{"id":668,"date":"2023-01-23T02:04:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T02:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/sre-weekly-issue-356\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T02:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T02:04:13","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/sre-weekly-issue-356\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #356"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Thanks to all of you that took the time to share your ideas about choosing incidents to investigate! I got some great answers and I\u2019m looking forward to pulling them together into an article.<\/p>\n

I decided to give this GPT-3 thing a spin. It turns out that it absolutely can assemble a newsletter with links to the week\u2019s top SRE stories, each with a short description. It even includes authors. The authors are even real people. The URLs, though\u2026 well, they look<\/em> real, but they\u2019re mysteriously all 404s, and the articles don\u2019t actually exist. Guess you\u2019re stuck with me for now!<\/p>\n

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Platform Engineering as a Startup<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article takes the idea of \u201cinternal customers\u201d to its logical conclusion, by treating the platform in the same way as a startup company.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Adam Buggia \u2014 Sym<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Blameless Postmortems & Bayes\u2019 Theorem<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article uses nifty probability formulas to show that blaming an engineer for an incident may well result in diminished reliability and efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Dan Slimmon<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CircleCI incident report for January 4, 2023 security incident<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s a report on the CircleCI security incident at the start of the year. There\u2019s some good stuff in there about not blaming the specific engineer whose device was attacked.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Rob Zuber \u2014 CircleCI<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Counting Forest Fires<\/a><\/div>\n
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A hot take on how not<\/em> to measure your incident response process.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Fred Hebert \u2014 Honeycomb<\/small>
\n\u00a0\u00a0Full disclosure: Honeycomb is my employer.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How eBay\u2019s Notification Platform Used Fault Injection in New Ways<\/a><\/div>\n
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eBay\u2019s notification platform team built a fault-tolerant, resilient system by injecting faults in the application level.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Wei Chen \u2014 eBay<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A small mistake does not a complex systems failure make<\/a><\/div>\n
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This one succinctly sums up why I haven\u2019t covered the NOTAM outage much yet.<\/p>\n

If a small mistake was sufficient to take down a complex system, then our systems would be crashing all of the time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Lorin Hochstein<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Production postmortem: The heisenbug server<\/a><\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t you love when merely running strace fixes the problem?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Oren Eini<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Question of Intent: The crash of Garuda Indonesia flight 200<\/a><\/div>\n
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This air accident seems at its face to be a clear-cut story of negligence. There\u2019s far more to it, and the author goes into detail on why blaming the captain can damage air safety industry-wide.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Admiral Cloudberg<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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View on sreweekly.com Thanks to all of you that took the time to share your ideas about choosing incidents to investigate! I got some great answers and I\u2019m looking forward to pulling them together into an article. I decided to give this GPT-3 thing a spin. 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