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Recap of SRECon Americas 2023

Recap of SRECon Americas 2023

SRECon is a conference hosted by USENIX and is focused on site reliability, distributed systems, and systems engineering at scale. A Recap of SRECon Americas 2023.

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What does "Cricket scale" mean for a Site Reliability Engineer?

Understanding “Cricket Scale”

How does a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer plan for "Cricket scale"? How do you warm systems' about to witness 30+ million concurrent users?

Aniket Rao
Aniket Rao

What is MTBI?

Everything you need to know about Mean Time Between Incidents (MTBI) and how it can help Site Reliability Engineers

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Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Reliability Engineering for Dummies: ELI5

Explaining Reliability Engineering to a 5-year-old.

Mohan Dutt Parashar
Mohan Dutt Parashar
Difference between SLA Vs SLO

SLA vs SLO vs SLI - What's the difference

SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs—what’s the difference? For DevOps folks, understanding these nuances is key. Here's a quick guide to each term.

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Do your alerting tools improve outcomes for Business?

Rethinking Anomaly Detection: Focus on business outcomes

From the trenches at Games24x7 — Sanjay, on how Reliability engineering should drive core business metrics

Sanjay Singh
Sanjay Singh
Interesting talks on Observability from Fosdem 2023

Interesting talks on Observability from Fosdem 2023

A recap of the talks from the Observability and Monitoring dev room at Fosdem 2023.

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki

Comparing Popular Service Mesh Offerings

An in-depth look at several service mesh offerings and comparison based on their features, licensing and pricing, architecture, and user experience.

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Prometheus Monitoring

Prometheus Monitoring

Prometheus is a popular open-source monitoring system. In this blog, we'll cover the basics of Prometheus monitoring, including its architecture, key features, and alternatives.

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