SRE vs. SWE: A Modern Comparison
Traditionally, the first key question that coders had to answer as they charted their career paths was whether they wanted to be a software ..
Generic Mitigations in Site Reliability Engineering
In incident response, every problem is unique. But that doesn’t mean that every problem requires a unique response. On the contrary, ..
6 Development Insights to Empower IT Teams
DevOps has transformed the way we think about the roles of the IT team. Now, IT engineers don’t just maintain software post-deployment. ..
5 Effective Ways Developers Can Support IT
Being a developer once meant writing code, possibly testing and building it, and then calling it a day. In the era of DevOps, however, the work ..
Kubernetes Deprecates Docker: What It Means
In one of the most momentous changes to hit the container ecosystem in years, Kubernetes announced in December 2020 that it will be killing ..
Why AI DevOps Is the Next Frontier in the DevOps Revolution
The DevOps concept is now more than a decade old, but it continues to evolve. For proof, look no further than AI DevOps, a new subfield ..
5 Tips for a Faster Incident Response Process
If you work in IT Ops, SRE, or DevOps, you don’t need to be told that every second counts in incident response. You already know that. ..
IT Crisis Management: Near-Term Strategies for Long-Term Success
At the outset, the COVID-19 crisis was a boon for some project management offices (PMOs), and a disaster for others. If your PMO was lucky ..
5 Hours to 5 Minutes: Using Shift-Right Techniques to Improve Feedback Cycles
Software engineers are constantly moving jobs, and part of that has to do with the fact that they’re being tasked with meeting unrealistic ..
Understanding the Differences between Workflow Management and Incident Response
If you work in IT, development, or DevOps, it can be easy to feel like everything you do is incident response. You constantly face issues ..