Archive - Certo Modo

SRE is Ops With Boundaries

Join fellow SRE Paige Cruz and yours truly on an exploration of my history being on-call, using multiple generations of observability tools, and how to…

Feb 2 •

January 2025

Reliability Rebels Podcast: Ep 3

Not all production incidents are created equal.

Jan 6 •

December 2024

2024 was a very eventful year in the tech industry, with Certo Modo being no exception to the rule.

Dec 31, 2024 •

November 2024

September 2024

Thoughts From The First SEV0 Conference

As systems grow larger and more complex, mastering incident response isn’t just a necessity— it’s critical for a tech company’s survival.SEV0, hosted by…

Sep 26, 2024 •

Effective SLOs Workshop

A few months back, I presented the Effective SLOs webinar, where we discussed how to select, implement, and iterate on Service Level Objectives (SLOs…

Sep 17, 2024 •

In Defense of Time Tracking

Time tracking gets a bad rap. It’s easy to forget, adds extra steps to an already busy schedule, and often feels like micromanagement. But hear me…

Sep 9, 2024 •

August 2024

Hot take: you build it, you run it

If you build software that people depend on and are not operationally responsible for it (particularly on-call): you should be. 🛑

Aug 23, 2024 •

June 2024

May 2024

Let’s get real: Service Level Objectives are hard to get right. They are indeed a transformative technique in making services reliable, however, there…

May 21, 2024 •

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