{"id":320,"date":"2021-08-31T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=320"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:39:51","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-275\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #275"},"content":{"rendered":"

View on sreweekly.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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A message from our sponsor, StackHawk:<\/h2>\n

Join ZAP Founder & Project Lead Simon Bennetts on June 30 for a live AMA where he will be answering questions on all things open source and AppSec. Register:
\nhttp:\/\/sthwk.com\/Simon-AMA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Articles<\/h2>\n
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Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a take on incident severity levels. I enjoy learning what criteria folks use for this, so please send similar articles my way (or maybe write your own?).<\/p>\n

Nancy Chauhan \u2014 Rootly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Counterfactuals are not Causality<\/a><\/div>\n
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Counterfactuals (\u201cshould haves\u201d) stifle incident retrospectives by tempting us to stop digging deeper. This article points out that there are unending possible counterfactuals for any incident.<\/p>\n

Michael Nygard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Don\u2019t count your incidents, make your incidents count<\/a><\/div>\n
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Read to find out how counting incidents (or \u201c# days since an outage\u201d) won\u2019t help and will cause more problems than it\u2019s worth. Also included: options for what to count instead.<\/p>\n

incident.io<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SLOs should be easy, say hi to Sloth<\/a><\/div>\n
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Sloth is a tool for generating SLOs as Prometheus metrics, claiming to support \u201cany kind of service\u201d.<\/p>\n

Xabier Larrakoetxea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Evaluating where your team lies on the SRE spectrum<\/a><\/div>\n
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If you\u2019re looking for a way to evaluate your SRE process, this might help.<\/p>\n

Alex Bramley \u2014 Google<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Cost of 100% Reliability<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article tries to put an actual number on the cost of adding more nines of reliability.<\/p>\n

Jack Shirazi \u2014 Expedia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2021 SRE Report<\/a><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s time for Catchpoint\u2019s yearly SRE report, downloadable in PDF form through this link. Note: you have to give them your email address.<\/p>\n

Catchpoint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

Akamai<\/a><\/p>\n

This outage impacted banks and airlines, among other Akamai customers.<\/p>\n

SRE WEEKLY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Join ZAP Founder & Project Lead Simon Bennetts on June 30 for a live AMA where he will be answering questions on all things open source and AppSec. Register: http:\/\/sthwk.com\/Simon-AMA Articles Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels Here\u2019s a take on incident severity levels. 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