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Embedding Observability Into Your Engineering Culture

How can you create a safe culture that enables engineers to learn, try, and test? The data unlocked by observability

Engineering Best PracticesObservability

Cultivating Production Excellence

Taming the complex distributed systems is not just changing tools and techniques. It also requires changing who is involved in

Engineering Best Practicescultureincident responseoncallproduction excellencereleasereliabilityresiliencySLOsocio-technicalSRE

Fast & Simple: Observing Code & Infra Deployments at Honeycomb

In this talk, you'll learn about the architecture and operational practices used by an engineering team of less than a

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Ask an SRE Panel

Follow along as SRE leaders from Slack, Fastly, Catchpoint, and Autodesk discuss defining SRE, avoiding pitfalls, managing incident anxiety, informing

Engineering Best PracticesAPMDevOpsincident responsemanagementmonitoringObservabilityoncallreliabilityresiliencySite Reliability EngineerSRE

The Socio-Technical Path to High Performing Teams – With Animation

We are far behind where we should be as a profession when it comes to how much of our effort

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityculturefriday deployproduction excellencereleasereliabilityresiliencysite reliabilitySLOsocio-technicalSRE

Tradeoffs on the Road to Observability – With Animation

The main way to improve sustainability of services is to empower engineers, not just SREs, to understand their systems. Liz

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilitycultureincident responseproduction excellencereleasereliabilityresiliencysite reliabilitySLOsocio-technicalSRE

Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store

Building Honeycomb, we needed a low-latency, distributed, schemaless database. NBD for Facebook, but we faced multi-tenancy, cost to serve, and

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