Tag site reliability engineering

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The Google SRE Handbook Was Not Written for Your Team

Catchpoint’s SRE Report 2025, now in its seventh year of tracking the profession, reported something unexpected: operational toil rose for the first time in five years. Median toil time across 301 site reliability practitioners climbed from 25% to 30% of…

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This Week in Cloud: Smarter Models, Sharper Bills

A busy week across the major providers, with AWS delivering a cluster of meaningful updates and Google quietly improving one of its most important HA features. The thread running through much of it: cloud platforms are being reshaped around AI…

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GCP Landing Zone Setup: A Practical Guide for Cloud Architects

The landscape of Google Cloud Platform adoption shifted dramatically in May 2024. Organisations creating new GCP accounts now receive automatic security baseline enforcement: a paradigm change that elevated landing zones from “nice to have” to foundational infrastructure. For cloud architects…