Kit Merker

Kit Merker is Chief Operating Officer for Nobl9. Prior to Nobl9, Kit helped grow JFrog into a multi-billion-dollar company and worked as a product manager for Kubernetes and related container initiatives for Google Cloud. Before that he spent 10 years at Microsoft, where he worked on several products - Windows, Azure, Office 365, & Bing.

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Announcing SLOconf 2023: A Global Event With a Local Feel

Dec 12, 2022

I’m pleased to announce that SLOconf 2023 will be on May 15-18! You can register and submi...

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Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience, Monitoring/Observability, Featured

Naming Conventions for Labeling SLOs

Nov 23, 2022

Naming things is hard. Naming conventions are a simple way to ensure everyone understands ...

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Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience, Featured, SLO

Measuring Technology ROI: SLOs for CFOs

Jun 2, 2021

Imagine this: you’re the CFO of a large company, and your job is to ensure the business’ f...

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Error Budget, Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Customer Experience

Driving SLO Adoption through CICD

May 18, 2021

The most persistent question in the world of SRE-hopefuls: How do you get developers in yo...

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Error Budget, Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Cross-Team Alignment

SLOconf Speaker Profile: Steve McGhee

Apr 26, 2021

Steve McGhee, Reliability Advocacy Engineer for Google, spoke to us about SLOs and our upc...

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Error Budget, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

SLOconf Speaker Profile: Alina Anderson

Apr 20, 2021

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Alina Anderson, Senior TPM of Site Reliabi...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Cross-Team Alignment, Customer Experience

Why Your Marketing Site Needs Reliability Targets (SLOs) Too

Apr 7, 2021

I’ve heard it from engineers a thousand times, “Our software works great; it’s just our ma...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Cross-Team Alignment, Customer Experience

The Edge of Excellence: How to Delight Customers at Scale in Digital Services

Mar 23, 2021

“How much unreliability can we get away with?“ Seems like a strange question for a busines...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

Tame the YAML in 2021

Jan 4, 2021

Nobl9 COO Kit Merker joined TFiR’s Swapnil Bhartiya to talk about what he sees on the hori...

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Error Budget, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

The Ultimate Guide to Reliability Talks at re:Invent 2020

Nov 30, 2020

This year AWS re:Invent has gone online. While the overall schedule has a ton of great con...

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Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

SREs: Stop Asking Your Product Managers for SLOs

Nov 23, 2020

Originally published at DevOps.com on October 30th, 2020 One of the fundamental premises o...

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Error Budget, Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

Going to KubeCon in Search of Reliability Talks? The Ultimate Guide.

Nov 12, 2020

If you’re into SLOs and you’re going to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America November 17...

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Front Page, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

Nobl9 and Lightstep Partner to Integrate Distributed Tracing Technology into SLO Management Platform

Nov 5, 2020

UPDATE: Nobl9 is now GA. Try it today Press release: November 5, 2020 Joint development ef...

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Front Page, Error Budget, Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Cross-Team Alignment, Customer Experience

Delivering the Right Data for Better SLOs with Nobl9 & New Relic

Nov 2, 2020

UPDATE: Nobl9 is now GA. Try it today Originally published at New Relic on November 2nd, 2...

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Front Page, Error Budget, Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Cross-Team Alignment, Customer Experience

Nobl9 & Adobe Systems: Let’s Talk SLOs for OpenStack

Oct 22, 2020

Delivering reliable software services is a challenge for any team running infrastructure, ...

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Front Page, Error Budget, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

5 “Reasons” I Hate SLOs

Sep 9, 2020

Excuses! I’ve heard them all. When it comes to why people “hate” Service Level Objectives ...

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Error Budget, Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

Nobl9 and Datadog: Better Data Makes Better SLOs

Aug 18, 2020

At Nobl9, we’ve been working hard to build our service level objective (SLO) platform that...

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Error Budget, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

Reliability Evolution from Datacenter to Cloud: Interview with Less Lincoln, SRE at Microsoft

Aug 6, 2020

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Want a Reputation for Reliability? Keep it Simple. Interview with Matt Klein

Aug 4, 2020

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Nobl9 Demo: GitOps Ready sloctl and SLO YAML

Aug 3, 2020

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Nobl9 Demo: Kubernetes Cluster Failover Scenario

Aug 3, 2020

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Nobl9 Demo: Setting up a Prometheus SLO with the Web UI

Aug 3, 2020

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What is an SLO? Explained in 90 Seconds

Aug 3, 2020

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SLO Many Talks About Reliability at KubeCon: Here Are Our Picks

Aug 2, 2020

The Ultimate Guide to SLOs at KubeCon Europe If you’re into SLOs and you’re going to Kube...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

Creeping Latency Metrics: Review of a Subtle Kubernetes Serverless Scalability Bug

Jul 28, 2020

TL;DR—To avoid scalability cliffs, you should pay attention to creeping latency. Think of ...

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Error Budget, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

Measuring and Optimizing CPU Performance

Jul 10, 2020

Software engineers are under constant pressure to make their desktop, laptop, and client a...

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Error Budget, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

Kubernetes Knative Serverless Latency Metrics: Interview with Matt Moore

Jul 1, 2020

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Nobl9 Has Joined The Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Jun 29, 2020

Today we are proud to announce that Nobl9 has become a Silver member of the Cloud Native C...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

Optimizing Cloud Costs through Service Level Objectives

Jun 23, 2020

Are you spending too much on cloud services? Is there a way to optimize your cloud spend a...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

What is Five 9s Availability? Do you really need 99.999% Server Uptime?

Jun 15, 2020

What is five 9s availability? Nines are a unit of measurement used to describe the reliabi...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

Creating Your First SLO: A Discussion Guide

May 29, 2020

Congratulations! You are ready to sit down with your team and establish your first Service...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

You’re Not Google. And, Yes, You Still Need SLOs

May 13, 2020

Much of the available literature about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Service Leve...

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Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

How do we measure the customer experience?

May 13, 2020

So many interactions with customers are going through digital channels that you’d think it...

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Product Management, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering, Customer Experience

An Easy Way to Explain SLOs and SLAs to Business Executives

May 13, 2020

If you appreciate the irony of TLA (a recursive acronym for “three-letter acronym”) this b...

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Service Level Objectives (SLO), Cross-Team Alignment, Customer Experience, Featured

SRE 101: The SRE Toolset

May 13, 2020

What tools do you need to get started with SRE? Much has been written, especially by the f...

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Error Budget, Service Level Objectives (SLO), Site Reliability Engineering

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