{"id":455,"date":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=455"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/sre-weekly-issue-285\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #285"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Check out the latest from StackHawk\u2019s Chief Security Officer, Scott Gerlach, on why security should be part of building software, and how StackHawk helps teams catch vulns before prod.
\nhttps:\/\/sthwk.com\/cloudnative<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Articles<\/h2>\n
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Computers are the easy part<\/a><\/div>\n
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What\u2019s so great about this incident write-up is the way that entrenched mental models hampered the incident response. There\u2019s so much to learn here.<\/p>\n

Ray Ashman \u2014 Mailchimp<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rethinking Best Practices<\/a><\/div>\n
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The parallels between this and the Mailchimp\u00a0article are striking.<\/p>\n

Will Gallego<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How to Improve Upon Google\u2019s Four Golden Signals of Monitoring<\/a><\/div>\n
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This includes a review of the four golden signals and presents three areas to go further.<\/p>\n

JJ Tang \u2014 Rootly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Root cause of failure, root cause of success<\/a><\/div>\n
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This one thoughtfully discusses why \u201croot cause\u201d is a flawed concept, approaching the idea from multiple directions.<\/p>\n

Lorin Hochstein<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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IBM PREVAIL Conference: October 19\u201321, 2021<\/a><\/div>\n
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Check it out, a new SRE conference! This one\u2019s virtual and the CFP is open until October 1.<\/p>\n

Robert Barron \u2014 IBM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards<\/a><\/div>\n
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To be clear, this article is about static<\/em> dashboards that just contain pre-set graphs of specific metrics.<\/p>\n

every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question<\/p>\n

Charity Majors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What makes public posts about incidents different from analysis write-ups<\/a><\/div>\n
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Public incident posts give us useful insight into how companies analyze their incidents, but it\u2019s important to remember that they\u2019re almost never the same as internal incident write-ups.<\/p>\n

John Allspaw \u2014 Adaptive Capacity Labs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Heroku Incident #2300 Follow-Up<\/a><\/div>\n
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In this incident from July 7, front-line routing hosts exceeded their file descriptor limits, causing requests to be delayed and dropped.<\/p>\n

Heroku<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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TLDs \u2014 Putting the \u2018.fun\u2019 in the top of the DNS<\/a><\/div>\n
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.io, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory is almost exclusively used by annoying startups for content completely unrelated to the islands.<\/p>\n

Remember, it\u2019s all fun and games until the random country you\u2019ve attached your business to has an outage in their TLD DNS infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Jan Schaumann<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store<\/a><\/div>\n
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If you\u2019re curious about just what a columnar data store is like I was, this article is a good introduction.<\/p>\n

Alex Vondrak \u2014 Honeycomb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

Google Voice<\/a>
\nHeroku<\/a>
\nNational Health Service (UK)<\/a>
\nBoston Public Library<\/a>
\nSRE WEEKLY<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Check out the latest from StackHawk\u2019s Chief Security Officer, Scott Gerlach, on why security should be part of building software, and how StackHawk helps teams catch vulns before prod. https:\/\/sthwk.com\/cloudnative Articles Computers are the easy part What\u2019s so great about this incident write-up is the way… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #285<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":255,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-252\/","url_meta":{"origin":455,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #252","date":"August 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Interested in how you can automate application security testing with GitHub Actions? 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