{"id":477,"date":"2021-09-27T01:09:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/09\/27\/sre-weekly-issue-289\/"},"modified":"2021-09-27T01:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:09:41","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/09\/27\/sre-weekly-issue-289\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #289"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Semgrep and StackHawk are showing you what\u2019s new with automated security testing on September 30. Grab your spot:
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Articles<\/h2>\n
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How SREs are unique in their approach to work<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here are some things that make SREs a unique breed in software work:<\/p>\n

The one about Scrum caught my eye, and I followed the links through to the Stack Overflow post about SRE and Scrum.<\/p>\n

Ash P \u2014 Cruform<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Linux Page Cache for SRE<\/a><\/div>\n
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An in-depth explainer on the Linux page cache, full of details and experiments.<\/p>\n

Viacheslav Biriukov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Just got my first SRE job. I start tomorrow, any advice?<\/a><\/div>\n
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There\u2019s some great advice in this reddit thread\u2026 and maybe some tongue-in-cheek advice too.<\/p>\n

Take production down the first day they give access \u2014 then it\u2019s nothing but up from there!<\/p>\n

Various \u2014 reddit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dark Side of Self-Service<\/a><\/div>\n
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Using two real-world case studies, this article explains how developer self-service can go wrong, and then discusses how to avoid these pitfalls.<\/p>\n

Kaspar von Gr\u00fcnberg \u2014 humanitec<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What is expected in the SRE role? We analyzed 30 job postings to find out.<\/a><\/div>\n
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What a great idea! I found it especially interesting that only 34% of SRE job postings mention defining SLIs\/SLOs\/error budgets.<\/p>\n

Pruthvi \u2014 Spike.sh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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10 questions teams should be asking for faster incident response<\/a><\/div>\n
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For the first time, we\u2019ve created the State of Digital Operations Report which is based on PagerDuty platform data.
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\nwe will walk through some of these findings and share 10 questions teams can ask themselves to improve their incident response.<\/p>\n

Hannah Culver \u2014 PagerDuty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How to avoid bad assumptions during incidents<\/a><\/div>\n
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Incident response so often gets mired in assumptions that need to be re-evaluated. This article uses an incident as a case study<\/p>\n

Lawrence Jones \u2014 incident.io.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SRE vs. DevOps: What are the Differences?<\/a><\/div>\n
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This one lays out clear definitions of SRE and DevOps and compares and contrasts them.<\/p>\n

Mateus Gurgel \u2014 Rootly<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Merlion: A Machine Learning Library for Time Series<\/a><\/div>\n
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This week, Saleforce released Merlion, a Python library for time series machine learning and anomaly detection. Linked is an in-depth research paper on Merlin, explaining its theory of operation and experimental results.<\/p>\n

Bhatnagar et al. \u2014 Salesforce<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

reddit<\/a>
\nAtlassian Statuspage.io<\/a>
\nGiant Pay<\/a>
\nTrello<\/a><\/p>\n

Trello had major outages on two consecutive days (here<\/a>\u2018s the other).<\/p>\n

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

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Semgrep and StackHawk are showing you what\u2019s new with automated security testing on September 30. Grab your spot: https:\/\/sthwk.com\/whats-new-webinar Articles How SREs are unique in their approach to work Here are some things that make SREs a unique breed in software work: The one about Scrum… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #289<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":463,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/09\/20\/sre-weekly-issue-287\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #287","date":"September 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Trying to figure out how to keep your APIs secure? You\u2019re not the only one. 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