{"id":815,"date":"2024-01-22T03:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/sre-weekly-issue-408\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T03:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T03:05:54","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/01\/22\/sre-weekly-issue-408\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #408"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

It\u2019s time for a new world of alerting tools that prioritize engineer well-being and efficiency. The future lies in intelligent systems that are compatible with real life and use conditional rules to adapt and refine thresholds, reducing alert fatigue.
\nhttps:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/the-alert-fatigue-dilemma-a-call-for-change-in-how-we-manage-on-call\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tell me about a time\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n
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This is either a set of SRE interview topics or the squares for the SRE bingo card.<\/p>\n

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

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Blame Awareness is Universal<\/a><\/div>\n
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Blame awareness only works if you work towards blame awareness with all incidents, not just the ones that affect you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Will Gallego<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices<\/a><\/div>\n
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a brief history of our pipeline and the platforms, why the rebuilding was necessary, what these new services look like, and how they are being used for Netflix businesses.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Liwei Guo, Anush Moorthy, Li-Heng Chen, Vinicius Carvalho, Aditya Mavlankar, Agata Opalach, Adithya Prakash, Kyle Swanson, Jessica Tweneboah, Subbu Venkatrav, Lishan Zhu \u2014 Netflix<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Best practices to prevent alert fatigue<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here are five concrete tips to fix your alerts and improve alert fatigue.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Candace Shamieh, Daljeet Sandu, and Nicolas Narbais <\/small>\u2014<\/small> Datadog<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SRE Governance<\/a><\/div>\n
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This article contains guidelines for many kinds of reviews and activities SRE can do to improve reliability, such as SLO reviews, dependency reviews, and more.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Jamie Allen<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alerts Are Fundamentally Messy<\/a><\/div>\n
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However, the reality of alerting in a socio-technical system must cater not only to the mess around the signal, but also to the longer term interpretation of alerts by people and automation acting on them. This post will expand on this messiness and why Honeycomb favors an iterative approach to setting our alerts.<\/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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#23 \u2013 The Danger of Unreliable Platforms (with Jade Rubick)<\/a><\/div>\n
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This far-ranging conversation covers many aspects of developing a reliable platform for engineering. There\u2019s a text summary if audio\u2019s not your thing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Ash Patel \u2014 SREPath<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Slack\u2019s Migration to a Cellular Architecture<\/a><\/div>\n
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Spurred by a single-AZ outage that took down their service, Slack set out to break their system into isolated segments so that an AZ can be drained of traffic quickly and without impacting customers.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Cooper Bethea \u2014 Slack<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: It\u2019s time for a new world of alerting tools that prioritize engineer well-being and efficiency. 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