You don’t need SRE. What you need is SRE.

Ever since Google published the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) book in 2016, the SRE movement has changed how organizations look at reliability, and incident response and management. Not unlike DevOps, working on adopting SRE is resulting in an organizational cultural shift. A shift which is changing how organizations are organized, on how information flows within an organization that would allow for…

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The Quest for the Holy Grail of ‘Git for Data’

This post originally appeared on the Accelerated Strategies Blog. As developers we version and branch our work – code, configurations, scripts, Infrastructure (as Code), etc. Anything we change as we work, we version. As we work on multiple tasks in parallel, we version on different branches. Over the years there have been dozens of solutions…

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Understanding Observability

Last week my understanding of Observability went up astronomically. In fact, it was taken to an all new dimension, all by one tweet by Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy): Observability, short and sweet: – can you understand whatever internal state the system has gotten itself into? …just by inspecting and interrogating its output? …even if (especially if)…

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Modernizing your Data Strategy for a data-driven business

The Houston Astros became the World Champions of Major League Baseball in 2017 by leveraging Data. Sure they had the best team, made up of individual players, which won the championship. But they got to the team and its performance by leveraging the data they had on players. Players who were existing pros in both…

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