The Human Element in GitLab's 2021 DevSecOps Survey
Infrastructure automation is gaining steam, but human processes remain a challenge
Ed Sawma, VP of Operations & Marketing · May 18th, 2021
The Case for Incremental Automation: Why All or Nothing Automation Is Not the Solution for DevOps
Successful DevOps automation requires dynamic documentation and keeping humans in the loop
Jessica Abelson · May 14th, 2021
We're Building a Human-Centered Enterprise — Here's Why It Matters
Successful culture change and digital transformation requires a people-first framework
Laurel Frazier · May 7th, 2021
Understanding the Roots of Our Cloud Complexity
How AWS and cloud computing shifted the complexity of our infrastructure
Taylor Barnett · Apr 21st, 2021
State of DevOps Automation 2021 Report Reveals Automation Holds the Key to Scaling Reliably
Organizations are looking to SRE and automation to combat a rise in service incidents.
Jessica Abelson · Apr 6th, 2021
4 Tips for Managing and Scaling Your Startup’s Engineering Organization
Practical advice from two startup CTOs on tackling product development and engineering management
Laurel Frazier · Mar 25th, 2021
Piecing Together the Puzzle: Connecting DevOps with ITSM to Manage Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure
Agile IT Operations requires integrating your tools, data, and people via DevOps process orchestration
Laurel Frazier · Mar 19th, 2021
Baker Approved: Incident Response Automation
Baking competition favorites like The Great British Bake Off, Sugar Rush, and Nailed It!, remind us why capturing all incident related data is essential to successful incident management
Laurel Frazier · Dec 21st, 2020
Humans, Data, and Automation: Insights From Transposit CTO Tina Huang
Is "automate everything" the best approach?
Laurel Frazier · Dec 8th, 2020
Transposit CEO Divanny Lamas Screams in the Cloud With Corey Quinn
Divanny Lamas joins Corey Quinn for a provocative, humorous, and insightful podcast discussion.
Jessica Abelson · Nov 25th, 2020
Pre-Mortem: How SREs Can Prepare for Incidents
When incidents inevitably hit, does your team have a game plan? Prepare for any situation with communication, data, and process.
Jessica Abelson · Oct 28th, 2020
5 Simple Steps to DevOps Automation
You know that automation can mean faster incident resolution, but you don't where to start? Let's keep it simple.
Jessica Abelson · Oct 15th, 2020
3 Steps to Reducing Incident Communication Overload
How to address the complexity and stress of managing disjointed communications while the MTTR clock is ticking
Jessica Abelson · Oct 6th, 2020
The Lifecycle of an Incident: How We've Neglected the Before and After
A narrow view of the incident management lifecycle leaves organizations vulnerable.
Jessica Abelson · Sep 24th, 2020
Retaining On-Call Engineers in a Pandemic
How to keep the heroes who keep the world running from running away
Ashley Roof · Sep 14th, 2020
Why we raised a $35m Series B
Bringing human-centric automation and data to incident management
Divanny Lamas, CEO · Sep 2nd, 2020
The future of operations is now
Making on-call life easier in the world that agile created
Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Sep 2nd, 2020
What's in a name? Incident Management v. Incident Response
How to drive incident resolution through actionability
Taylor Barnett · Aug 26th, 2020
Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation - Part Three
How to decide what to automate first
Ashley Roof · Aug 21st, 2020
DevOps Cat Teaches Datadog About Human-in-the-Loop
A recent talk about automation at the Dash Conference
Taylor Barnett · Aug 13th, 2020
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Artificial Intelligence
What is the right direction forward with AI systems in operations
Taylor Barnett · Aug 4th, 2020
Proudly Keeping Humans in the Loop
Thoughts on Automation Since Failover Conf
Ashley Roof · Jul 29th, 2020
Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation - Part Two
The 80-20 Rule For Progressive Automation
Ashley Roof · Jul 23rd, 2020
Human-in-the-Loop Incident Response
A deeper look at human-in-the-loop automation in incident response with real life examples
Taylor Barnett · Jul 20th, 2020
Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation - Part One
An Explosion of Complexity From On-Prem to the Cloud
Ashley Roof · Jul 17th, 2020
DevOps Cat’s Guide To Automation - Part Three
How to have the best of both worlds, your human operator and automation, in incidents
Yoko Li · Jul 15th, 2020
DevOps Cat’s Guide To Automation - Part Two
How to train your human operator to respond to incidents
Yoko Li · Jul 10th, 2020
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Human-in-the-Loop
Why humans are crucial to automation
Taylor Barnett · Jul 8th, 2020
DevOps Cat’s Guide To Automation - Part One
How to strategically automate around your human to get what you want
Yoko Li · Jul 7th, 2020
Upcoming Event: Supercharging Your Stack with Interactive Automation
Join us next week for a fireside Zoom chat with Niall Murphy, co-author of the Google SRE books and Azure SRE lead and Tina Huang, CTO and co-founder of Transposit.
Ashley Roof · Jul 6th, 2020
Onboarding On-Call Engineers in a Pandemic
Setting Up Remote Teams for Success Across DevOps, SRE and Beyond
Ashley Roof · Jun 30th, 2020
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Runbooks
How runbooks can be a vehicle for automation
Taylor Barnett · May 22nd, 2020
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Orchestration
How to orchestrate complex systems with automation
Taylor Barnett · May 12th, 2020
Managing On-Call in a Pandemic
Timeless tips for remote on-call from the early days of “Follow the Sun”
Ashley Roof · May 7th, 2020
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Scripts
A look at our longtime, trusted friend in the spectrum of automation
Taylor Barnett · May 1st, 2020
Documentation as a Path to DevOps Automation
How documentation benefits your organization’s move towards automation
Taylor Barnett · Apr 2nd, 2020
Rewarding Documentation in DevOps
Why your DevOps practice should include documentation metrics
Taylor Barnett · Feb 26th, 2020
Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re An SRE
Tips and tricks for writing effective runbook documentation when you aren’t a technical writer
Taylor Barnett · Jan 30th, 2020
20 Years Since Y2K: The Future of IT Operations with Chaos Engineering and Resilience
Using Chaos Engineering and resilience alongside DevOps to manage change in our complex systems
Taylor Barnett · Jan 22nd, 2020
20 Years Since Y2K: left-pad, Heartbleed, and DevOps
An exploration of incidents that changed how we operate since Y2K
Taylor Barnett · Jan 15th, 2020
20 Years Since Y2K: The Evolution of IT Operations and DevOps
A comparison of IT operations tooling at the time of Y2K versus the DevOps tooling we have today
Taylor Barnett · Dec 30th, 2019
Tips for On Call Engineers During the Holidays
‘Tis The Season For the Dreaded Holiday On Call Shift
Ashley Roof · Dec 23rd, 2019
Easier On-call Overrides
How to make the process of scheduling an override on PagerDuty more efficient, encouraged, and documented
Taylor Barnett · Nov 20th, 2019
Human-in-the-loop workflow automation
The power of automation is increased by bringing humans into the loop.
Tina Huang, Founder and CTO · Nov 19th, 2019
What makes a good runbook?
What are the common attributes of a good runbook?
Dan Moore · Nov 14th, 2019
The power of checklists
Checklists and runbooks can make your life easier.
Dan Moore · Nov 8th, 2019
Embracing the SaaS unbundleverse
In an unbundled world, the monopolies will be horizontal, aggregating similar kinds of interactions across applications.
Adam Leventhal · May 15th, 2019