{"id":847,"date":"2024-04-01T03:48:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T03:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/sre-weekly-issue-418\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T03:48:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T03:48:26","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/sre-weekly-issue-418\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #418"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sreweekly.com\/sre-weekly-issue-418\/\" title=\"Permalink to SRE Weekly Issue #418\" class=\"email_only\">View on sreweekly.com<\/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>FireHydrant is now AI-powered for faster, smarter incidents! Power up your incidents with auto-generated real-time summaries, retrospectives, and status page updates.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/ai-for-incident-management-is-here\/\">https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/ai-for-incident-management-is-here\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hazelweakly.me\/blog\/redefining-observability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redefining Observability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>The observability waters have been muddy for awhile, and this article does a great job of taking a step back and building a definition \u2014 and a roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Hazel Weakly<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ferd.ca\/a-commentary-on-defining-observability.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Commentary on Defining Observability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Fred Hebert wrote this response\/follow-on to Hazel\u2019s article:<\/p>\n<p>The main points I\u2019ll try to bring here are on the topics of the difference between insights and questions, the difference between observability and data availability, reinforcing a socio-technical definition, the mess of complex systems and mapping them, and finally, a hot take on the use of models when reasoning about systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Fred Hebert<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alexewerlof.com\/p\/sla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service Level Agreement<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>What the service providers are willing to put on the table in terms of penalties is often much less than the money you lose when your service goes down.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Alex Ewerl\u00f6f<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robpostonblog.wordpress.com\/2024\/03\/12\/common-false-assumptions-about-debriefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assumptions About Debriefs That Belie Legal Risk<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Fascinating legal questions come to the surface when lawyers consider the possibility for legal risk exposure from a surgical incident debriefing meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Dr. Rob Poston<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/incident.io\/blog\/dealing-with-alert-fatigue-head-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to deal with alert fatigue head-on <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>if you approach on-call the right way, you can mitigate the impacts of alert fatigue or, better yet, avoid it altogether. Here, we\u2019ll dive into the tactics teams can implement to address alert fatigue and its underlying causes.<\/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:\/\/hross.substack.com\/p\/different-ways-to-aggregate-nines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Different Ways to Aggregate Nines<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>How do you create an SLO that references multiple SLIs together, such as slow requests and errors?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Ross Brodbeck<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willgallego.com\/2024\/03\/24\/srecon24-americas-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SREcon24 Americas Recap<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>More than just a list of talks, this piece pulls out major themes from SRECon24.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Will Gallego<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-entry\">\n<div class=\"sreweekly-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hross.substack.com\/p\/how-much-are-your-9s-worth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How much are your 9\u2019s worth?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sreweekly-description\">\n<p>Making your 9\u2019s look great by cheating.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you don\u2019t actually want to do that, but learning how can show us that availability numbers are nuanced.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<small>Ross Brodbeck<\/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 message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: FireHydrant is now AI-powered for faster, smarter incidents! Power up your incidents with auto-generated real-time summaries, retrospectives, and status page updates. https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/ai-for-incident-management-is-here\/ Redefining Observability The observability waters have been muddy for awhile, and this article does a great job of taking a step back and building&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/sre-weekly-issue-418\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SRE Weekly Issue #418<\/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-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":861,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/sre-weekly-issue-422\/","url_meta":{"origin":847,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #422","date":"April 29, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: FireHydrant is now AI-powered for faster, smarter incidents! 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