{"id":740,"date":"2023-08-07T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/sre-weekly-issue-384\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T01:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:01:50","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-384","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/sre-weekly-issue-384\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #384"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

When incidents impact your customers, failing to communicate with them effectively can erode trust even further and compound an already difficult situation. Learn the essentials of customer-facing incident communication in Rootly\u2019s latest blog post:
\nhttps:\/\/rootly.com\/blog\/the-medium-is-the-message-how-to-master-the-most-essential-incident-communication-channels<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Scaling merge-ort across GitHub<\/a><\/div>\n
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They tested this new git merge strategy by using Scientist<\/a>, a framework that runs both the old and new implementation and compares the results.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Jesse Toth \u2014 GitHub<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why is DNS still hard to learn?<\/a><\/div>\n
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DNS is simple (kinda) but it can be really difficult to fully wrap your head around it. This article explains why, and in the process gives a blueprint for designing more understandable tools in general.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Julia Evans<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fallback<\/a><\/div>\n
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Fallback is different from Failover for a number of reasons. This article describes how they differ, how fallback works, and why you might choose it over failover.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Alex Ewerl\u00f6f<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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GitHub \u2013 bregman-arie\/sre-checklist: A checklist of anyone practicing Site Reliability Engineering<\/a><\/div>\n
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Repository Purpose: Provide teams and individuals an idea on what to take into consideration and what to aspire for in the SRE field and work<\/p>\n

Note: these checklists are opinionated.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Arie Bregman<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Reader: Carrots, sticks, and making things worse<\/a><\/div>\n
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A thought-provoking article on trying to change people\u2019s behavior in incidents through incentives (positive or negative) without also changing the context in which they act.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Fred Hebert \u2014 Learning From Incidents<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hardening Workers KV<\/a><\/div>\n
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Cloudflare shares what they learned as they transitioned their KV service to a new architecture which resulted in multiple unexpected problems.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Matt Silverlock, Charles Burnett, Rob Sutter, and Kris Evans \u2014 Cloudflare<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Anything But Tech Debt<\/a><\/div>\n
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In this article, learn about two interesting strategies for getting an organization to prioritize technical debt work: using a more specific name for the work, and referencing the work\u2019s impact on an SLO \u2014 and the impact of not doing the work.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Emily Nakashima \u2014 Honeycomb<\/small>
\n\u00a0\u00a0Full disclosure: Honeycomb is my employer.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SRE WEEKLY<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: When incidents impact your customers, failing to communicate with them effectively can erode trust even further and compound an already difficult situation. Learn the essentials of customer-facing incident communication in Rootly\u2019s latest blog post: https:\/\/rootly.com\/blog\/the-medium-is-the-message-how-to-master-the-most-essential-incident-communication-channels Articles Scaling merge-ort across GitHub They tested this new git merge… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #384<\/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-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":760,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/sre-weekly-issue-389\/","url_meta":{"origin":740,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #389","date":"September 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: When incidents impact your customers, failing to communicate with them effectively can erode trust even further and compound an already difficult situation. 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