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SRE vs. DevOps: What are the Differences?

SRE and DevOps are closely related concepts, and many businesses can benefit from embracing both of them. Nonetheless, there are important distinctions between SRE and DevOps.

Mateus Gurgel

September 19 2021 · 4 min read

What is an SRE?

A comprehensive definition of SREs and Site Reliability Engineering, including what SREs do and what makes SREs different from other roles.

JJ Tang

September 09 2021 · 5 min read

The Role of SREs in Observability

Although conversation about observability often ignores SREs, SREs have a central role to play in observability success.

Quentin Rousseau

September 03 2021 · 4 min read

You Do the Math: Reliability Issues Triggered by Math Errors

Even seemingly minor math bugs in software code can have outsize consequences.

Mateus Gurgel

August 26 2021 · 5 min read

Making Your On-call and Incident Management Program Stick

Maintenance of your incident management practice is as important as creation - find out what you can do to keep your engineering organization strong and consistent year over year.

David Caudill - Director of SRE

August 20 2021 · 5 min read

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

The Four Golden Signals of monitoring and observability get a lot of things right. But they could be even better.

JJ Tang

August 13 2021 · 5 min read

Incident Management Goes to the Olympics

A look at outages and disruptions to the IT systems that power the Olympics, from 1996 to today.

Quentin Rousseau

August 05 2021 · 5 min read

The Unique Reliability Engineering Requirements of Microservices

Although the fundamental concepts of site reliability engineering are the same in any environment, SREs must adapt practices to different technologies, like microservices.