The blameless blog

The value of incident management work, like the work of women, is an often overlooked part of computer science history. We'll try to turn the spotlight to these untold stories.

Want to learn more about the Blameless Reliability Scholarship? We’re looking for current & prospective comp sci and STEM students in the U.S. interested in SRE.

Big news everyone! We’re excited to promote our own, Matt Davis, to SRE Advocate. Hear what Matt has to say about his journey into this role, and what it means to him.

We're excited to launch a collaborative survey with Catchpoint to see the latest trends in SRE!

The star of the show is, of course, the talks. I virtually attended nine this year, and I’d like to highlight some of the insights I got from them. 

During Women’s History Month, we hear so many great stories about successful women. It’s encouraging to read what women have achieved, especially in the face of adversity.

It’s been a few months since I joined Blameless and now that I’ve got my footing, I figured it’s a good time to share why I joined and what I think the future holds – now that I’m part of it.

A couple of weeks back, Blameless attended SaaStr 2021, the go-to event for any business Go-to-Market (GTM) team which has been running since 2012. Our decision to sponsor was made in early 2020. Back then, we had no idea how long the pandemic would last or that it would be a full 18 months before we’d be able to do a physical event.

The Blameless team is delighted to share that we’ve just closed a $30M series B funding round from existing and new investors. This funding will allow us to continue providing the best in SRE as we expand our product, engineering and GTM teams. Check out the news release!

There was a rushed stillness in the air. That odd pre-tsunami silence briefly collapsed around us. Then, pandemonium: blasts, screams, horns, cheers... within minutes of each other, Los Angeles had won the World Series and Matt Davis accepted a role as Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Blameless.

In a recent fireside chat with Mohan Bhatkar, Head of Engineering for the Customer Reliability Platform at Mercari, Inc. sat down with Blameless Co-Founder Ashar Rizqi. They talked about scaling while avoiding silos, exciting day-to-day challenges, instilling a culture of empowerment, and more. Here are their top insights and the lightly edited transcript of their conversation.

What I’ve found is that I’m driven by teaching emerging best practices: like a surfer chasing the biggest swells I’m drawn to the waves of new paradigms that have the capacity to transform the way the world works. That is why I’m so excited to join Blameless as a Staff Software Engineer.