{"id":891,"date":"2024-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/sre-weekly-issue-432\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T00:00:00","slug":"sre-weekly-issue-432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/sre-weekly-issue-432\/","title":{"rendered":"SRE Weekly Issue #432"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

We\u2019ve gone all out on our new integration with Microsoft Teams. If you\u2019re a MS Teams user, FireHydrant now supports the most comprehensive integration for incident management. Run the entire IM process without ever leaving the chat.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/introducing-a-brand-new-microsoft-teams-integration\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Investigating Mysterious Kafka Broker I\/O When Using Confluent Tiered Storage<\/a><\/div>\n
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In this debugging story, an engineer wielded SystemTap to figure out why a Kafka broker was doing a ridiculous amount of reads.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Terra Field \u2014 Honeycomb<\/small><\/p>\n

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

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The Reality of Adding Nines to Your SLOs<\/a><\/div>\n
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A concise breakdown of the math involved in getting that extra nine of reliability.<\/p>\n

It all boils down to creating the SLOs and requirements to keep your users happy, but nothing more. Unnecessary reliability is a high cost.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Thomas Stringer<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Becoming a Senior Site Reliability Engineer: A Guide to Upskilling<\/a><\/div>\n
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If you\u2019re looking to advance in SRE, this article has some examples of the skills and experience you should aim for.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Prabesh<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How Many Maybe\u2019s until Empathy?<\/a><\/div>\n
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Will Gallego shows us a way of thinking that helps turn \u201cshould haves\u201d into deeper understanding of our sociotechnical systems.<\/p>\n

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

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Vassil Popovski on LinkedIn Re: scalability <\/a><\/div>\n
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Some words of wisdom I came across this week around startups choosing not to work on scalability too early.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Vassil Popovski<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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r\/sre: do you think it\u2019s become easier or harder to be an SRE in the last 5-10 years? <\/a><\/div>\n
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Some commenters in this reddit thread are saying it\u2019s easier to be called<\/em> an SRE, but what does it mean? Some say SRE has gotten easier, and some say it\u2019s gotten harder. What do you think?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0u\/sreiously and others \u2014 reddit<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Assessment of Rogers Networks for Resiliency and Reliability Following the 8 July 2022 Outage \u2013 Executive Summary<\/a><\/div>\n
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The full report isn\u2019t available yet (and may not ever be?) but this executive summary has a lot of juicy bits about the major 2022 Rogers internet and emergency service outage in Canada.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Xona Partners, Inc.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Quick takes on Rogers Network outage executive summary<\/a><\/div>\n
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The Rogers report executive summary includes some blamey and blame-adjacent language, and this analysis does a good job of calling it out and suggesting ways to recast it.<\/p>\n

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

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\u201cOut of band\u201d network management is not trivial<\/a><\/div>\n
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The Rogers outage report executive summary indicates that truly out-of-band network management access may have made recovery easier. What exactly is involved in setting that up?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Chris Siebenmann<\/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: We\u2019ve gone all out on our new integration with Microsoft Teams. If you\u2019re a MS Teams user, FireHydrant now supports the most comprehensive integration for incident management. Run the entire IM process without ever leaving the chat. https:\/\/firehydrant.com\/blog\/introducing-a-brand-new-microsoft-teams-integration\/ Investigating Mysterious Kafka Broker I\/O When Using Confluent… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #432<\/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-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":899,"url":"https:\/\/fde.cat\/index.php\/2024\/07\/22\/sre-weekly-issue-434\/","url_meta":{"origin":891,"position":0},"title":"SRE Weekly Issue #434","date":"July 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: We\u2019ve gone all out on our new integration with Microsoft Teams. 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