FireDrill GameDays at Sky Betting & Gaming

Running GameDays at SB&G and the lessons learned

Author:

Paul Whitehead

Category:

Operations

Time:

11 minute read

Performance Enhancing Packages

Performance is everything in this industry, even the little wins make a big difference.

Author:

Joe Mills

Time:

4 minute read

Being Right Is Just the Beginning

As an industry we’re obsessed with being smart. And that’s ok - good even, in the right context. But to get what we want we need to stop being the smartest person in the room and start being the most helpful in the room

Author:

Leigh Hall

Category:

Security

Time:

7 minute read

Destigmatising Mistakes: A Game Launch Incident Review

Making a mistake can be a horrible feeling. Guilt, shame, fear and anxiety all rolled into one. So in order to try reduce this pressure, I’m sharing a recent mistake our team made.

Category:

Incident Response

Time:

6 minute read

It's Just a Monitoring Change

Have you ever had a seemingly innocuous change to one system affect another in a catastrophic way? If yes, you might notice a few familiar themes in this write-up. If no, then read it now, before it’s too late.

Category:

Incident Response

Time:

11 minute read

Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments

When migrating services to shiny new cloud-native infrastructure, special care must be taken to ensure that releases that were zero-downtime continue to be so. When said service is the login system for your entire customer-facing product offering, a little extra effort is probably needed

Category:

Operations

Time:

10 minute read

Visualising Complex Systems

I recently gave a Tech Talk called “Beyond Dashboards - Visualising Complex Systems”

Author:

Andy Burgin

Category:

Community

Time:

1 minute read

"What's the worst that could happen?": A worked example of how we deal with live incidents.

This post is going to outline roughly how we make changes, and what we should do when those changes go bad. Using an incident that actually occurred as an example of how we should deal with these incidents, and how we did in that specific case.

Author:

Craig Stewart

Category:

Devops

Time:

10 minute read

Rising from the Ashes

We’ve always enjoyed running incident response drills, but they were becoming stale. This post covers how we addressed the problems with our fire drills and iterated upon them

Category:

Operations

Time:

8 minute read

performance.now() Conference 2019.

Key takeaways from the 2019 performance.now() conference in Amsterdam

Author:

Paul Whitehead

Category:

Conferences

Time:

15 minute read