Like last week, I prepared this week’s issue in advance, so no Outages section. Have a great week!
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Articles
Soundcloud is very clear on the fact that they are not at Google scale. It’s interesting to see how they apply SRE principles at their scale.
Björn “Beorn” Rabenstein — SoundCloud
Here’s why Target set up their ELK stack, and how they used it to troubleshoot a problem in ElasticSearch itself.
Dan Getzke — Target
A key point in this article is that calculating your error budget as just “100% – SLO” goes about things backward.
Adam Hammond — Squadcast
They periodically scale up their systems just to test and be sure they’ll be ready for big events like Black Friday / Cyber Monday.
Kathryn Tang — Shopify
In this post, we’ll focus on service ownership. Why is service ownership important? How should teams self-organize to achieve it? Where’s the best place to start?
Cortex
This fun troubleshooting story hinges around the internal details of how PostgreSQL’s sequences work.
Pete Hamilton — incident.io
SRE WEEKLY