{"id":286,"date":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=286"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-262\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #262"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Prerequisites for Chaos Engineering<\/a><\/div>\n
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Chaos Engineering isn\u2019t adding chaos to your systems\u2014it\u2019s seeing the chaos that already exists in your systems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Along with four prerequisites, this article also includes 3 myths about chaos engineering that might be making you feel hesitant about starting.<\/p>\n

Courtney Nash \u2014 Verica<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Managing On-Call in a Pandemic<\/a><\/div>\n
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This one\u2019s from May of last year. Almost a year on, it\u2019s interesting to see which of these we\u2019ve already implemented.<\/p>\n

Ashley Roof \u2014 Transposit<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Being Just Reliable Enough<\/a><\/div>\n
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An amusing parable illustrating why not to try to be too<\/em> reliable.<\/p>\n

Andrew Ford \u2014 Indeed<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Google debunks Russian claims that fire was connected to service outage<\/a><\/div>\n
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In the Outages section of last week\u2019s issue, you\u2019ll find two unrelated events referenced in this article: one about Russian internet censorship gone awry and another about a major datacenter fire.<\/p>\n

Eric Johansson \u2014 Verdict<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How to Analyze Contributing Factors Blamelessly<\/a><\/div>\n
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Along with what\u2019s in the title, this article also covers the difference between an RCA and a contributing factors analysis.<\/p>\n

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

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Rethinking site capacity projections with Capacity Analyzer<\/a><\/div>\n
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Lots of detail on how LinkedIn is improving their traffic forecasts. Warning\/enticement: math contained within.<\/p>\n

Deepanshu Mehndiratta \u2014 LinkedIn<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Testing in Production for Safety and Sanity<\/a><\/div>\n
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Everyone is testing in production, some organizations admit and plan for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How to do it right, what can happen if it goes wrong, and how to limit the blast radius.<\/p>\n

Heidi Waterhouse \u2014 LaunchDarkly<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How we found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling<\/a><\/div>\n
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Remember when GitHub logged you out? Ah, I remember it like it was last week. I mean, the week before. Here\u2019s GitHub\u2019s troubleshooting story about what went wrong.<\/p>\n

Dirkjan Bussink \u2014 GitHub<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n