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Site Reliability Engineer - Roles and Responsibilities

The term Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) owes its origins to Google's approach of leveraging automation, tools, and processes in Operations and Service Management. The objective was to ensure service reliability

Site Reliability Engineer Job Interview – Tips and Questions

Preparing for an interview is a never-ending process, because you will never know what the interviewer is going to ask you and how. And that's why IT people always say,

What is ChatOps?

IntroductionThe term ‘ChatOps’ was first coined by Github to describe how their internal teams used a bot called Hubot to handle DevOps. Since then, ChatOps has been practically (and successfully)

Kubernetes No CPU Limit: Save yourself from setting up CPU

IntroductionKubernetes, an open source container orchestration platform, helps to orchestrate your containerized application. One does not need to worry about scaling in, scaling out, availability of the application if Kubernetes

The Power of Amixr with dxFeed

Company Industry: IT, Finance Location: US Number of employees: ~50 Year of integration: 2019 Number of Amixr Users: 15 Amixr Integration Integration: Slack Incidents: ~1500 /month dxFeed: Who They Are

The Power of Developer-Friendly Software: Enix Gives Insight into Using Amixr

Company: Enix.io Industry: DevOps and Cloud Native technologies Location: France Number of employees: 18 Year of integration: 2019 Number of Amixr Users: 6 Amixr Integration Integration: Slack Monitoring stack:

Quick How-To: Route Incidents to Different Slack Channels

I'll cover the basics of incident routing using Amixr. Just a quick and useful how-to. Imagine we're receiving incidents and alerts from Prometheus and we need to route them to

7 Best Practices for DevOps Release Management

Release management can seem unnerving as DevOps practices can add great speed and consistency to the software delivery lifecycle. However, DevOps also brings better visibility and collaboration that can streamline

What To Look For When Choosing An Incident Response Software

It doesn’t take a security professional to know that even the most insignificant incident can cause much greater outcomes. That’s because whether security, safety, or compliance, even the

How Tele2 prevented a downtime and improved reaction time with Amixr

Company Industry: Telecommunications Location: Russia Customers: 42+ million Number of employees: 7,000+ Year of integration: 2019 Number of Amixr Users: 30 Amixr Integration Integration: Slack Incidents: ~10k/month Incident

Tutorial: Django in Kubernetes with monitoring. Part 1/2.

Launch web app in local kubernetes using helm with monitoring. The awesome local playground tutorial for those who study DevOps! Part 1:write a basic Django applicationpack up the application into a docker imageprepare a helm package (chart)To complete the tutorial, you will

May 2020 Updates: Free Plan, API, advanced filters, better escalation policies

Happy to share the new features available in Amixr! Everyone will find something new to try. We've deployed an API which will help large teams to manage their configuration. At

Toil Budget with Amixr

Most people are annoyed to get stuck doing boring chores that could be handled more efficiently which leads to burnout and exhaustion. A couple of years ago Google introduced SRE

COVID-19 response: free month to all customers.

Hi from the Amixr CEO, As engineers, we understand the significance of incidents. Customers like you, who use Amixr to manage those incidents, trust us and our expertise. We greatly value that trust. We mean that on so many levels. We cannot ignore the

What We’ve Learned from Processing the First 150,000 Production Incidents: Alert Pressure Patterns (Part 1)

Our job is to build the best product on the market for incident management by using what we know and learn about IT teams and IT incidents. We’ve conducted

Root incidents, Google Calendar for On-Call... Getting better every day 🚀

Happy to introduce the next update of Amixr.IO incident management tool! Huge thanks to all users for the feedback, ideas and motivation. ❤️ New feel and look⚙️ Root cause incident

New blog!

Some of our old posts: How we built curler: https://medium.com/@matveykukuy/why-the-heck-did-we-build-one-more-uptime-monitoring-saas-9a20005dfe83About Toil Budget: https://medium.com/@iskhakov/toil-budget-with-amixr-e8db232a2b18About On-Call scheduling and routing: https://medium.com/@matveykukuy/on-call-scheduling-alert-lifecycle-routing-are-now-available-inside-slack-36b8ad8ef0d9Photo

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