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The origin of Service Level Objectives

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) dominate the software industry, but where did they come from?

Akshay Chugh Piyush Verma
Akshay Chugh, Piyush Verma
Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Learn everything about the advantages of EC2, it's use cases and how to optimize EC2 further.

Jayesh Bapu Ahire Akshay Chugh
Jayesh Bapu Ahire, Akshay Chugh
Deployment Readiness Checklists

Deployment Readiness Checklists

A ready checklist of a comprehensive list of steps and activities involved in the deployment of your application.

Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki

The most interesting talks from SRECon 2021!

SRECon, hosted by USENIX, focuses on site reliability and systems engineering at scale. Discover highlights from the most interesting talks at SRECon 2021.

Akshay Chugh
Akshay Chugh
Doing SRE the Right Way!

Doing SRE the Right Way!

A well-thought-out approach to SRE, which will help site reliability engineers and software engineers develop and maintain a useful, consistent, and effective SRE strategy for their products!

Piyush Verma
Piyush Verma
Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

Getting the big picture with Log Analysis

How to get the most out of your logs!

Jayesh Bapu Ahire
Jayesh Bapu Ahire
Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies

Akshay Chugh Jayesh Bapu Ahire
Akshay Chugh, Jayesh Bapu Ahire
SLOs eased

SLOs eased

You can either love running or hate running, but you will definitely love this analogy - take a fresh look at SLOs!

Piyush Verma Saurabh Hirani
Piyush Verma, Saurabh Hirani
Latency SLO

Latency SLO

How do you set latency-based alerts? A common approach is 95% of requests completed in 350ms, but is it really that simple?

Piyush Verma
Piyush Verma