Who should define Reliability — Engineering, or Product?
Whoever owns Reliability should define its parameters. But who owns the Reliability of a Product? Engineering? Product Management? Or the Customer success team?
What do self-driving cars tell us about Site Reliability Engineering?
From Robocars to Reliability — SRE with self-driving cars; mapping out where the Observability space is in conjunction with self-driving cars
Observability—OSS vs Paid vs Managed OSS
The Reliability industry needs a managed, non-vendor lock-in answer to spiraling costs, high cardinality and the toil of managing a tsdb
Learnings integrating jmxtrans
JMX metrics give solid insights into the workings of your application. Integrating them with Levitate (our time series data warehosue) required us to jump some hoops with vmagent.
High Cardinality? No Problem! Stream Aggregation FTW
Managing high cardinality in time series data is tough but crucial. Learn how Levitate’s streaming aggregations can help tackle it efficiently.
MTTF vs MTBF vs MTTD vs MTTR
This article covers questions such as what are MTTF, MTBF, MTTD, and MTTR, their differences, how to adopt them, and their use cases.
The neglected tech arctic winter — Internal SaaS expenses
The current tech winter reveals a hard truth: spending on internal tools for tech infrastructure is bloated—and this isn't just a passing cycle.
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.
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?
