Leadership & Culture
SRE accountability needs authority, capacity, and a clear owner
Define who does the work, who decides, and who accepts risk so ownership remains useful during incidents and follow-up.
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How-To
Read Google’s free SRE books with an operational question in mind
Use the free SRE books as references for a concrete service problem, then adapt and test the practices against your own constraints.
News
NVIDIA Topograph puts GPU placement evidence in focus
New Topograph guidance connects physical network topology to workload schedulers. The operational check is whether the scheduler’s view survives cluster change.
News
Claude adds on-demand compaction for long-running agents
The Messages API can now summarize conversation history when an application chooses. SRE teams should test which operational constraints survive.
News
Splunk agent observability: follow the work, then the bill
Splunk’s September release connects agent evaluation and cost monitoring. The useful test is whether a responder can trace spending back to an outcome.
Technology Overviews
Supervising coding agents with Herdr
Check agent status, terminal persistence, and recovery before adopting Herdr.
AIOps
What MTTD misses
Separate detection from response and find delays that an improving average can conceal.
AIOps
When agents can change production
Define the action, contain its scope, and verify what changed at the destination.
How-To
Connect the signals with OpenTelemetry
Use instrumentation and context propagation to connect the evidence in an investigation.
AIOps
GPU capacity depends on power and cooling
When inference slows without obvious application errors, test physical constraints alongside queueing, workload changes, and software regressions.
AIOps
Evaluate Claude Opus 4.6 for operational work
Test evidence retrieval, long-session consistency, tool boundaries, and cost before letting a model influence production changes.
AIOps
Sustainable on-call: make workload relief change the plan
Connect on-call interruptions, specialist demand, and recovery work to a concrete capacity decision using an on-call workload worksheet.