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DevOps Lifecycle: Step-By-Step Walkthrough & Best Practices

Want to know more about the DevOps lifecycle? We explain the seven phases in DevOps, and how each one plays a vital role in the development process.

DevOps vs. Agile

Curious about the differences between DevOps vs. Agile development methodologies? We'll explore and compare both approaches.

Container Orchestration Explained Simply

When your organization manages too many containers, you start to need container orchestration. We'll explain.

8 DevOps Best Practices for a High-Performance Team

Wondering about DevOps best practices? If you are looking to improve and streamline your current process, we recommend these practices and how to implement them.

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DevOps & SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

DevOps and SRE Language: Discover the key differences between industry terms such as Postmortem vs Retrospective, RCA vs CFA, Disaster vs Incident

The Complete Guide to DevOps (Explained Simply)

Wondering what DevOps is all about? We will explain what it is, how it works, why it matters, and how it can help your organization

What are MTTx Metrics Good For? Let's Find Out.

MTTx metrics rarely tell the whole story of a system’s reliability. To understand what MTTx metrics are really telling you, you’ll need to combine them with other data. In this blog post, we'll share some alternatives to the basic MTTx metrics you might be using.

4 Things you Need to Know about Writing Better Production Readiness Checklists

In this blog post, we’ll cover how to make a production checklist, why production checklists are helpful, keeping your checklist up to date, and how Blameless can help integrate your checklists.

Have a Cloud Transition you can be Proud Of

In this blog, we’ll look at how SRE helps with migrating and operating in the cloud, as well as share some tips on how to maximize reliability.

Modern Operations Best Practices from Engineering Leaders at New Relic and Tenable

In a recent industry leaders’ roundtable hosted by Blameless, top experts discussed how teams can embrace SRE best practices and make cultural shifts towards blamelessness

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How to Cut Cloud Costs for 2021 Using Blameless

In this blog post, I’m excited to share a project that I’m working on to reduce our cloud spend. Let’s take a look at some of the non-outage ways we use Blameless Incident Management to manage, track, and keep a historical record of projects that might have durations of weeks or months, versus nail-biting minutes or hours.

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The Engineer's Guide to Preparing for Black Friday 2020

In this blog post, we’ll cover how to handle a Black Friday that’s unlike any other we’ve seen thus far. We’ll cover how SLO-based alerting, runbooks, and other practices to drive preparedness are crucial for holiday season success.

Leaders, Here's how to Encourage Full Service Ownership

Service ownership is becoming common practice and its benefits are well-known. Leadership will need to encourage and empower teams to adopt the “you build it, you run it” mentality. Here are some ways to get teams on board.

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Leadership and Innovation with Instacart's VP of Infrastructure

Blameless CEO Ashar Rizqi recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dustin Pearce in a virtual executive fireside chat and AMA. Below is the transcript of their conversation.

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Are you Promoting Continuous Learning within Your Teams?

Our work-as-done may not match what we did at the beginning of 2020. However, by prioritizing continuous improvement and learning, we can work through these issues and build more resilient socio-technical systems.

Fostering Teamwork and Culture in the Era of Remote Work

Remote work isn't going anywhere. Make sure your teams are working with it, not against it by fostering teamwork and culture.

This is What you Should do to Minimize SPOFS

Between COVID-19 and the typical summer slow down, offices are emptier than they’re ever been. With team members taking some much-needed time off, it’s important to know how your team will be affected. Here are some tips to help your teams function during this time of flux.

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Blameless Is Awarded CIOReview Top 2020 DevOps Solution Provider

We're proud to announce that we were selected by CIOReview as one of the Top 20 DevOps Solution Providers of 2020 alongside other innovators in the space such as Chef, Jfrog, Splunk, and Xebia Labs. This recognition validates our vision to help teams achieve production excellence by facilitating resilience and learning.

Join Blameless at INS1GHTS2020!

Blameless is so excited to sponsor INS1GHTS2020. This one-day digital gathering of industry leaders in NetOps, DevOps, and application delivery provides the (virtual) space for candid conversations and presentations on navigating the present and building the infrastructure that will power the future.

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How to Create Psychological Safety for Remote Teams

Psychologically safe organizations are free to create, discuss, disagree, take risks, and make mistakes. These organizations are often the ones we see as key innovators in their unique industries. In other words, cultivating a culture of psychological safety is paramount in order to succeed. So what can we do to make sure our teammates feel secure even while socially distanced?

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Deserted Island DevOps Recap

April 30, 2020 Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep and co-host of On-Call Me Maybe, hosted a one-of-a-kind DevOps conference. Deserted Island DevOps was the first ever conference held in the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

A "Retrospective" of Amy Tobey's "The Future of DevOps is Resilience Engineering"

April 22, 2020 at 11:20 AM PST, Amy Tobey began her talk “The Future of DevOps is Resilience Engineering” at Gremlin’s Failover Conf. During her talk, attendees registered additional questions. Requests and responses noted in timeline below.

Reflections on Gremlin's Failover Conf

With dozens of cancelled events, social distancing policies, and heightened stress due to the current crisis, it was more necessary than ever to take a moment to learn, share, and talk to one another about something we are all passionate about. We loved Failover Conf, and want to share our favorite parts with you.

Blameless is a Proud Sponsor of Gremlin's Failover Conf

We’re so proud to be co-sponsoring Gremlin’s new virtual conference, Failover Conf. As Gremlin states, “We expected to gather together in person to share our knowledge and experiences when the unexpected happened. But we’re resilient. When one opportunity goes down, we create another."

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Survivor Season 41, Bay Area

Blameless is excited to announce its sponsorship of Survivor Season 41: Silicon Valley. In this season of Survivor, players will hold nothing back! It’s a season that will shock everyone, even Jeff Probst himself. Survivor season 41 will feature an age-old conflict: Developers vs Operations!

How to Approach Remote Work with Incident Response Best Practices

In response to recent events, many organizations are implementing social distancing programs such as remote work. Successfully transitioning to remote work does come with challenges, but the right practices and attitudes can make it much less painful (and safer for you than heading into the office).

This is How to Use ITIL, DevOps, and SRE Best Practices

The trick is to ensure that regardless of your organizations’ different operating models or toolchains, there is shared visibility, communication, and collaboration across teams. This will allow your disparate teams to stay aligned while using the best practices from ITIL, DevOps, and SRE.

See Blameless at PyCon and join the team for drinks and snack

If you'd like to get to know us better, then join the team for drinks and appetizers at the unique and delicious restaurant Hodge's on May 4th, or if you'd like to apply for a position to work with Blameless and change the world through SRE, visit us at booth 23 at the PyCon job fair!

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Blameless at SaaStr 2019

It's that time of the year again: SaaStr time! Blameless is heading to SaaStr in San Jose and hopes you'll be able to join us. You can stop by Booth 721 to chat with us about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and why Blameless might be the best solution for you. Come grab some swag, chat with us, and RSVP for our VIP dinner!

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Exciting News at KubeCon 2018

December is typically considered a month of reflection and anticipation for what’s to come -- it's kind of like a postmortem for your year :wink:. 2018 was a great year for Blameless, and we have something even more exciting coming in 2019. So join us at KubeCon 2018 as we get ready to make an announcement that will be guaranteed to brighten your new year.

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Elephant in the Blameless War Room: Accountability

DevOps & SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

Self-Compassion Instead of Self-Blame

Top DevOps Posts

DevOps Lifecycle: Step-By-Step Walkthrough & Best Practices

DevOps vs. Agile

Container Orchestration Explained Simply

All DevOps Posts

DevOps Lifecycle: Step-By-Step Walkthrough & Best Practices

DevOps vs. Agile

Container Orchestration Explained Simply

8 DevOps Best Practices for a High-Performance Team

DevOps & SRE Words Matter: How Our Language has Evolved

The Complete Guide to DevOps (Explained Simply)

What are MTTx Metrics Good For? Let's Find Out.

4 Things you Need to Know about Writing Better Production Readiness Checklists

Have a Cloud Transition you can be Proud Of

Modern Operations Best Practices from Engineering Leaders at New Relic and Tenable

How to Cut Cloud Costs for 2021 Using Blameless

The Engineer's Guide to Preparing for Black Friday 2020

Leaders, Here's how to Encourage Full Service Ownership

Leadership and Innovation with Instacart's VP of Infrastructure

Are you Promoting Continuous Learning within Your Teams?

Fostering Teamwork and Culture in the Era of Remote Work

This is What you Should do to Minimize SPOFS

Blameless Is Awarded CIOReview Top 2020 DevOps Solution Provider

Join Blameless at INS1GHTS2020!

How to Create Psychological Safety for Remote Teams

Deserted Island DevOps Recap

A "Retrospective" of Amy Tobey's "The Future of DevOps is Resilience Engineering"

Reflections on Gremlin's Failover Conf

Blameless is a Proud Sponsor of Gremlin's Failover Conf

Survivor Season 41, Bay Area

How to Approach Remote Work with Incident Response Best Practices

This is How to Use ITIL, DevOps, and SRE Best Practices

See Blameless at PyCon and join the team for drinks and snack

Blameless at SaaStr 2019

Exciting News at KubeCon 2018

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