Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipWhat is your dashboard?One of the primary tenets of SRE are the concepts of operational intelligence — being able to make sense of what is happening in real time…Jan 8Jan 8
Hostile Forks — It’s All About The MoneyTo be clear, these are my personal opinions and do not represent the viewpoints of my current or former employers.Apr 18, 20241Apr 18, 20241
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipSteel Threads — Turning Site Reliability Upside DownWhen most of us think about SRE, we think about hiring individual contributors who will help software engineers deliver more resilient…Feb 13, 20242Feb 13, 20242
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipHow To Measure MTTx ValuesHat tip to fellow Facebook Production Engineering alum Amin Astaneh for reviewing this article and providing his feedback.Jan 12, 2024Jan 12, 2024
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipThe Domain of FailureAs a software engineer, I was always interested in resilience and how we could build better software, and I think it was a big driver in…Aug 3, 2023Aug 3, 2023
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipThe Single Pain of GlassHow do we create better dashboards?Apr 22, 20231Apr 22, 20231
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipShifting Security More LeftThe idea of DevSecOps has existed for some time, where engineers are expected to incorporate security concerns at the time of development…Mar 24, 2023Mar 24, 2023
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipShared On-Call Is Where the SRE Magic HappensTL;DR — Software engineers and SREs should share a single on-call rotation as part of a single team, as this is where empathy for each…Jan 3, 20231Jan 3, 20231
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipSRE and ProductAs Site Reliability Engineers and leaders, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details of what we’re doing — are we releasing fast enough…Jul 10, 20221Jul 10, 20221
Published inSite Reliability Engineering LeadershipExecutive Mandates, Visions and Strategies for SREI expect that someone has captured this concept into a formal business leadership process, but I’ve yet to run across it. Every executive…Jun 13, 2022Jun 13, 2022