{"id":552,"date":"2022-03-14T01:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/03\/14\/sre-weekly-issue-313\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:47:29","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/03\/14\/sre-weekly-issue-313\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #313"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly \ud83d\ude92. Automate manual admin tasks like creating incident channel, Jira and Zoom, paging and adding responders, postmortem timeline, setting up reminders, and more. Book a demo (+ get a snazzy Rootly lego set):
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Articles<\/h2>\n
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When to hire an Incident Commander<\/a><\/div>\n
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Do you need an incident commander? (Yes.) This article is about how to staff your incident command rotation through a couple of different strategies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Ryan McDonald \u2014 FireHydrant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How Cloud Downtime Insurance Became a Thing<\/a><\/div>\n
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What an interesting idea, an insurance plan that pays out automatically when a cloud provider has an outage.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0L.S. Howard \u2014 Insurance Journal
\nFull disclosure: Fastly, my employer, is mentioned.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Diary of a First-Time On-Call Engineer<\/a><\/div>\n
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LaunchDarkly revamped the way that their on-call system works. Learn about the experience through the eyes of a newly-onboarded engineer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Anna Baker \u2014 LaunchDarkly (via The New Stack)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2021 SRE Report<\/a><\/div>\n
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Catchpoint\u2019s yearly SRE Report is out with four key findings. You have to fill out a form with your email address, and then the link to download the report is presented in your browser.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Catchpoint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Little\u2019s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is your bottleneck. What you can\u00a0do?<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article shows why one-thread-per-request can be a bottleneck and presents alternatives.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Ron Pressler \u2014 Parallel Universe (via High Scalability)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On the Brittleness of Dashboards<\/a><\/div>\n
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And this is a truth about incidents: there are always more signals than there is attention available.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so true.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Fred Hebert \u2014 Honeycomb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Incident Analysis 101: Facilitating the Learning Review<\/a><\/div>\n
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If you\u2019ve ever even considered running a retrospective, read this article.<\/p>\n

This is my favorite piece of advice from this article:<\/p>\n

If you think \u2018this might be a stupid question,\u2019 ask it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Emily Ruppe \u2014 Jeli<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What Does AIOps Mean for SREs? It\u2019s Complicated.<\/a><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m still not sure how I feel about AIOps. Fortunately, this article takes a measured stance while providing some useful insight.<\/p>\n

Conclusion: AI won\u2019t replace SREs \u2013 but it can help<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0JJ Tang \u2014 Rootly
\nThis 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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Outages<\/h2>\n

Google Cloud Traffic Director<\/a><\/p>\n

Google has already posted a preliminary outage report at the link above.<\/p>\n

Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n

This one involved the Traffic Director outage mentioned above, as per Spotify\u2019s outage report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discord<\/a><\/p>\n

This one was also related to the Traffic Director outage, according to the final update on their status post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Polygon<\/a><\/p>\n

TikTok<\/a>
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