{"id":498,"date":"2021-11-01T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/sre-weekly-issue-294\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:06:07","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-294","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/sre-weekly-issue-294\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #294"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Five Steps To Reduce SRE Toil And Add More Value<\/a><\/div>\n
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The steps are:<\/p>\n

Know How Much Time Is Spent On Toil
\nFind The Toil
\nDetermine The Root Causes Of Toil
\nFind And Prioritize The Low-Hanging Fruit
\nPromote Toil Reduction<\/p>\n

Aater Suleman \u2014 Forbes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How we\u2019re building a production readiness review process at Grafana Labs<\/a><\/div>\n
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I like how they try to strike a balance and avoid reviewing too far in depth, while still hitting everything important.<\/p>\n

Milan Pl\u017e\u00edk \u2014 Grafana Labs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Seth Lochen of Groupon talks ownership and the bystander effect, platform engineering, and frogs in boiling water<\/a><\/div>\n
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Lots of good stuff in this one about one of my favorite topics, service ownership.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Rose \u2014 OpsLevel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How do CRDTs solve distributed data consistency challenges?<\/a><\/div>\n
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This is the intro I needed to understand Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types.<\/p>\n

Jo Stichbury \u2014 Ably<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Defining Availability, Maintainability and Reliability in SRE<\/a><\/div>\n
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Availability, maintainability and reliability all have distinct\u2014if related\u2014meanings, and they each play different roles in reliability operations.<\/p>\n

JJ Tang \u2014 DevOps.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Five-P factors for root cause analysis<\/a><\/div>\n
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The five Ps come from medicine and understanding medical accidents, but they apply equally well to analyzing incidents in IT.<\/p>\n

Lydia Leong<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Incident Review and Postmortem Best Practices<\/a><\/div>\n
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I really love the focus on de-emphasizing finding action items in incident retrospectives, in favor of learning.<\/p>\n

Gergely Orosz \u2014 The Pragmatic Engineer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

AT&T SMS in the US<\/a><\/p>\n

This week, I saw several status pages point to some kind of problem in their ability to send SMS notifications to AT&T phones. I thought this was interesting because usually I don\u2019t learn about an outage solely from other<\/em> companies\u2019 status pages.<\/p>\n

Google Meet<\/a>
\nTesco<\/a>
\nCoinbase<\/a>
\nZomato<\/a>
\nBarclays<\/a>
\nHSBC<\/a>
\nSRE WEEKLY<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly \ud83d\ude92. Automate manual admin tasks like creating incident channel, Jira and Zoom, paging the right team, postmortem timeline, setting up reminders, and more. 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