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Reducing On-call Alert Fatigue with Deduplication

Alert noise is a very common on call complaint leading to fatigue and on call burnout. This article is an attempt at helping folks address this problem.

Squadcast's Year in Review, 2019

2019 gave us an accelerated product growth and our team grew by 2x in size. We kick-started this year with a complete UI refresh and a whole bunch of new features. We also sponsored some of the major tech events and conducted our first ever community driven meetup!

How to avoid on-call burnout

Incident management is stressful around the holidays. This is a pre-holiday checklist covering no deploy holidays, executable runbooks, automated incident response and more

Transparency in Incident Response

Transparency in incident response is often an overlooked bedrock of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). In this blog, we talk about why it matters and how you can cultivate transparency in your team and benefit from it.

Danny Mican on his experience as an SRE at Auth0

Danny is an SRE at Auth0 & manages the reliability of systems that authenticate over 2.5 billion logins/ month and is expected to have 99.9% availability.

The age of service mesh

There is a lot of hype around service mesh. But what are they and why is it needed? In this article, Gigi Sayfan, a Principal Software Architect talks about the rise of service mesh, why it is such an important trend, how service mesh works with Kubernetes and more.

Pavlos Ratis shares his experience on being an SRE

Pavlos Ratis an SRE based in Munich, Germany shares his journey, challenges, and overall learnings in becoming an SRE.

Automated Runbooks = Faster Recovery

Traditional Runbooks can become 10x more useful if they were automated or at-least made executable (partly, if not fully).

Managing technical risk effectively with Error Budgets

Using Error Budgets to understand if your system can handle new code deploys

How Squadcast Actions help you reduce MTTR

Improve Collaboration and Reduce MTTR with Squadcast Actions. In our product update blog series, we talk about our latest feature, Squadcast Actions, a blessing in disguise to your on-call teams.

Intent-based Capacity Planning and Autoscaling with Kubernetes

Intent-based Capacity Planning is Google's approach to declare reliability intent for a service and then solve for the most efficient resource allocation plan dynamically. Learn how you can start using this approach to manage the reliability of your services running on your Kubernetes cluster.

Mark Henderson from Stack Overflow shares his experience on being an SRE

Mark Henderson has been a Site Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow since 2015. Before this he worked as the sole systems administrator at a small software company in Sydney, Australia. These days, he lives in South Australia and works from home with his wife and two children.

Squad Talks: Madhu Kumar

The Squadcast Engineering team discusses life as they build an end-to-end batteries-included SRE product for the masses.

We’re at KubeCon Europe 2019!

Attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2019/] at Barcelona? Come join us at the worlds largest gathering for the Kubernetes and cloud native communities. We’ll be sharing ideas on building for reliability with SRE best practices in a k8s world. We're also launching support for Executable Runbooks (yes, you read that right!) as a Squadcast Action. Come check out how Squadcast [https://www.squadcast.com] can help m

Come join us at SREcon19 Americas!

We are super excited about being a part of SREcon19 Americas to support the SRE ninjas fighting the good fight! You can find us at Booth #54, located in the Northside Ballroom. We will be chatting about how you can seamlessly track SLOs and respond to incidents arising from SLO breaches with Squadcast Actions [https://www.squadcast.com/product]. Also, at stake are some really fun goodies! Let's put the response back into incident response tooling!