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Articles
Itâs that time of year again, but maybe itâs time to rethink that code freeze.
Robert Ross â FireHydrant
This article really gets to the heart of why I love a good incident. I mean, obviously, I want to minimize, incidents. I swear.
Lisa Karlin Curtis â incident.io
This article draws on incident reports from The VOID to show how root cause analysis can be problematic.
Courtney Nash â Verica
Itâs interesting to read this article after reading the previous one. In the âmy car wonât startâ, I found myself immediately wondering, why was the vehicle not maintained? What factors contributed to that?
Søren Pedersen â Dzone
These are the âphasesâ, although they stress that aiming for Visionary doesnât make sense for all organizations.
Absent
Reactive
Proactive
Strategic
Visionary
Not the field I would have expected to look to for lessons, but it totally works!
Paul Marsicovetere â Formidable
This article introduces a 3-phased approach for safe database schema changes: Expand, Rollout, and Contract.
Alex Yates â Octopus Deploy
Try to run a program, and you get âNo such file or directoryâ, even though the program is right there. How can this happen?
Julia Evans
Outages
Google had a major outage that took down many sites and services. Notably, users of these sites were greeted with a Google 404 page with no branding related to the site they were attempting to access.
Tesla owners were locked out of their cars or unable to start them during the outage.
SRE WEEKLY