{"id":504,"date":"2021-11-15T02:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/11\/15\/sre-weekly-issue-296\/"},"modified":"2021-11-15T02:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:10:44","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/11\/15\/sre-weekly-issue-296\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #296"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Do you remember, the twenty fires of September?<\/a><\/div>\n
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WOW! This is the longest, most detailed public incident post I\u2019ve ever seen from any company. I\u2019ve linked to their short(er) summary, but be sure to check out the long version for all the juicy details.<\/p>\n

If we operate too far from the edge, we lose sight of it and can\u2019t anticipate when corrective work should be emphasized. If we operate too close to it, we are constantly in high-stakes situations and firefighting.<\/p>\n

Fred Hebert \u2014 Honeycomb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SLO Alerting for Mortals<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article goes through the actual math of creating an alert for an SLO, including how to avoid alerting for the entire sliding window even after the problem is fixed.<\/p>\n

Ervin Barta<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How do you manage your SLOs if all your requests depend on integrations with a lot of different third party services?<\/a><\/div>\n
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This reddit thread doesn\u2019t have any firm answers, but the discussion is pretty interesting.<\/p>\n

u\/faidoc and others \u2014 reddit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SRE Complete Resume Writing Guide<\/a><\/div>\n
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Good advice for writing resumes in general, with some SRE-specific tips. There are also links to example SRE resumes.<\/p>\n

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

This article is published by my sponsor, Rootly, but their sponsorship did not influence its inclusion in this issue.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What a Naval Aviation Squadron Incident Can Teach Us About IT Incident Management<\/a><\/div>\n
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Turns out they have runbooks too \u2014 or I guess you could say we have SOPs.<\/p>\n

Hugh Brien \u2014 Transposit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ask Miss O11y: I don\u2019t want to be on call anymore. Am I a monster?<\/a><\/div>\n
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What do you do about developers that just don\u2019t want to be on call?<\/p>\n

Charity Majors \u2014 Honeycomb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Squid game: how we load-tested Ably\u2019s Control API<\/a><\/div>\n
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Before opening their new API up to the public, Ably walloped it with Locust.<\/p>\n

Denis Sellu \u2014 Ably<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

Robinhood<\/a>
\nGoogle Cloud Platform, Gmail, Google Calendar, Chat, Meet, and Groups<\/a><\/p>\n

Linked above is their followup report from the perspective of GCP. There\u2019s also a report for the GSuite side here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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