Blog Posts
A Multi-dimensional Maturity Model for Effective SRE Adoption
In today’s digital landscape, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has evolved from a niche discipline into a strategic capability. It enables enterprises to deliver reliable, adaptable, and compliant...
How we look at CI/CD: Platform, Pipeline, Process
Introduction and Background In modern software development, speed and reliability are no longer optional. Organizations must release features quickly, adapt to customer feedback, and maintain...
Reducing IT Operations Costs with an SRE-Driven Operating Model in the Digital Age
Key Takeaways Maintaining a sysadmin approach for cloud-based IT operations results in hidden costs that can be mitigated by adopting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Leveraging an SRE-driven...
Unlocking the Power of Continuous Delivery: A Benchmarking Journey
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to deliver software quickly and reliably is paramount. At Digital Architects Zurich, we understand the critical role that Continuous Integration...
Key Capabilities of a Modern Observability Tool
Introduction In a previous blog post, we introduced the key building blocks of Effective SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), which are Observability (often shortened with the numeronym “o11y”),...
Effective SRE Key Capabilities: Observability, OpenTelemetry and MELT
Observability is often understood as technical capability to expose critical indicators (i.e. the internal state) of a system/application. While this is one side of the story, Digital Architects...
Our Blueprint for a Digital Highway for Continous Software Delivery
Establishing Continuous Software Delivery does not have to be difficult! Learn how to leverage our "Blueprint for a Digital Highway" as market best-practice vision for software development and...
Reliability: The backbone of successful businesses
What if we told you that the only thing keeping your business from success is Reliability? A simple recipe of two main ingredients can define a company’ success and growth: The balance between new...
Effective SRE: Continuous Verification by applying AI to Continuous Delivery and Quality Gate automation
Faster delivery of software will fail without a highly engineered Continuous Delivery Pipeline. It not only ensures various application quality attributes, but also allows testing of the release...
EFFECTIVE SRE: SLO engineering and Error Budget
As part of our democratised approach for companies to adopt SRE, we have introduced in a previous blogpost our “Effective SRE” challenge triangle (see below). We then mentioned “SLO Engineering”...
Effective SRE Tooling for self-service Monitoring and Analytics
the design and implementation strategies we recommend setting up, and the Effective SRE tooling required to pilot the digital highway.
Effective SRE : How to democratize and apply Site Reliability Engineering in your organisation
we have developed, at Digital Architects Zurich, the “Effective SRE” as a practical method that organisations can use for a step by step adoption and roll-out of SRE.
Site Reliability Engineering – An Overview
If you let a software engineer come up with an ideal set-up for application operations, you will most likely hear about a concept that is very similar to that of Site Reliability...
A blueprint for the Digital Highway for Reliable and Continuous Software Delivery & Operations
With more than 20 years of field experience and working with the leading IT partners, Digital Architects Zurich developed a blueprint to support digital transformation. In this blog post, we will...