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Reliability: The backbone of successful businesses

[ad_1] What if we told you that the only thing keeping your business from success is Reliability?  A simple recipe of two main ingredients can define a company’ success and growth: The balance between new features and reliability.  Trustworthiness, the ability to deliver a reliable product, predicting incidents before they happen and putting customers’ business stability at the center of the frame are the main keywords here. […]

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Effective SRE Key Capabilities: Observability, OpenTelemetry and MELT

[ad_1] The first concept of Observability appeared in 1960 by the engineer Rudolf E. Kalman, but it wasn’t until 2010 that we discovered the importance of observability in the IT field and its role into the business growth. In a nutshell, Observability is the capability to ask arbitrary questions about your system without knowing them

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Effective SRE: Continuous Verification

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

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. Continuous Verification, as part of Continuous Delivery, addresses the increased need for application reliability of production systems with intelligent and

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Digital Architects Zurich at Unscripted conference

Unscripted Conference (hosted by Harness): we were there to talk about the Digital Highway for Continuous Software Delivery!

Digital Architects Zurich actively took part in the Unscripted virtual worldwide Conference hosted by Harness on October 21st and 22nd, 2020. The meetup was rich of a diverse set of topics and instructful presentations. Covid-19 restrictions which led the event to be held remotely, did not hinder the participants from having a very substantial exchange.

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SLO Engineering and Error Budget

EFFECTIVE SRE: SLO engineering and Error Budget

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 SLO

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Site Reliability Engineering – An Overview

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)Site Reliability Engineering. Beyer, Jones, Petoff, Murphy, 2016 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

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