Alex Potter DixonFailure Friday: Simulated ChaosIn any operations team, you will always try and plan for every system failure. You may do this by writing playbooks, reading documentation…Apr 18, 2020Apr 18, 2020
Alex Potter DixoninGlasswall EngineeringPostmortem: Production gets some new IPs!Postmortems are a massive part of any incident management process. They allow us to break down what happened, reflect and most importantly…Jan 29, 2020Jan 29, 2020
Alex Potter DixoninGlasswall EngineeringManage Things, Lead PeopleHaving recently been given the amazing opportunity to lead the SRE team at Glasswall I’ve had time to reflect on how best to lead the team…Dec 7, 2019Dec 7, 2019
Alex Potter DixoninGlasswall EngineeringAre you ready? New starters journey to production.One of the main and if not most important part of being an SRE team member is running of the production system.Dec 1, 2019Dec 1, 2019
Alex Potter DixoninGlasswall EngineeringTerraform?At Glasswall our SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team currently manages our IaC (Infrastructure As Code) deployments via Azure CLI…Nov 24, 2019Nov 24, 2019
Alex Potter DixoninGlasswall EngineeringBalance of Reliability and New FeaturesThe BalanceNov 17, 2019Nov 17, 2019