{"id":771,"date":"2023-10-15T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/sre-weekly-issue-394\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:56:16","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/sre-weekly-issue-394\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #394"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sreweekly.com\/sre-weekly-issue-394\/\" title=\"Permalink to SRE Weekly Issue #394\" class=\"email_only\">View on sreweekly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A warm welcome to my new sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/\">FireHydrant<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-sponsor-message\">\n<h2>A message from our sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/\">FireHydrant<\/a>:<\/h2>\n<p>The 2023 DORA report has two conclusions with big impacts on incident management: incremental steps matter, and good culture contributes to performance. Dig into both topics and explore ideas for how to start making incremental improvements of your own.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/ebook\/dora-2023-incident-management\/\">https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/ebook\/dora-2023-incident-management\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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:\/\/nickjanetakis.com\/blog\/creating-checklists-for-high-stakes-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creating Checklists for High Stakes Changes<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>This article gives an example checklist for a database version upgrade in RDS and explains why checklists cam be so useful for changes like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Nick Janetakis<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/incident.io\/blog\/reliability-vs-availability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The balancing act of reliability and availability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>The distinction in this article is between responding <em>at all<\/em> and responding <em>correctly<\/em>. Different techniques solve for availability vs reliability.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>incident.io<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertovitillo.com\/what-every-developer-should-know-about-tcp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What every developer should know about TCP<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Latency and throughput are inextricably linked in TCP, and this article explains why with a primer on congestion windows and handshakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Roberto Vitillo<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertovitillo.com\/why-you-should-measure-tail-latencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why you should measure tail latencies<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Tail latency has a huge impact on throughput and on the overall user experience.  Measuring average latency just won\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Roberto Vitillo<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthly.dev\/blog\/devops-glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong Devops Glossary<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Is it really wrong though?  Is it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Adam Gordon Bell \u2014 Earthly<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aviation-human-factors-dirty-dozen-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part One: Exploring Aviation\u2019s Human Factors \u2018Dirty Dozen\u2019<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>I\u2019ve shared the FAA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faasafety.gov\/files\/gslac\/library\/documents\/2012\/nov\/71574\/dirtydozenweb3.pdf\">infographic<\/a> of the Dirty Dozen here previously, but here\u2019s a more in-depth look at the first six items.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Dr. Omar Memon \u2014 Simple Flying<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rachelbythebay.com\/w\/2023\/02\/13\/broken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than five whys and \u201clayer eight\u201d problems<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>It\u2019s often necessary to go through far more than five whys to understand what\u2019s really going on in a sociotechnical system.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>rachelbythebay<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srestories.dev\/p\/sre-story-with-michael-hausenblas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SRE Story with Michael Hausenblas<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>I found the bit about the AWS Incident\/Communication Manager on-call role pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Prathamesh Sonpatki \u2014 SRE Stories<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SRE WEEKLY<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View on sreweekly.com A warm welcome to my new sponsor, FireHydrant! A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: The 2023 DORA report has two conclusions with big impacts on incident management: incremental steps matter, and good culture contributes to performance. Dig into both topics and explore ideas for how to start making incremental improvements of your&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/sre-weekly-issue-394\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SRE Weekly Issue #394<\/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-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":844,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/sre-weekly-issue-417\/","url_meta":{"origin":771,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #417","date":"March 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Join FireHydrant this Thursday for a conversation about on-call burnout and how to prevent it. 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