{"id":507,"date":"2021-11-22T01:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T01:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/sre-weekly-issue-297\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T01:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T01:58:44","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/sre-weekly-issue-297\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #297"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Articles<\/h2>\n
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Avoid frostbite: Stop doing code freezes<\/a><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s that time of year again, but maybe it\u2019s time to rethink that code freeze.<\/p>\n

Robert Ross \u2014 FireHydrant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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5 ways incidents made me a better engineer<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article really gets to the heart of why I love a good incident. I mean, obviously, I want to minimize, incidents. I swear.<\/p>\n

Lisa Karlin Curtis \u2014 incident.io<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Root Cause is for Plants, Not Software<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article draws on incident reports from The VOID<\/a> to show how root cause analysis can be problematic.<\/p>\n

Courtney Nash \u2014 Verica<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How to Perform Incident Post-mortems: Identify Root Cause With \u201cFive Whys\u201d<\/a><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s interesting to read this article after reading the previous one. In the \u201cmy car won\u2019t start\u201d, I found myself immediately wondering, why<\/em> was the vehicle not maintained? What factors contributed to that?<\/p>\n

S\u00f8ren Pedersen \u2014 Dzone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The five phases of organizational reliability<\/a><\/div>\n
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These are the \u201cphases\u201d, although they stress that aiming for Visionary doesn\u2019t make sense for all organizations.<\/p>\n

Absent
\nReactive
\nProactive
\nStrategic
\nVisionary<\/p>\n

Google<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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3 Combat Sports Principles that Apply to Site Reliability Engineering<\/a><\/div>\n
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Not the field I would have expected to look to for lessons, but it totally works!<\/p>\n

Paul Marsicovetere \u2014 Formidable<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Safe schema updates \u2013 Near-zero downtime database deployments<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article introduces a 3-phased approach for safe database schema changes: Expand, Rollout, and Contract.<\/p>\n

Alex Yates \u2014 Octopus Deploy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Debugging a weird \u2018file not found\u2019 error<\/a><\/div>\n
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Try to run a program, and you get \u201cNo such file or directory\u201d, even though the program is right there<\/em>. How can this happen?<\/p>\n

Julia Evans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

Google Cloud Load Balancing<\/a><\/p>\n

Google had a major outage that took down many sites and services. Notably, users of these sites were greeted with a Google<\/em> 404 page with no branding related to the site they were attempting to access.<\/p>\n

Grab<\/a>Tesla<\/a><\/p>\n

Tesla owners were locked out of their cars or unable to start them during the outage.<\/p>\n

SRE 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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