{"id":564,"date":"2022-04-18T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/04\/18\/sre-weekly-issue-318\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T13:03:27","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/04\/18\/sre-weekly-issue-318\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #318"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Errors are constructed, not discovered<\/a><\/div>\n
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This talk summary explores the concept that \u201cerror\u201d is a concept applied to an event from the outside, rather than a simple fact. What can this tell us about our after-incident investigation process?<\/p>\n

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

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PIPEFAIL: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a deep dive into a performance degradation in Cloudflare last December that was related to missing error handling in a shell script.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Alex Forster \u2014 Cloudflare<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time<\/a><\/div>\n
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Atlassian is having a tough time. It seems as if they deleted a few hundred customers\u2019 data and have to pull it out of their backups one at a time.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another article<\/a> about the outage (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols \u2014 The New Stack).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Gergely Orosz \u2014 Pragmatic Engineer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Message durability and quality of service across a large-scale distributed system<\/a><\/div>\n
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Cool trick: their client library can fall back to a backup domain if DNS ably.io fails.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Jo Stichbury \u2014 Ably<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s always DNS . . . except when it\u2019s not: A deep dive through gRPC, Kubernetes, and AWS networking<\/a><\/div>\n
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It still wasn\u2019t quite DNS, it was an interesting situation with the Linux kernel\u2019s martian packet detection algorithm.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Laurent Bernaille and David Lentz \u2014 DataDog<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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India\u2019s Inadvertent Missile Launch Underscores the Risk of Accidental Nuclear Warfare<\/a><\/div>\n
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Aside from the terrifying risk of nuclear war, this sounds very similar to the kind of complex system failures SREs deal with routinely.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Zia Mian, M. V. Ramana \u2014 Scientific American<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs<\/a><\/div>\n
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Both approaches have their pros and cons. The right strategy for your company or team depends, of course, on your needs and priorities.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Quentin Rousseau \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

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