{"id":291,"date":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=291"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:23","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-263\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #263"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Increment: Reliability] Tracing a path to observability<\/a><\/div>\n
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They make a really clear case for why traditional metrics and monitoring couldn\u2019t help them solve their problems.<\/p>\n

Mads Hartmann<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Glynn Lunney\u200a\u2014\u200aSRE Leadership<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article commemorates the death of NASA flight director Glynn Lunney by showing the SRE lessons we can learn from him.<\/p>\n

Robert Barron<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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7 top Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) job interview questions<\/a><\/div>\n
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I like that this focuses on human factors.<\/p>\n

Kevin Casey<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How to Scale for Reliability and Trust<\/a><\/div>\n
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Dealing with both the increased expectations and challenges of reliability as you scale is difficult. You\u2019ll need to maintain your development velocity and build customer trust through transparency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

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Engineering Failover Handling in Uber\u2019s Mobile Networking Infrastructure<\/a><\/div>\n
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Uber\u2019s customers are especially likely to be moving around and going in and out of tunnels, losing connectivity along the way. That means it\u2019s difficult to tell when the client should fail over to a different server.<\/p>\n

Sivabalan Narayanan, Rajesh Mahindra, and Christopher Francis \u2014 Uber<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Incident review: Service outage on 25 October 2020<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s one I missed from last November. Some good stuff to learn from, especially if you run Vault on kubernetes.<\/p>\n

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This outage was caused by a cascading failure stemming from our secrets management engine, which is a dependency of almost all of the production GoCardless services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ben Wheatley \u2014 GoCardless<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n