SRE Weekly - SRE Weekly Issue #322

What? Actually, it’s a pretty good analogy.

  Emily Arnott — Blameless

Mercari has this update to their previous article on their embedded SRE team with more details on how their embedding model works.

  Taichi Nakashima — Mercari

Interesting things happen when you combine tail latency with a microservice architecture.

  Marc Brooker

Their starting point was paging for every single exception raised by their application. Here’s how they tempered that a bit to get a handle on their paging volume.

  Lisa Karlin Curtis — incident.io

This article draws from the “SRE Hierarchy” in Google’s SRE book (which itself is a reference to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs). It recasts the SRE hierarchy as a path to maturity.

  Ash P. — SREPath

Google posted this summary of an incident from late April. A configuration change had the unintended effect of causing livestream view requests to fail.

  Google