{"id":781,"date":"2023-11-06T01:43:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/sre-weekly-issue-397\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T01:43:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T01:43:33","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/sre-weekly-issue-397\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #397"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Incident management platform FireHydrant is combining alerting and incident response in one ring-to-retro tool. Sign up for the early access waitlist and be the first to experience the power of alerting + incident response in one platform at last.
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Modern rollback strategies<\/a><\/div>\n
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The length and complexity of this article hints at the theme that runs throughout: there\u2019s no easy, universal, perfect rollback strategy. Instead, they present a couple of rollback strategies you can choose from and implement.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Bob Walker \u2014 Octopus Deploy<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Make Your Jobs More Robust With Automatic Safety Switches<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article delves into enhancing error management in batch processing programs through the strategic implementation of automatic safety switches and their critical role in safeguarding data integrity during technical errors.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Bertrand Florat \u2014 DZone<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How DoorDash Standardized and Improved Microservices Caching<\/a><\/div>\n
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Part of their observability strategy, which they call \u201cshadowing\u201d, is especially nifty.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Lev Neiman and Jason Fan \u2014 DoorDash<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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GitHub Availability Report: September 2023<\/a><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s interesting that the DB failed in a way that GitHub\u2019s Orchestrator deployment<\/a> was unable to detect.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Jakub Oleksy \u2014 GitHub<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Beyond Staff Engineer<\/a><\/div>\n
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What exactly is a Senior Staff Engineer? While this article is not specifically about Senior Staff SREs, it\u2019s directly applicable, especially as I\u2019ve seen more Staff+ SRE job postings in the past couple years.<\/p>\n

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

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A guide to post-mortem meetings and how we run them at incident.io<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u201cBlameless\u201d doesn\u2019t mean no names allowed!<\/p>\n

Remember\u2014if discussing the actions of a specific person is being done for the sake of better learning; don\u2019t shy away from it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0incident.io<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SRE Interview Prep Plan (Week 2)<\/a><\/div>\n
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This series is shaping up to be a great study guide for new SREs.<\/p>\n

Each day of this week brings you one step closer to not only acing your SRE interviews but also becoming the SRE who can leverage code & infrastructure to perfect systems reliability.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Code Reliant<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Automating product deprecation<\/a><\/div>\n
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A fascinating and scary concept: a tool for automatically identifying and performing all the changes involved in deprecating an entire product.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Will Shackleton, Andy Pincombe, and Katriel Cohn-Gordon \u2014 Meta<\/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, FireHydrant: Incident management platform FireHydrant is combining alerting and incident response in one ring-to-retro tool. Sign up for the early access waitlist and be the first to experience the power of alerting + incident response in one platform at last. https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/signals\/ Modern rollback strategies The length and… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #397<\/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-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":775,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/sre-weekly-issue-395\/","url_meta":{"origin":781,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #395","date":"October 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Incident management platform FireHydrant is combining alerting and incident response in one ring-to-retro tool. 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