Welcome to the weekly post of the RackN blog recap of all things SRE. If you have any ideas for this recap or would like to include content please contact us at info@rackn.com or tweet Rob (@zehicle) or RackN (@rackngo)

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SRE Items of the Week

Site Reliability Engineer: Don’t fall victim to the bias blind spot
http://sdtimes.com/site-reliability-engineer-dont-fall-victim-to-the-bias-blind-spot/

To ensure websites and applications deliver consistently excellent speed and availability, some organizations are adopting Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) model. In this model, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – usually someone with both development and IT Ops experience – institutes clear-cut metrics to determine when a website or application is production-ready from a user performance perspective. This helps reduce friction that often exists between the “dev” and “ops” sides of organizations. More specifically, metrics can eliminate the conflict between developers’ desire to “Ship it!” and operations desire to not be paged when they are on-call. If performance thresholds aren’t met, releases cannot move forward. READ MORE

Episode 50 – SRE Revisited plus the Challenge of Ops and more with Rob Hirschfeld
http://podcast.discoposse.com/e/ep-50-sre-revisited-plus-the-challenges-of-ops-and-more-with-rob-hirschfeld-zehicle/

This fun chat expands on what we started talking about in episode 42 (http://podcast.discoposse.com/e/ep-42-spiraling-ops-debt-sre-solutions-and-rackn-chat-with-rob-hirschfeld-zehicle/) as we dive into the challenges and potential solutions for thinking and acting with the SRE approach. Big thansk to Rob Hirschfeld from @RackN for sharing his thoughts and experiences from the field on this very exciting subject. LISTEN HERE

Site Reliability Engineering – Operators and Developers Working Together
http://bit.ly/2u7eSmm 

Rob Hirschfeld, Co-Founder and CEO of RackN provides his thoughts on how operators are equivalent to developers and work together to accomplish the critical task of keep the infrastructure running and available with constant changes in the data center

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus are preparing for a series of upcoming events where they are speaking or just attending. If you are interested in meeting with them at these events please email info@rackn.com.

• DevOpsDays Dallas – August 29 – 30: Rob Hirschfeld Talk
  

OTHER NEWSLETTERS

• SRE Weekly (@SREWeekly) – Issue #82
• The DevOps/WebOps Marketing Geek – LINK from @LukasHertig
• Julie Evans Blog – LINK