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Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

Dynatrace

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Organizations can then integrate these skilled engineers at key points in the DevOps life cycle.

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SRE vs DevOps: What you need to know

Dynatrace

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Encouraging a shift-left approach , testing earlier in the development lifecycle. Efficiency.

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Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360ยบ view of your environment

Dynatrace

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Dynatrace enables teams to specify SLOs, such as latency, uptime, availability, and more. How do you know if this problem has business impact?

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Site reliability engineering: 5 things to you need to know

Dynatrace

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Organizations can then integrate these skilled engineers at key points in the DevOps life cycle.

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DevOps observability: A guide for DevOps and DevSecOps teams

Dynatrace

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a software operations methodology that enables organizations to create highly reliable and scalable applications. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

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Millions of tiny databases

The Morning Paper

The core algorithms (chain-replication, Paxos-based consensus) aren’t the stars of the show here, instead the paper focuses on how these algorithms are deployed, and the software engineering practices behind the creation of a mission-critical production system employing them. A guiding principle. Cells have seven nodes.

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Automating chaos experiments in production

The Morning Paper

The โ€˜controlledโ€™ part is important here because given the scale and complexity of the environment under test, the only meaningful place to do this is in production with real users. a bug fix, configuration change, new feature, or A/B test). Netflixโ€™s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices.

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