190 Countries and 5 CORE SREs by Jonah Horowitz How does Netflix scale SRE? How do we manage over 70 million customers around the world without a 24/7 operations center? With tens of thousands of Linux instances in a distributed system architecture, and thousands of daily production changes, it’s an environment that’s both challenging and… Continue reading SRE Netflix at SRECon
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SRE Weekly Issue #285
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Check out the latest from StackHawk’s Chief Security Officer, Scott Gerlach, on why security should be part of building software, and how StackHawk helps teams catch vulns before prod. https://sthwk.com/cloudnative Articles Computers are the easy part What’s so great about this incident write-up is the way… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #285
CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine for web-scale services
Caching plays an important role in helping people access their information efficiently. For example, when an email app loads, it temporarily caches some messages, so the user can refresh the page without the app retrieving the same messages. However, large-scale caching has long been a complex engineering challenge. Companies must balance the fast experience people… Continue reading CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine for web-scale services
SRE Weekly Issue #286
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Trying to scale AppSec across engingeering is no joke. Check out the 3 main reasons developers struggle with AppSec and how to make it better. https://sthwk.com/3-reasons Articles Kill It With Fire This is a review of Marianne Bellotti’s Kill It With Fire a book about modernizing… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #286
How WhatsApp is enabling end-to-end encrypted backups
For years, in order to safeguard the privacy of people’s messages, WhatsApp has provided end-to-end encryption by default so messages can be seen only by the sender and recipient, and no one in between. Now, we’re planning to give people the option to protect their WhatsApp backups using end-to-end encryption as well. People can already… Continue reading How WhatsApp is enabling end-to-end encrypted backups
SRE Weekly Issue #287
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Trying to figure out how to keep your APIs secure? You’re not the only one. See how DataRobot is automating API security testing with StackHawk. https://sthwk.com/DataRobot Articles Industry Interviews: Colm Doyle, Incident Commander at Slack Lots of details about how Slack does incident response in this… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #287
Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps
Managing app size at Facebook is a unique challenge: Every day, developers check in large volumes of code, and each line of code translates into additional bits in the apps that people ultimately download onto their phones. Left unchecked, this added code would make the app bigger and bigger until eventually the time it takes… Continue reading Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps
SRE Weekly Issue #288
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Want to see what’s new with automated security tooling? Tune in on September 30 to see how StackHawk and Semgrep are making it possible to embed security testing in CI/CD. https://sthwk.com/whats-new-webinar Articles Tammy Bryant Butow on SRE Apprentices Faced with a difficult hiring market for SREs,… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #288
SRE Weekly Issue #255
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: With StackHawk’s new GitHub Action, you can integrate AppSec testing directly into your GitHub CI/CD pipeline. See how: http://sthwk.com/appsec-github-action Articles Why It Should Be Service, Not Site Reliability It really should! Even Google is much more accurately described as a “service” than a “site”. Chris Riley… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #255
SRE Weekly Issue #254
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Need to run a standalone Kotlin app as a fat jar in a Gradle project? Check out how we handled that! http://sthwk.com/kotlin-with-gradle Articles Coinbase Incident Post Mortem: January 6–7, 2021 This one’s juicy. At one point, the front-end was blocked up, so the back-end saw less… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #254