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    The Five As of Consciousness (And Workshop Planning)

    The science and art of workshop design, in my admittedly biassed opinion, is something that is rarely given enough attention and thought. More often than not, a room is booked for a day, Post-its are ...

    Podcast: Jennifer Mace on How Google Does SRE

    Charles Humble talks to Jennifer Mace, aka as Macey. She gives us her definitions of "site reliability engineer" and “toil”, discusses how google recruits SREs, explores how to manage risk and speed, ...

    Podcast: Syntasso COO Paula Kennedy on Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns

    Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms. They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard against them at both a team and organisational level; provin...

    Frictionless Security: Balancing Infosec and DevEx

    The balance between Information Security (Infosec) and a good Developer Experience (DevEx) is a crucial aspect of modern-day businesses. Whilst Infosec is crucial for the protection of sensitive data ...

    Observability Culture: How to Gain Understanding Across the Organisation

    I’ve spent the last three years at cinch establishing a culture of observability, but what does that mean?

    Dashbored: Stop Looking at the Same Tired Data

    Dashboards are everywhere. Every service needs a dashboard, every team uses at least one dashboard. We have high-level dashboards, low-level dashboards, platform dashboards, infrastructure dashboards,...

    Practical Strategies for Implementing DevSecOps in Large Enterprises

    At Container Solutions, we often work with large enterprises who are at various different stages of adopting cloud technologies. These companies are typically keen to adopt modern Cloud Native softwar...

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    A Beginner's Guide to Using the Prometheus Operator

    Prometheus is a simple and effective open-source monitoring system. In the years after we published the article Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus, the system has graduated from the Cloud Native...

    SRE

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    What Does an SRE Do?

    Being a Site Reliability Engineer, or SRE, is a hot job—and an expensive one to keep on staff.