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Reducing IT Operations Costs with an SRE-Driven Operating Model in the Digital Age

[ad_1] Key Takeaways Maintaining a sysadmin approach for cloud-based IT operations results in hidden costs that can be mitigated by adopting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Leveraging an SRE-driven model will reduce costs by: Reducing the headcount required to provision and operate applications in the cloud,  improving customer experience through better reliability, optimizing resource consumption, increasing […]

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Unlocking the Power of Continuous Delivery: A Benchmarking Journey

[ad_1] Benchmarked Tools We benchmarked the following tools (listed here in alphabetic order): ArgoCD with Argo Workflows ArgoCD is a declarative continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It automates application deployments by ensuring infrastructure aligns with Git repositories, making it essential for modern DevOps practices. ArgoCD can be used as a standalone tool or as part

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Reducing IT Operations Costs with an SRE-Driven Operating Model in the Digital Age

[ad_1] Key Takeaways Maintaining a sysadmin approach for cloud-based IT operations results in hidden costs that can be mitigated by adopting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Leveraging an SRE-driven model will reduce costs by: Reducing the headcount required to provision and operate applications in the cloud,  improving customer experience through better reliability, optimizing resource consumption, increasing

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AIOps – A Powerful Tool off the GenAI Hype Radar

  People in software engineering who speak of AI are usually referring to code assistants. When it comes to the verification and operation of software and systems, however, AIOps, which has received little attention to date, is proving to be particularly effective. Today, the hype surrounding generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is dominating software engineering. Technologies

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A blueprint for the Digital Highway for Reliable and Continuous Software Delivery & Operations

[ad_1] With more than 20 years of field experience and working with the leading IT partners, Digital Architects Zurich developed a blueprint to support digital transformation. In this blog post, we will present this blueprint for the Digital Highway for reliable and continuous software delivery and operations. The challenge of successful Digital Transformation In order

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Site Reliability Engineering – An Overview

[ad_1] If you let a software engineer come up with an ideal set-up for application operations, you will most likely hear about a concept that is very similar to that of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as Ben Treynor, VP of engineering at Google and founder of Google’s SRE team, describes.  The motivation to introduce and define such a role is based on conflicting goals in modern operating models. Two examples of such conflicts

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Effective SRE : How to democratize and apply Site Reliability Engineering in your organisation

[ad_1] You certainly have heard of a company named Google. The IT giant was among the first pioneers of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) . After making its proofs within Google’s production systems, the concept gained a lot of attraction around the Software Engineering community. At Digital Architects Zurich, we understand Site Reliability Engineering as a fundamental concept, as we explained in a previous

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Effective SRE Tooling for self-service Monitoring and Analytics

[ad_1] An open Observability-based instrumentation & AI-able streaming architecture to pilot the Digital Highway We introduced, in a previous blogpost, the high-level pattern of the digital highway suggested by Digital Architects Zurich to tackle the following challenge: “Ensuring SLOs in the age of digital transformation, Cloud & DevOps while keeping budget under control and leveraging

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EFFECTIVE SRE: SLO engineering and Error Budget

[ad_1] As part of our democratised approach for companies to adopt SRE, we have introduced in a previous blogpost our “Effective SRE” challenge triangle (see below). We then mentioned “SLO Engineering” without exploring it in further details and without describing its related key activities. In this blog post, we will provide you an overview of

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Effective SRE: Continuous Verification by applying AI to Continuous Delivery and Quality Gate automation

[ad_1] Faster delivery of software will fail without a highly engineered Continuous Delivery Pipeline. It not only ensures various application quality attributes, but also allows testing of the release workflows and practicing the delivery of software. Effective SRE Challenges Triangle (Digital Architects Zurich, 2020) Continuous Verification, as part of Continuous Delivery, addresses the increased need

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