This blog post discusses how to scale Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams effectively. It emphasizes that adding more people is not always the best solution and explores alternative methods such as utilizing SRE tools and improving processes.

The blog post highlights specific categories of SRE tools that can help teams handle more load, reduce errors and rework, eliminate certain tasks, and delegate work to other teams. It cautions against implementing these tools without a cost-benefit analysis as they can be expensive and disruptive.

When adding people to the team is necessary, the post advises on capacity planning including using data to project workload and considering the experience level of new hires. It also emphasizes the importance of building a diverse team with the right cultural fit.

This blog post discusses how IT alerting software can be overloaded with redundant notifications, making it difficult to identify and resolve critical incidents. It introduces key-based deduplication as a solution to this problem. Key-based deduplication helps group similar alerts together based on user-defined criteria, reducing alert noise and allowing IT teams to prioritize effectively. The blog also explains the difference between key-based deduplication and alert deduplication rules, and provides a step-by-step guide for setting up key-based deduplication in Squadcast, an IT alerting software platform. Finally, it highlights the benefits of using key-based deduplication, including reduced alert noise, improved prioritization, optimized resource allocation, and mitigated alert fatigue.

As developers, we all strive to keep our systems in shape. We maintain them, we review metrics and logs, and we react to alerts. We do whatever it takes to make sure that our systems do not break, especially databases that are crucial to our applications. Wouldn’t it be great if there was no need to do the maintenance at all? Would you like to just have tools that could take care of your databases and let you forget that they exist altogether? Read on how to do that.

This blog post explains what incident postmortems are and why they are important. It details the steps involved in conducting an effective incident postmortem, including creating a timeline, holding a meeting, and capturing key details. The importance of a blameless environment is emphasized. The blog post concludes by recommending resources for further reading on the topic.

This blog post explains the importance of SRE observability for building reliable systems. Observability, unlike traditional monitoring, goes beyond just checking if something is wrong. It allows SREs to understand what's happening inside a system by looking at its external outputs like metrics, traces, and logs. This data is crucial for troubleshooting, maintaining, and developing scalable systems.

The blog post also highlights the benefits of SRE observability for businesses. By understanding user satisfaction through SLOs (Service Level Objectives), businesses can make better decisions about feature development and resource allocation. Additionally, observability tools can reduce the workload for engineers by automating tasks and providing better insights into system behavior. Overall, SRE observability is essential for ensuring system reliability and business success.