{"id":282,"date":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=282"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-261\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #261"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What Do Fighter Pilots and Incident Management Have in Common?<\/a><\/div>\n
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I find it really refreshing that fighter pilots have a retrospective about every single mission, successful or not. There\u2019s always something to learn.<\/p>\n

Jessica Abelson \u2014 Transposit<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Incident Response at Heroku<\/a><\/div>\n
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Heroku applies the Incident Management System, designating an Incident Commander who keeps the incident on track and oversees communications, both external and internal.<\/p>\n

Guillaume Winter \u2014 Heroku<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How Khan Academy Successfully Handled 2.5x Traffic in a Week<\/a><\/div>\n
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This story is becoming common: Khan had a sudden influx of traffic when pandemic lockdowns began. Their strategy involved the use of the cloud and a CDN.<\/p>\n

Marta Kosarchyn \u2014 Khan Academy<\/small><\/p>\n

Full disclosure: Fastly, my employer, is mentioned.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Under the Hood: Ensuring Site Reliability<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a great summary of how Squarespace does SRE.<\/p>\n

Franklin Angulo \u2014 Squarespace<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[Increment: Reliability] Reliability at scale<\/a><\/div>\n
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Leaders at Deliveroo, DigitalOcean, Fastly, and Headspace share how their organizations think about reliability and resiliency and their advice to engineering orgs embarking on reliability journeys.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The leaders each answer a series of questions about how their organization handles reliability, giving an interesting compare-and-contrast overview.<\/p>\n

Increment<\/small><\/p>\n

Full disclosure: Fastly is my employer.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[Increment: Reliability] Case study: Resilience as adaptability at Freshworks<\/a><\/div>\n
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Using a disaster plan created after a devastating hurricane, Freshworks survived and thrived during the pandemic, delivering a major new product by its pre-pandemic deadline.<\/p>\n

Ipsita Agarwal \u2014 Increment<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What Is a Canary Deployment?<\/a><\/div>\n
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This one explains what a canary deployment is, how it can help you, and how canary deployments differ from blue\/green deployments.<\/p>\n

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

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How to Build an SRE Team with a Growth Mindset<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article explains the meaning of a growth mindset and shows how it applies to SRE.<\/p>\n

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

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