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Cricket Scale e01 — Ashutosh Agrawal

Cricket Scale e01 — Ashutosh Agrawal

Unpacking "Cricket Scale" with the person behind the scenes at JioCinema

Prathamesh Sonpatki

MTTF vs MTBF vs MTTD vs MTTR

MTTF vs MTBF vs MTTD vs MTTR

This article covers questions such as what are MTTF, MTBF, MTTD, and MTTR, their differences, how to adopt them, and their use cases.

Last9

Recap of SRECon Americas 2023

Recap of SRECon Americas 2023

SRECon is a conference hosted by USENIX and is focused on site reliability, distributed systems, and systems engineering at scale. A Recap of SRECon Americas 2023.

Last9

Introducing Levitate: ‘uplifting’ your metrics woes because self-management sucks like gravity

Introducing Levitate: ‘uplifting’ your metrics woes because self-management sucks like gravity

Managing your own time series database is painful. We’ve moved from servers to services, and yet, monitoring metrics data is primitive. Our managed time series database powers mission-critical workloads for monitoring, at a fraction of the cost.

Nishant Modak

The importance of structured communication in the world of SRE

The importance of structured communication in the world of SRE

How you communicate helps build your 9s. In the world of Site Reliability Engineering, this is crucial. How do you do it?

Saurabh Hirani

Thanos vs Cortex

Thanos vs Cortex

In-depth comparison of Cortex and Thanos, what specifically they help teams do, challenges in implementing both, and how to think about what’s right for your team.

Sahil Khan

Static Threshold vs. Dynamic Threshold Alerting

Static Threshold vs. Dynamic Threshold Alerting

What's the difference between Static Threshold vs Dynamic Threshold Alerting? Do you really know when and how to use each threshold type?

Last9

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality

When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality. Here’s an explanation as I have understood it.

Piyush Verma

Why Service Level Objectives?

Why Service Level Objectives?

Understanding how to measure the health of your servcie, benefits of using SLOs, how to set compliances and much more...

Piyush Verma

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

Best Practices for Postmortems: A guide

The ins and outs of conducting an effective postmortem. Ready templates and examples from leading organizations around the world!

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Choosing Effective SLIs

Choosing Effective SLIs

Practical advice to choose an effective SLI.

Akshay Chugh

The origin of Service Level Objectives

The origin of Service Level Objectives

An obscure term - Service Level Objectives - rules the Software industry. But where does it come from? Strap on your seat belts, this is going to be a bumpy one (pun intended :p)

Akshay Chugh, Piyush Verma

Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Running a Database on EC2 is Slowing It Down

Learn everything about the advantages of EC2, it's use cases and how to optimize EC2 further.

Jayesh Bapu Ahire, Akshay Chugh

Deployment Readiness Checklists

Deployment Readiness Checklists

A ready checklist of a comprehensive list of steps and activities involved in the deployment of your application.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

The most interesting talks from SRECon 2021!

The most interesting talks from SRECon 2021!

SRECon is a conference hosted by USENIX and is focused on site reliability, distributed systems, and systems engineering at scale. Learn about some of the most interesting talks from SRECon 2021.

Akshay Chugh

Doing SRE the Right Way!

Doing SRE the Right Way!

A well-thought-out approach to SRE, which will help site reliability engineers and software engineers develop and maintain a useful, consistent, and effective SRE strategy for their products!

Piyush Verma

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Microservices - Tracking Dependencies

Quick primer into microservices architecture and the importance of tracking dependencies

Akshay Chugh, Jayesh Bapu Ahire

SLOs eased

SLOs eased

You can either love running or hate running, but you will definitely love this analogy - take a fresh look at SLOs!

Piyush Verma, Saurabh Hirani

AWS security groups: canned answers and exploratory questions

AWS security groups: canned answers and exploratory questions

While using a Terraform lifecycle rule, what do you do when you get a canned response from a security group?

Saurabh Hirani

If it ain't broke...

If it ain't broke...

A Terraform lifecycle rule in the right place can help prevent a deadlock. But the same lifecycle rule in the wrong place?

Saurabh Hirani

mv aws-security-group shoot-foot

mv aws-security-group shoot-foot

How you can run into an unplanned downtime while making a seemingly harmless change of renaming an AWS security group through Terraform?

Saurabh Hirani

Much That We Have Gotten Wrong About SRE

Much That We Have Gotten Wrong About SRE

An illustrated summary of Developers ➡ DevOps ➡ SRE

Piyush Verma