{"id":627,"date":"2022-09-05T01:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/sre-weekly-issue-337\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T01:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:42:16","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/sre-weekly-issue-337\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #337"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Thanks for all the vacation well-wishes! It was really great and relaxing. Take vacations, it\u2019s important for reliability!<\/p>\n

While I was out, I shipped the past two issues with content prepared in advance, and without the Outages section. This gave me a chance to really think hard about the value of the Outages section versus the time and effort I put into it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided to put the Outages section on hiatus for the time being.<\/strong> For notable outages, I\u2019ll include them in the main section, on a case-by-case basis. Read on if you\u2019re interested in what went into this decision.<\/p>\n

The Outages section has always been of lower quality than the rest of the newsletter. I have no scientific process for choosing which Outages make the cut \u2014 mostly it\u2019s just whatever shows up in my Google search alerts and seems \u201cimportant\u201d, minus a few arbitrary categories that don\u2019t seem particularly interesting like telecoms and games. I do only a cursory review of the outage-related news articles I link to, and often they\u2019re on poor-quality sites with a ton of intrusive ads. Gathering the list of Outages has begun taking more and more of my time, and I\u2019d much rather spend that effort on curating quality content, so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do going forward.<\/p>\n

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10 Things I Learned From My First Incident Review<\/a><\/div>\n
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Every one of these 10 items is enough reason to read this article! This makes me want to go investigate some incidents right now.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Fischer Jemison \u2014 Jeli<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Slowing Down to Speed Up \u2013 Circuit Breakers for Slack\u2019s CI\/CD<\/a><\/div>\n
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Slack shares with us in great detail why they use circuit breakers and how they rolled them out.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Frank Chen \u2014 Slack<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tips to Make Your On-Call Process Less Stressful<\/a><\/div>\n
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My favorite part of this one is the section on expectations. We need to socialize this to help reduce the pressure on folks going on call for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Prakya Vasudevan \u2014 Squadcast<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why Status Pages Are Lying to You and What To Do About It<\/a><\/div>\n
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Status pages are marketing material. Prove me wrong.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Ellen Steinke \u2014 Metrist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Using incidents to level up your teams<\/a><\/div>\n
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incidents have unusually high information density compared with day-to-day work, and they enable you to piggy-back on the experience of others<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Lisa Karlin Curtis \u2014 incident.io<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How we store and process millions of orders daily<\/a><\/div>\n
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These folks realized that they had two different use cases for the same data, real-time transactions and batch processing. Rather than try to find one DB that could support both, they fork two copies of the data.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Xi Chen and Siliang Cao \u2014 Grab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Live Your Best Life With Structured Events<\/a><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s all about gathering enough information that you can ask new questions when something goes wrong, rather than being stuck with only answers to the questions you thought to ask in advance.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Charity Majors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency<\/a><\/div>\n
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They needed the speed of local ephemeral SSDs but the reliability of network-based persistent disks. The solution: a linux MD option to mirror but prefer to read from the local disks. Neat!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Glen Oakley \u2014 Discord<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Operating system upgrades at LinkedIn\u2019s scale<\/a><\/div>\n
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OS upgrades can be risky. LinkedIn developed a system to unify OS upgrade procedures and make them much less risky.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Hengyang Hu, Dinesh Dhakal, and Kalyanasundaram Somasundaram \u2014 LinkedIn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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