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 ..
Top 4 Best Practices for a Risk Aware Culture
A risk-averse business or engineering culture can slow down delivery of products and cost business opportunities. Using risk management ..
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, ..
Top 5 Benefits of a Site Reliability Platform
One of the most important aspects of a software system is its reliability — and for good reason. With so many digital options available ..
Risk-Aware vs Risk-Averse Product Development
When organizations adopt Agile development practices, they also adopt shorter release cycles. These shorter release cycles mean more frequent ..
The SRE Role and Why It’s In Such High Demand
In the current IT market, one of the hottest job roles is the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). In January 2019, according to LinkedIn, ..
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 ..
The History, Evolution, and Future of Modern IT
Modern IT has changed enormously over the last few decades and created a plethora of new opportunities for individuals and businesses. In the process, ..
Top 12 Best Practices for Better Postmortems
Poorly implemented postmortems can be painful for everyone involved; they cost money, and worse yet, they can fail to address the root cause ..