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This is a new spin on dependency-based attacks that has interesting implications for reliability.
Christoph Treude — The Conversation
In a counterpoint to the articles I linked to last week, this engineer expects that the Twitter infrastructure will keep trucking on for awhile due to automation and redundancy.
Rory Bathgate — ITPro
When folks use blaming language, bring up counterfactuals, or exhibit other suboptimal behaviors in a retrospective, what’s a good way to respond, and what doesn’t work as well?
Fred Hebert
Cloudflare uses a novel approach to make the most out of a limited number of IPv4 addresses for outgoing traffic: “soft-unicast”.
Marek Majkowski — Cloudflare
After attending my first retrospective at Honeycomb, I wrote this article about how they establish expectations and shared context at the start of the meeting.
Lex Neva — Honeycomb
Pilot incapacitation, an argument, and a broader rift between cohorts of pilots were just some of the many contributing factors in this air accident. In response to this 1972 accident, the UK mandated cockpit voice recorders on all commercial flights.
Admiral Cloudberg
SRE WEEKLY