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Google SREs are changing the game again: a breakdown of their new approach

Google SREs are redefining reliability practices with STAMP, addressing the limitations of traditional models as systems scale. Their approach highlights the need for system-wide hazard analysis.

Jorge Lainfiesta

January 8, 2025

7 mins

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 5, 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.

JJ Tang

July 30, 2021

5 min read

When You Do DevSecOps, Don’t Forget the SREs

It's time to break down the silos separating SREs from security engineers.

Quentin Rousseau

July 21, 2021

5 min read

De-Siloing Incident Management: How to Make Reliability Engineering Everyone’s Job

4 best practices for breaking down silos and establishing a culture of shared responsibility toward reliability.

JJ Tang

July 15, 2021

5 min read

Rootly Announces $3.2 Million in Seed Funding from XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, & Y Combinator

Rootly is on a mission to create a world where maintaining reliability is frictionless, delightful, and accessible to anyone. Making resolving and learning from incidents every organizations superpower.

Quentin Rousseau

July 8, 2021

4 min read

The Incident Review: 4 Incidents in Outer Space

From network problems to computer failures, a variety of incidents can disrupt operations for systems in outer space.

JJ Tang

July 6, 2021

4 min read

7 Essential Tools for SREs

From chaos engineering to monitoring and beyond, SREs rely on several key types of tools to do their jobs.

Quentin Rousseau

June 25, 2021

5 min read

Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels

Incident severity levels are a measurement of the impact an incident has on the business. Classifying the severity of an issue is critical to decide how quickly and efficiently problems get resolved.

Quentin Rousseau

June 17, 2021

4 min read