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Standardization is becoming a hot topic. Here’s why it’s so important, and concrete advice for bringing consistent operational practices to your engineering team.

Cookiecutter is a flexible templating engine that allows your team to easily create new services based off standard templates that ensure consistent structure and follow the team's defined best practices.

As an SRE, you probably already realize that the four golden signals—latency, traffic, errors, and saturation—are key for monitoring your system. The hard part is making sure your team adopts these signals and uses them to drive actual progress and prioritization. Here’s some tips for putting these numbers into action.

By using Cortex and Slack together, you’ll always be up to date with the latest org-wide initiatives, be able to get quick information about services within Cortex, and know who to reach out when Cortex doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

Modernizing your company's infrastructure is critical to delivering high quality and secure software at lower costs. But undertaking modernization projects can be incredibly daunting - here we layout tips and strategies you can use to approach modernization at your company.

Integrating Pagerduty into Cortex can help your team enforce adoption of on-call best practices for each service and team as well as track dozens of key metrics like MTTR through Scorecards.

Establishing consistency in the way microservices are built can save time, lead to higher quality architecture, and allow the focus to be on the needs of the customer.

Integrating Lightstep into Cortex can help teams import services easily, view Lightstep SLOs, and monitor application stability through Lightstep specific Scorecard rules.

Despite security often being an engineer's after-thought, it is increasingly critical to the success of software products. Developers need tools and incentives to write code with security in mind.

Integrating Bugsnag into Cortex can help users monitor application stability through the use of Scorecards.

Remote work is here to stay - here's 6 tips you can use to build a great onboarding process and make your engineering team more cohesive and productive as a result.

Integrating GitLab into Cortex can help teams import services easily, view Git commits alongside other events in the service timeline, and monitor development maturity using Scorecards.

With the growth of the SRE role, we're exploring a few key SRE principles that we believe apply strongly across functions and all engineering teams would benefit from adopting.

Integrating SonarQube into Cortex can help users monitor code quality and security through the use of Scorecards.

We've all dreamed of going viral and seeing usage skyrocket overnight but how do we actually prepare for that moment?

Integrating Sentry into Cortex can help users view Sentry events alongside other service events and pinpoint service issues.

Keeping track of service ownership across all microservices is extremely important but how should teams self-organize to achieve it and where's the best place to start?

On paper, being an SRE may look nothing like being in sales. But in reality, there’s more overlap than you might think. Learn four ways you can improve your influence within the engineering team as a SRE!

Cortex integrates with Snyk to help map vulnerabilities to services in the catalog and monitor vulnerabilities using Scorecards.

The move from a monolith to a microservices can be daunting. Here are five things to keep in mind that we’ve learned from helping teams navigate this transition.

We see teams fall into a few common traps with SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs. In this article, we’ll define these acronyms and show you how to avoid the mistakes other teams make.

What does your team’s production readiness practice look like for deploying a new service? In this article, we’ll share some helpful approaches for creating a great production readiness checklist.

Your on-call system is vital to business — you must be able to help customers fix issues as fast as possible. But getting the rotation right is vital to keeping your team happy and engaged.

Kubernetes (k8s) is an open-source system for managing containerized applications. Since 2014, K8s has revolutionized modern application building towards containers and microservices.

Microservices offer increased flexibility and scalability but how do you keep track of all your microservices?

There are a lot of SRE tools out there but which are the most important to consider? We’ve compiled this guide to highlight the key categories of SRE tools and help you find the right tools for your team.

An introduction to Kubernetes: We'll explore architectural concepts, advantages of using Kubernetes, how to set up Kubernetes, and how to run commands on a local machine using Minikube.

This article looks at the concepts of Kubernetes Services and Kubernetes Ingress.

Digital transformation means enterprises have to embrace new ways of thinking—from how they structure their teams to their application architecture.

Organizations that operate microservices/service-oriented architecture face a variety of technical and people related problems.

Historically, development teams and operations teams have been at odds.