{"id":514,"date":"2021-12-13T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/12\/13\/sre-weekly-issue-300\/"},"modified":"2021-12-13T02:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:09:09","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/12\/13\/sre-weekly-issue-300\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #300"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

300 issues. 6 years. Wow! I couldn\u2019t have done it without all of you wonderful people, writing articles and reading issues. Thanks, you make curating this newsletter fun!<\/p>\n

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Articles<\/h2>\n
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Howie: The Post-Incident Guide<\/a><\/div>\n
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This is the best thing to hit incident analysis since the Etsy Debriefing Facilitation Guide<\/a> and the PagerDuty retrospective guide<\/a>!\u00a0 This one\u2019s even better because it\u2019s not just<\/em> about the retrospective, but the whole incident analysis process.<\/p>\n

BONUS CONTENT: A preview\/introduction by Lorin Hochstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0jeli<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Day 2 \u2013 Reliability as a Product Feature<\/a><\/div>\n
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SysAdvent is back!<\/p>\n

When teams only consult briefly on reliability or operational concerns, often the final output doesn\u2019t adequately reflect customer or engineering expectations of reliability of the product or operability of the internals.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Martin Smith (edited by Jennifer Davis) \u2014 SysAdvent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Day 8 \u2013 D&D for SREs<\/a><\/div>\n
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What can Dungeons and Dragons teach us about SRE?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Jennifer Davis \u2014 SysAdvent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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xkcd #2553: Incident Report<\/a><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s so true. Don\u2019t forget to read the alt text.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Randall Munroe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Incident Analysis: Your Organization\u2019s Secret Weapon <\/a><\/div>\n
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This talk (with transcript) includes three stories about how incident analysis can be super effective.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Nora Jones \u2014 InfoQ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Inside the Log4j2 vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)<\/a><\/div>\n
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I know this is SRE Weekly and not Security Weekly, but this vulnerability is so big that I\u2019m sure many of us triggered your incident response process, and some of us may have even had to take services down temporarily.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0John Graham-Cumming \u2014 Cloudflare<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Safe schema updates \u2013 Strangling the monolith<\/a><\/div>\n
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What a colorful metaphor. This article discusses an effective technique for breaking up a monolith, one piece at a time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Alex Yates \u2014 Octopus Deploy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article proposes a method of eliminating the need for a central team of architects, and it strikes me as very similar to the practice of SRE itself.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Andrew Harmel-Law<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More Reports on Near Misses, Please<\/a><\/div>\n
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More from the VOID<\/a>, this piece is about the importance of analyzing \u201cnear miss\u201d events.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Courtney Nash \u2014 Verica<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ask Miss O11y: Load Testing With Fidelity<\/a><\/div>\n
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If you load-test in production, don\u2019t include your load-test traffic in your SLO calculation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Liz Fong-Jones \u2014 Honeycomb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

AWS us-east-1 region (and half the web)<\/a><\/p>\n

Between the AWS outage and log4j, it\u2019s been a busy week. Amazon has already posted a write-up about the incident, which includes the notable tidbit that their circuit-breaker\/back-off code failed.<\/p>\n\n

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View on sreweekly.com 300 issues. 6 years. Wow! I couldn\u2019t have done it without all of you wonderful people, writing articles and reading issues. Thanks, you make curating this newsletter fun! A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly \ud83d\ude92. 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