{"id":273,"date":"2021-08-31T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:40:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:24","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-258\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #258"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sreweekly.com\/sre-weekly-issue-258\/\" title=\"Permalink to SRE Weekly Issue #258\" 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>On February 25 at 10 am PT we are going to show you how easy it is to add application security testing to a #GitLab pipeline. Save your spot for our live session<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sthwk.com\/gitlab-stackhawk-automation\">http:\/\/sthwk.com\/gitlab-stackhawk-automation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Articles<\/h2>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willgallego.com\/2021\/02\/15\/practiced-humility-in-retrospectives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Practiced Humility in Retrospectives<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>When acting as a retrospective facilitator, there\u2019s a huge potential to color the discussion with our words and actions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You\u2019re there to position other folks to learn, not wear the badge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small>Will Gallego<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/upgundecha\/howtheysre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub Repo: upgundecha\/howtheysre<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>upgundecha\/howtheysre: A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world practice Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A huge thanks to the curator for the many awesome links in this repo! Some have been featured here in previous issues, and some are new to me. As I go through those, I\u2019ll share my favorites here and tell you why I think you should read them.<\/p>\n<p><small>Unmesh Gundecha<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ably.io\/blog\/engineering-dependability-and-fault-tolerance-in-a-distributed-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engineering dependability and fault tolerance in a distributed system<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small>Paddy Byers \u2014 Ably<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/en\/news\/phishing-complaints-cause-notion-outage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phishing complaints cause Notion outage<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>More details on the Notion outage mentioned here last week. Complaints of phishing by a Notion user resulted in their registrar pulling their domain name out of DNS.<\/p>\n<p><small>Peter Judge \u2014 Datacenter Dynamics<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/googlecloud\/2021\/02\/17\/what-is-true-resilience-hint-its-not-about-managing-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Is True Resilience? (Hint: It\u2019s Not About Managing Risk)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Google has three guiding principles for improving resiliency:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Create maximum observability of the overall system<\/li>\n<li>Design for effectiveness, not perfection<\/li>\n<li>Learn and iterate as you go<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small>Will Grannis \u2014 Google<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blameless.com\/blog\/4-things-you-need-to-know-about-writing-better-production-readiness-checklists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 Things you Need to Know about Writing Better Production Readiness Checklists<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>This is an awesome guide to writing a production-ready checklist \u2014 and why you\u2019d want one.<\/p>\n<p><small>Emily Arnott \u2014 Blameless<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.fb.com\/2021\/02\/17\/developer-tools\/fix-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fix Fast for finding and fixing regressions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Facebook found that as a regression is discovered later, it will take much longer to deploy a fix. With a combination of heuristics and machine learning, they\u2019re detecting regressions earlier and bringing them to the attention of folks that can fix them.<\/p>\n<p><small>Jian Zhang and Brian Keller \u2014 Facebook<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Outages<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"sreweekly-outages\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=issue&amp;sid=20&amp;iid=6f46dee6ba69ea95a228c5998b7153aa\">Google Voice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carbuzz.com\/news\/kia-denies-being-hacked-after-entire-connected-car-network-collapses\">Kia<\/a>\n<ul class=\"sreweekly-outage\">\n<li class=\"sreweekly-outage\">Kia had an outage in the internet-enabled features of some of their cars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/disney-plus-down-wandavision-episode-7-release\/\">Disney+<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/pmn\/business-pmn\/microsoft-teams-down-for-hundreds-of-users-downdetector-com\">Microsoft Teams<\/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: On February 25 at 10 am PT we are going to show you how easy it is to add application security testing to a #GitLab pipeline. Save your spot for our live session http:\/\/sthwk.com\/gitlab-stackhawk-automation Articles Practiced Humility in Retrospectives When acting as a retrospective facilitator, there\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-258\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SRE Weekly Issue #258<\/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-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":252,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-255\/","url_meta":{"origin":273,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #255","date":"August 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: With StackHawk\u2019s new GitHub Action, you can integrate AppSec testing directly into your GitHub CI\/CD pipeline. 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