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Operations

Why SLOs Matter

SLOs help SREs triage incidents by setting a clear standard of operational quality. SLOs can be effectively met with runtime control.
Christoph Kassen
· 5 min read
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Operations

Four SRE Tools Everybody Needs

SREs need to quickly understand what is going on and respond to issues as they arise. This is best done by controlling behaviors at runtime.
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Operations

To Shed or Not to Shed

We are comparing LinkedIn’s Hodor load shedder against Glasnostic’s agentless and more finely-grained approach to managing capacity issues.
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Operations

Code Is No Longer Enough: Why You Need Runtime Control

Running cloud-native applications successfully requires more than just code. It also requires the ability to control at runtime.
Christoph Kassen
· 5 min read
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Operations

Dependencies: Here Be Monsters

The dependencies of modern, cloud native environments create unpredictable "monsters" that can be slain effectively with runtime control.
Christoph Kassen
· 5 min read
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Operations

Rabbit Hole or Control? A Tale of Two Timelines

When disaster strikes, we often hunt for a 'root cause.' What if we could remediate—detect and respond in real-time—instead?
Tobias Kunze
· 5 min read
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Operations

Simplifying the “Ops Equation”

Cloud-native architectures are prone to application behaviors that can’t be addressed with more capacity. They require real-time control.
Tobias Kunze
· 8 min read
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Operations

2020 Ops Incidents: The Year in Review

We review some of the more notable outage post-mortems of the year and look at what we can learn from them for 2021.
Tobias Kunze
· 12 min read
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