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Increment: Reliability<\/a><\/div>\n
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This quarter\u2019s Increment<\/em> issue is about Reliability, and I haven\u2019t had this much fun since their first issue about on-call<\/a>. I\u2019ll include a few of the articles here and more in later issues as I have a chance to review them.<\/p>\n

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

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[Increment: Reliability] Everything is broken, and it\u2019s okay<\/a><\/div>\n
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Accepting that imperfect things still work is fundamental to preventing failures from becoming catastrophes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Understanding that no system is without errors is critical to building resilient systems.<\/p>\n

Heidi Waterhouse<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[Increment: Reliability] How to build organizational resilience<\/a><\/div>\n
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The very first sentence sets the tone, and I love it:<\/p>\n

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Resilience is a process: something you must actively perform, not something you check off a list once.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ryn Daniels<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[Increment: Reliability] Embrace your inner incident commander<\/a><\/div>\n
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Most of all, having an incident commander only works if everyone believes in the role. Someone stepping in to address a crisis and saying \u201cI\u2019m Batman\u201d doesn\u2019t help unless people have bought into the idea of Batman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The next time I\u2019m incident commander, I am totally<\/em> going to jump in and say, \u201cI\u2019m Batman!\u201d.<\/p>\n

This article is a great primer on what an IC is and how to adopt incident command at your organization.<\/p>\n

Tanya Reilly<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Retry pattern in microservices<\/a><\/div>\n
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After reading this blog post, you will have an understanding of the retry pattern used in microservices architecture, why it should be used, a few considerations while using the retry pattern, and how to use it in Python.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love the W. C. Fields quote.<\/p>\n

Anand Prashant<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2021 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Survey Now Open<\/a><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s that time again! Be sure to fill out the survey, not only so they can gather useful data, but also because Catchpoint will donate $5 to charity.<\/p>\n

DevOps Institute, Catchpoint, and VMWare Tanzu<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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QA Engineers, This is How SRE will Transform your Role<\/a><\/div>\n
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When considering the value of a QA test, SLIs can provide very valuable context.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

SRE and QA can work hand in hand.<\/p>\n

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

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Silent data corruption: Mitigating effects at scale<\/a><\/div>\n
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This kind of thing keeps me up at night. Silent data corruption can destroy your reliability just as quickly as a backhoe on a non-redundant link.<\/p>\n

Harish Dattatraya Dixit \u2014 Facebook<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How Etsy Prepared for Historic Volumes of Holiday Traffic in 2020<\/a><\/div>\n
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Etsy experienced years of growth practically overnight in 2020 as quarantines set in. Here\u2019s how they handled it.<\/p>\n

Mike Adler \u2014 Etsy<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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