{"id":459,"date":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/?p=459"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:06:17","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/sre-weekly-issue-286\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #286"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Trying to scale AppSec across engingeering is no joke. Check out the 3 main reasons developers struggle with AppSec and how to make it better.
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Kill It With Fire<\/a><\/div>\n
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This is a review of Marianne Bellotti\u2019s Kill It With Fire<\/em> a book about modernizing legacy systems. It focuses heavily on operational concepts and \u201cthe system around the system\u201d, with a heavy SRE influence.<\/p>\n

Laura Nolan \u2014 ;login:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why every software engineering interview should include ops questions<\/a><\/div>\n
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Originally drafted in 2016, this blog post is even more relevant now. Beyond just the \u201cwhy\u201d, it has several ideas for interview questions to get you started.<\/p>\n

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

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The power of framing a problem<\/a><\/div>\n
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Tell a good story, and you can make things happen.<\/p>\n

As SREs, we often know<\/em> what needs to be done, but convincing others is a hard-won skill.<\/p>\n

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

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Easyjet A320 tells United Boeing 787 to GO AROUND!<\/a><\/div>\n
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In this video report of a commercial aviation accident, there\u2019s a neat discussion of resiliency toward the end. There were several other layers of protection that (probably) would have caught and prevented this incident if the A320 captain hadn\u2019t intervened. And even though no accident occurred, there was still a \u201cnear miss\u201d investigation.<\/p>\n

Mentor Pilot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Role of SREs in Observability<\/a><\/div>\n
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Although conversation about observability often ignores SREs, SREs have a central role to play in observability success.<\/p>\n

Quentin Rousseau \u2014 Rootly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cascading retries and the sulky applications<\/a><\/div>\n
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In a microservice architecture, having retries several levels deep can be a recipe for nastiness.<\/p>\n

Oren Eini \u2014 RavenDB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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GitHub Availability Report: August 2021<\/a><\/div>\n
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This report has some detail on two major incidents experienced by GitHub last month.<\/p>\n

Scott Sanders \u2014 GitHub<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Trying to scale AppSec across engingeering is no joke. Check out the 3 main reasons developers struggle with AppSec and how to make it better. https:\/\/sthwk.com\/3-reasons Articles Kill It With Fire This is a review of Marianne Bellotti\u2019s Kill It With Fire a book about modernizing… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #286<\/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-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":252,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-255\/","url_meta":{"origin":459,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #255","date":"August 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: With StackHawk\u2019s new GitHub Action, you can integrate AppSec testing directly into your GitHub CI\/CD pipeline. 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