{"id":255,"date":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=255"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-252\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #252"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Articles<\/h2>\n
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Building On-Call Culture at GitHub<\/a><\/div>\n
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Their on-call started out as four 24 hour shifts per person interspersed throughout the year. Find out how they transitioned to a new approach in a process that spanned the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Mary Moore-Simmons \u2014 GitHub<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Google Cloud Issue Summary \u2014 Google Meet \u2014 2020-12-14<\/a><\/div>\n
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A new Meet version had a higher storage usage requirement, and a backend system filled up.<\/p>\n

Google<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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WTF is Alert Fatigue<\/a><\/div>\n
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This is webinar on alert fatigue, coming up on January 14.<\/p>\n

Sarah Wells \u2014 Financial Times<\/small><\/p>\n

Jamie Dobson \u2014 Container Solutions<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Announcing the Security Chaos Engineering Report<\/a><\/div>\n
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The chaos experiments you do for security purposes can often expose weak points in reliability as well.<\/p>\n

Aaron Rinehart \u2014 Verica<\/small><\/p>\n

Kelly Shortridge \u2014 Capsul8<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Little Known Ways to Better Use Your Error Budgets<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here are four nifty outside-the-box ideas to use the data you may already have.<\/p>\n

Emily Arnott \u2014 Blameless<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lessons learned in incident management<\/a><\/div>\n
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Their custom incident management tool, DropSEV, can detect incident-worthy availability drops and file an incident automatically, obviating the need for an engineer to decide on severity level on the fly.<\/p>\n

Joey Beyda and Ross Delinger \u2014 DropBox<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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GitHub Availability Report: December 2020<\/a><\/div>\n
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This one has some additional detail on a November outage involving MySQL replication lag.<\/p>\n

Keith Ballinger \u2014 GitHub<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n