The things you wish you had before a crisis You can’t prevent or predict the next systems meltdown. But you can build resilience into your systems and organization before the next crisis strikes. Drawing on decades of site reliability engineering (SRE) experience and dozens of engagements with organizations in crisis, this article suggests technical and organizational patterns that will give your systems better odds of surviving the unexpected.
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