{"id":832,"date":"2024-03-04T04:14:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/sre-weekly-issue-414\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T04:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:14:26","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/sre-weekly-issue-414\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #414"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

91% of engineering leaders say they want a better alerting tool. The other 9% couldn\u2019t take the survey on their Blackberry. Meet Signals: a new standard in alerting and on call, now available.
\nhttps:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/alerting-and-on-call-scheduling-for-how-you-actually-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2024 VOID Report<\/a><\/div>\n
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This year\u2019s VOID Report is out, and it\u2019s well worth a read. The subtitle is \u201cExploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software\u201d which is a really good way to get me to read something!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Courtney Nash \u2014 The VOID<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation <\/a><\/div>\n
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A terraform change deleted a critical resource, and reviewers missed it because the plan was so big. Now they use Atlantis and Open Policy Agent to avoid accidental deletions of critical resources.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Lin Du \u2014 InfoQ<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What if everybody did everything right?<\/a><\/div>\n
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When analyzing an incident, what can we learn when we assume that everyone did everything as well as possible?<\/p>\n

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

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Google Cloud Incident Report: europe-west8-b partial outage <\/a><\/div>\n
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onsite technicians performing this planned network maintenance inadvertently unplugged several fibers that were adjacent to those in the work order, but still in use for production traffic<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Google<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What Does 99.999% Uptime Really Mean?<\/a><\/div>\n
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There\u2019s a huge difference between four and five nines. There\u2019s an especially interesting quote in this article that Google doesn\u2019t think five nines is attainable in a commercial service.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Diana Bocco \u2014 UptimeRobot<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Life as a Site Reliability Engineer at IBM<\/a><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s an interview with three SREs about what it\u2019s like to be an SRE at IBM.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0IBM<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling<\/a><\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve been hearing about Observability 2.0 but didn\u2019t know what it was all about. This article explains what it is and how it can help with cost.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Charity Majors \u2014 Honeycomb<\/small>
\n\u00a0\u00a0Full disclosure: Honeycomb is my employer.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers<\/a><\/div>\n
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A cute little video pep talk for SREs. The site<\/a> is actually real, too!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Krazam<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Happy Leap Day!<\/a><\/div>\n
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Like a mini Y2K, leap day came around again and left some technical glitches in its wake, as chronicled in this article.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Gergely Orosz \u2014 The Pragmatic Engineer<\/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: 91% of engineering leaders say they want a better alerting tool. The other 9% couldn\u2019t take the survey on their Blackberry. Meet Signals: a new standard in alerting and on call, now available. https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/alerting-and-on-call-scheduling-for-how-you-actually-work\/ 2024 VOID Report This year\u2019s VOID Report is out, and it\u2019s well… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #414<\/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-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":504,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2021\/11\/15\/sre-weekly-issue-296\/","url_meta":{"origin":832,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #296","date":"November 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly \ud83d\ude92. 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