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I’ve occasionally wondered what’s behind Slack’s /remind or “clear my away status after my vacation ends”. Now I know!
Claire Adams
This article is an exploration of consistency and coordination in distributed systems, with lots of really interesting examples.
Lorin Hochstein
Lots of good stuff in here, including infrastructure, monitoring, and incident management tools.
saifeddine Rajhi
my first conference
Whew, way to dive into the deep end!
Mike [surname unknown] — SREZone
This article explains why circuit breakers are especially useful in microservice architectures based on Lambda. It explains how to implement circuit breakers using Step Functions.
Satrajit Basu — DZone
Definitely some interesting (and spicy!) takes in this one.
Code Reliant
When you’re at LinkedIn’s scale, building an automated abuse mitigation means designing for high throughput. The answer: lots of caching.
Amit Mathapati — LinkedIn
A short but thought-provoking article about where SREs belong in the management heirarchy, and why.
Jamie Allen
SRE WEEKLY