SREview Issue #4 August 2020
Tags: sre, devops
Published: 2020-08-21 16:45:20

Here’s the August issue of SREview! This monthly zine features epic Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community.
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#Tweets that have us twittering#
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#SREading#
[Five Ways to Improve Developer Velocity](https://www.rookout.com/blog/five-ways-to-improve-developer-velocity): This blog post details how teams can improve developer velocity by discovering timewasters, bottlenecks, the correct data, and more.

[The Importance of Reliability Engineering](https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-importance-of-reliability-engineering): This blog looks at three big benefits of investing in reliability and explains how you can get started on your journey to reliability excellence.

[Iterable sees a 43% reduction in critical incidents with Blameless](https://www.blameless.com/case-study/iterable-sees-a-43-reduction-in-critical-incidents-with-blameless): Learn how Blameless helped Iterable decrease critical incidents and shave 2-3 hours of incident retrospectives.

[Debugging engineering velocity and leading high-performing teams](https://leaddev.com/debugging-engineering-velocity-and-leading-high-performing-teams): Smruti Patel defines engineering velocity in terms of shipping software with precision, speed, quality and impact.

[Resilience in Action, E5: Tammy Bryant and Eric Roberts The Importance of Glue Work](https://www.blameless.com/blog/resilience-in-action-episode-5): In our third episode, Amy chats with Tammy Bryant and Eric Roberts about glue work.
#Give it a whirl#
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#Upcoming events#
[Blameless Bi-Weekly Demo](https://www.blameless.com/resources/bi-weekly-live-demo-of-blameless) August 25 8 AM PST: We will walk you through an incident and share our product capabilities across incident resolution, postmortems, reliability insights, and more.

[August SRE Leaders Panel](https://blameless.zoom.us/webinar/register/6415961426255/WN_AHM1sbyaTsaGRtMDLS07LA) August 26 at 10AM PST: Shelby Spees, Talia Nassi, and Amy Tobey will be diving deep into testing in production including.

[Are We All on the Same Page? Let's Fix That](https://99percentdevops.com/?utm_source=blameless&utm_medium=partner#upcoming) September 17 at 11 AM PST: Luis Mineiro, Head of SRE at Zalando will be giving a talk for 99 Percent DevOps on Adaptive Paging and how to do on-call better.

[DevOps World 2020](https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world) September 22-24: this virtual conference brings together thought leaders, practitioners, and community contributors to talk about the future of software delivery.
#Want to contribute?#
If you’re looking to share your insights with the SRE and resilience engineering community, we’d love to partner with you on content. Fill out our [form here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7IKlTn6BKwzG1_c-YJeo5LfsvyqrkZn2tvM28zxkeEejlLw/viewform?usp=sf_link) and we’ll reach out!