz

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Borrowed gravity: words worth changing

Monitoring Your Platform From Multiple Locations

Monitoring Your Platform From Multiple Locations

Jorge Lainfiesta

Jorge Lainfiesta

July 15, 2022

Why More Incidents Are Better

Why More Incidents Are Better

Andre King

Andre King

June 30, 2022

5 Tips If You’re the 1st SRE Hire by Instacart's First SRE

5 Tips If You’re the 1st SRE Hire by Instacart's First SRE

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

May 27, 2022

What SREs Can Learn from the Atlassian Nightmare Outage of 2022

What SREs Can Learn from the Atlassian Nightmare Outage of 2022

Weihan Li

Weihan Li

May 13, 2022

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose with Gremlin | Building Rootly with JJ Tang

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose with Gremlin | Building Rootly with JJ Tang

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

April 24, 2022

The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs

The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

April 12, 2022

SRE vs. Platform Engineering: The Key Differences, Explained

SRE vs. Platform Engineering: The Key Differences, Explained

JP Cheung

JP Cheung

March 29, 2022

What Does AIOps Mean for SREs? It’s Complicated.

What Does AIOps Mean for SREs? It’s Complicated.

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

March 11, 2022

What SREs Can Learn from Capt. Sully: When to Follow Playbooks

What SREs Can Learn from Capt. Sully: When to Follow Playbooks

Andre King

Andre King

March 4, 2022

Why and How SREs Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Why and How SREs Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Weihan Li

Weihan Li

February 18, 2022

Top 9 Skills for SREs from ex-Instacart SRE

Top 9 Skills for SREs from ex-Instacart SRE

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

February 11, 2022

Importance of Good Incident Communication

Importance of Good Incident Communication

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

February 4, 2022

Analyzing SRE Job Postings - From Amazon to Microsoft

Analyzing SRE Job Postings - From Amazon to Microsoft

JP Cheung

JP Cheung

January 28, 2022

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

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

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

January 21, 2022

Top 5 Incidents and Outages of 2021

Top 5 Incidents and Outages of 2021

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

January 14, 2022

What Log4j Vulnerability Means for SREs?

What Log4j Vulnerability Means for SREs?

Weihan Li

Weihan Li

January 7, 2022

A Site Reliability Engineer’s Guide to the Holiday Season

A Site Reliability Engineer’s Guide to the Holiday Season

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

December 17, 2021

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

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

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

December 10, 2021

Who Needs Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)?

Who Needs Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)?

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

December 3, 2021

6 Steps SREs Should Take to Prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021

6 Steps SREs Should Take to Prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

November 24, 2021

History of SRE: Why Google Invented the SRE Role

History of SRE: Why Google Invented the SRE Role

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

November 19, 2021

SRE Complete Resume Writing Guide

SRE Complete Resume Writing Guide

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

November 12, 2021

SRE vs. SWE: Similarities and Differences

SRE vs. SWE: Similarities and Differences

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

October 29, 2021

An Introduction to Incident Response Roles

An Introduction to Incident Response Roles

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

October 22, 2021

What Managed Kubernetes Service is Best for SREs?

What Managed Kubernetes Service is Best for SREs?

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

October 15, 2021

What SREs Can Learn from Facebook’s Largest Outage

What SREs Can Learn from Facebook’s Largest Outage

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

October 8, 2021

Google’s State of DevOps 2021 Report: What SREs Need to Know

Google’s State of DevOps 2021 Report: What SREs Need to Know

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

October 1, 2021

SRE vs. DevOps: What are the Differences?

SRE vs. DevOps: What are the Differences?

Mateus Gurgel

Mateus Gurgel

September 19, 2021

What is an SRE?

What is an SRE?

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

September 9, 2021

The Role of SREs in Observability

The Role of SREs in Observability

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

September 3, 2021

$You Do the Math: Reliability Issues Triggered by Math Errors$

You Do the Math: Reliability Issues Triggered by Math Errors

Mateus Gurgel

Mateus Gurgel

August 26, 2021

Making Your On-call and Incident Management Program Stick

Making Your On-call and Incident Management Program Stick

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

August 20, 2021

How to Improve Upon Google’s Four Golden Signals of Monitoring

How to Improve Upon Google’s Four Golden Signals of Monitoring

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

August 13, 2021

Incident Management Goes to the Olympics

Incident Management Goes to the Olympics

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

August 5, 2021

The Unique Reliability Engineering Requirements of Microservices

The Unique Reliability Engineering Requirements of Microservices

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

July 30, 2021

When You Do DevSecOps, Don’t Forget the SREs

When You Do DevSecOps, Don’t Forget the SREs

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

July 21, 2021

De-Siloing Incident Management: How to Make Reliability Engineering Everyone’s Job

De-Siloing Incident Management: How to Make Reliability Engineering Everyone’s Job

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

July 15, 2021

Rootly Announces $3.2 Million in Seed Funding from XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, & Y Combinator

Rootly Announces $3.2 Million in Seed Funding from XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, & Y Combinator

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

July 8, 2021

The Incident Review: 4 Incidents in Outer Space

The Incident Review: 4 Incidents in Outer Space

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

July 6, 2021

7 Essential Tools for SREs

7 Essential Tools for SREs

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

June 25, 2021

Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels

Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels

Jorge Lainfiesta

Jorge Lainfiesta

June 17, 2021

The Incident Review: 4 Times When Typos Brought Down Critical Systems

The Incident Review: 4 Times When Typos Brought Down Critical Systems

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

June 4, 2021

Incident Management vs. Incident Response - What's the Difference?

Incident Management vs. Incident Response - What's the Difference?

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

May 28, 2021

Practical Guide to SRE: Using SLOs to Increase Reliability

Practical Guide to SRE: Using SLOs to Increase Reliability

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

May 13, 2021

Practical Guide to SRE: Automating On-Call

Practical Guide to SRE: Automating On-Call

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

May 6, 2021

How Kubernetes Can Both Help and Hinder Incident Management Teams

How Kubernetes Can Both Help and Hinder Incident Management Teams

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

April 29, 2021

Creating Chaos to Achieve Reliability

Creating Chaos to Achieve Reliability

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

April 22, 2021

Should You Be an SRE or a DevOps Engineer?

Should You Be an SRE or a DevOps Engineer?

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

April 15, 2021

How Would an SRE Conduct a Postmortem on the Suez Canal Incident?

How Would an SRE Conduct a Postmortem on the Suez Canal Incident?

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

April 7, 2021

How SREs Can React to COVID-19's Impact on Incident Management

How SREs Can React to COVID-19's Impact on Incident Management

Quentin Rousseau

Quentin Rousseau

April 2, 2021