{"id":645,"date":"2022-10-31T00:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T00:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-345\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T00:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T00:23:37","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-345","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-345\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #345"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sreweekly.com\/sre-weekly-issue-345\/\" title=\"Permalink to SRE Weekly Issue #345\" class=\"email_only\">View on sreweekly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SRE Weekly is now on Mastodon at <a href=\"https:\/\/social.linux.pizza\/@SREWeekly\">@SREWeekly@social.linux.pizza<\/a>!  Follow to get notified of each new issue as it comes out.<\/p>\n<p>This replaces the Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@SREWeekly\">@SREWeekly<\/a>, which I am now retiring in favor of Mastodon.  For those of you following @SREWeekly on Twitter, <strong>you\u2019ll need to choose a different way to get notified of new issues<\/strong>.  If Mastodon isn\u2019t your jam, try <a href=\"http:\/\/sreweekly.com\/feed\/\">RSS<\/a> or a straight email subscription (by filling out the form at <a href=\"http:\/\/sreweekly.com\/\">sreweekly.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-sponsor-message\">\n<h2>A message from our sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/rootly.com\/demo\/?utm_source=sreweekly\">Rootly<\/a>:<\/h2>\n<p>Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly\u00a0\ud83d\ude92.<\/p>\n<p>Rootly automates manual tasks like creating an incident channel, Jira ticket and Zoom rooms, inviting responders, creating statuspage updates, postmortem timelines and more. Want to see why companies like Canva and Grammarly love us?:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootly.com\/demo\/\">https:\/\/rootly.com\/demo\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Articles<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/there-is-no-shame-in-customer-reported-incidents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There Is No Shame in Customer-Reported Incidents<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Don\u2019t beat yourself up! This is like another form of blamelessness.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Robert Ross \u2014 FireHydrant + The New Stack<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srepath.com\/reduce-software-outage-risk-with-passive-guardrails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reduce software outage risk with passive guardrails<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>In this article, I will share with you how setting up passive guardrails in and around developer workflows can reduce the frequency and severity of incidents and outages.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Ash Patel \u2014 SREPath<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoq.com\/news\/2022\/10\/disney-sre-empathy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney SRE \u201cProximity Powered Engineering\u201d Culture: Jason Cox at DOES 2022 <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>This conference talk summary outlines the three main lessons Jason Cox learned as director of SRE at Disney.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Shaaron A Alvares \u2014 InfoQ<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.fb.com\/ideas\/2022\/10\/how-meta-production-engineers-solve-the-problem-of-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Meta production engineers solve the problem of scale<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at how Meta has structured its Production Engineer role, their name for SREs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Jason Kalich \u2014 Meta<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The computer errors from outer space<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Bit-flips caused by cosmic rays seem incredibly rare, but they become more likely as we make circuits smaller and our infrastructures larger.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Chris Baraniuk \u2014 BBC<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/partial-cloudflare-outage-on-october-25-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Cloudflare shares details about their 87-minute partial outage this past Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>John Graham-Cumming \u2014 Cloudflare<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.razorpay.com\/what-goes-behind-managing-production-alerts-204f186ce865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ops to Bots \u2014 Smartening incident recovery<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>In reaction to a major outage, these folks revamped their alerting and incident response systems.  Here\u2019s what they changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Vivek Aggarwal \u2014 Razorpay<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooker.co.za\/blog\/2022\/10\/21\/nudge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give Your Tail a Nudge<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>The author of this post sought to test a simple algorithm from a research paper that purported to reduce tail latency.  Yay for independent verfication!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Marc Brooker<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SRE WEEKLY<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View on sreweekly.com SRE Weekly is now on Mastodon at @SREWeekly@social.linux.pizza! Follow to get notified of each new issue as it comes out. This replaces the Twitter account @SREWeekly, which I am now retiring in favor of Mastodon. For those of you following @SREWeekly on Twitter, you\u2019ll need to choose a different way to get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/sre-weekly-issue-345\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SRE Weekly Issue #345<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":543,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/sre-weekly-issue-310\/","url_meta":{"origin":645,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #310","date":"February 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly \ud83d\ude92. 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