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Navigating On-Call Compensation for SREs: Strategies and Insights

Navigating On-Call Compensation for SREs: Strategies and Insights

Discover 5 models of compensation for on-call

Jorge Lainfiesta

Jorge Lainfiesta

April 17, 2024
6 min read
Buy, Build, or Adopt: Seasoned Platform Engineers Weigh In

Buy, Build, or Adopt: Seasoned Platform Engineers Weigh In

What's the secret to achieving the right balance for your platform?

Jorge Lainfiesta

Jorge Lainfiesta

April 9, 2024
6 min read
How Incidents Foster Leadership

How Incidents Foster Leadership

To become battle-tested, you need to go through battles, not just read books or mentor newcomers. Both are helpful but the stakes are low. On the other hand, high stake jobs, such as running a big project or managing a team, are hard to get when you lack experience. So how can we solve this dilemma? Enter incident response.

Zhuang (Strong) Liang

Zhuang (Strong) Liang

April 3, 2024
4 min read
Boost Your Productivity with AI-Powered Tools

Boost Your Productivity with AI-Powered Tools

Explore how AI-powered tools like Slack, Salesforce, Canva, and Rootly are revolutionizing the way we work.

Tiffany Cox

Tiffany Cox

March 19, 2024
6 min read
Optimizing On-Call for Incident Management: Preventing Team Burnout with Rootly On-Call

Optimizing On-Call for Incident Management: Preventing Team Burnout with Rootly On-Call

Rootly On-Call streamlines incident management with automated scheduling, noise reduction, and centralized documentation. It mitigates on-call fatigue with features like flexible overrides, shift visibility, and shadow rotations, enhancing team well-being and preventing burnout.

Tiffany Cox

Tiffany Cox

March 18, 2024
5 min read
Introducing six Rootly AI features: focus on the incident, leave the paperwork to us

Introducing six Rootly AI features: focus on the incident, leave the paperwork to us

Say hello to smarter incident management with smart summaries, mitigation message suggestions, and our new conversational assistant! 🚀✨

JJ Tang

JJ Tang

March 12, 2024
6 min read
5 Easy Ways to Reduce Work-Related Stress for SRE Professionals

5 Easy Ways to Reduce Work-Related Stress for SRE Professionals

Discover simple yet effective strategies to decrease work-related stress and increase productivity for DevOps and SRE professionals. Transform your work life with these 5 easy tips from your friends at Rootly.

Tiffany Cox

Tiffany Cox

March 6, 2024
7 min read
KubeCon EU Unofficial SRE track: the talks you cannot miss

KubeCon EU Unofficial SRE track: the talks you cannot miss

There are more than 300 talks at this conference. Check out our SRE-oriented curation for must-see talks in Paris.

Jorge Lainfiesta

Jorge Lainfiesta

February 28, 2024
6 min read
Incident Commander Training Strategies: What The Books Don’t Tell You

Incident Commander Training Strategies: What The Books Don’t Tell You

The Google books offer helpful general principles. In practice, however, you shouldn’t assume they are immediately applicable to your environment. Some companies have comprehensive, high-quality documentation, mature incident response tooling, and more importantly, experienced ICs. However, if your organization is early in the process of establishing the incident response practice, you will need to expand on these principles, so that your response team can handle the chaos with greater ease.

Zhuang (Strong) Liang

Zhuang (Strong) Liang

February 26, 2024
6 min read