{"id":269,"date":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=269"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:46","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-257\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #257"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sreweekly.com\/sre-weekly-issue-257\/\" title=\"Permalink to SRE Weekly Issue #257\" class=\"email_only\">View on sreweekly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-sponsor-message\">\n<h2>A message from our sponsor, StackHawk:<\/h2>\n<p>Keeping your APIs secure requires thoughtful design and testing. Learn how to protect your REST, SOAP and GraphQL APIs from security vulnerabilities with StackHawk<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sthwk.com\/api-protection\">http:\/\/sthwk.com\/api-protection<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Articles<\/h2>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/utcc.utoronto.ca\/~cks\/space\/blog\/sysadmin\/AlertsHaveIntentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sometimes alerts have inobvious reasons for existing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>This one really got me thinking. Make sure you document <em>why<\/em> an alert exists, not just what it checks for.<\/p>\n<p><small>Chris Siebenmann<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.effx.com\/incident-response-from-monolith-to-microservices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Incident response from monolith to microservices<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>If you start with a monolith and adopt a microservice architecture, your incident response process will need to change as well.<\/p>\n<p><small>Mya Pitzeruse \u2014 effx<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.fb.com\/2021\/02\/09\/uncategorized\/minesweeper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Another one that needs a disclaimer: there\u2019s no single \u201croot cause\u201d for an incident, and this article is not about that. This is about using statistical software to aid humans in debugging by looking at the activities performed by different users before they encounter a given bug.<\/p>\n<p><small>Vijay Murali, Edward Yao, Umang Mathur, Satish Chandra \u2014 Facebook<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeycomb.io\/blog\/fostering-resilient-organizations-why-i-joined-honeycomb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Not Being a Cog in the Machine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>A new SRE at Honeycomb shares insight on the job and SRE attitudes in general.<\/p>\n<p><small>Fred Hebert \u2014 Honeycomb<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/surfingcomplexity.blog\/2021\/02\/08\/slacks-jan-2021-outage-a-tale-of-saturation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slack\u2019s Jan 2021 outage: a tale of saturation<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>This post considers the January 4th Slack outage as a set of cases of saturation.<\/p>\n<p><small>Lorin Hochstein<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Outages<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"sreweekly-outages\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/cbs-all-access-crashes-ahead-of-super-bowl-kickoff\/\">CBS All Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/news\/mgm-sportsbook-outage-on-super-bowl-sunday-due-to-human-error\/article_da64266a-6c7c-11eb-a894-d7f95cc384d0.html\">MGM sportsbook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalsportsreport.com\/47997\/us-sportsbooks-down-super-bowl\/\">Various other sportsbooks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/gaming\/1396701\/Steam-DOWN-Steam-servers-offline-as-Lunar-New-Year-sale-breaks-website-store\">Steam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shepherdgazette.com\/microsoft-groups-experiencing-outage-notably-on-west-coast\/\">Microsoft Groups<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/02\/12\/notion-outage-dns-domain-issues\/\">Notion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/status.cloud.google.com\/incident\/cloud-networking\/21002\">Google Cloud Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SRE WEEKLY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Keeping your APIs secure requires thoughtful design and testing. Learn how to protect your REST, SOAP and GraphQL APIs from security vulnerabilities with StackHawk http:\/\/sthwk.com\/api-protection Articles Sometimes alerts have inobvious reasons for existing This one really got me thinking. Make sure you document why an alert&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-257\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SRE Weekly Issue #257<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":463,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/sre-weekly-issue-287\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #287","date":"September 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Trying to figure out how to keep your APIs secure? You\u2019re not the only one. 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