SRE Weekly - SRE Weekly Issue #361
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An in-depth explanation of health checking, including the importance of failing open to avoid a metastable cascading failure.
  Srinavas — eightnoteight
SQS (Amazon’s Simple Queue Service) is hugely scalable, but you must design your system with its limitations and behaviors in mind.
Satrajit Basu — DZone
What if your SSO provider is down? This article describes a scheme for falling back to HTTP Basic Authentication in an emergency.
Chris Siebenmann
Etsy scaled their database by transitioning to a sharding strategy using Vitess. The journey was long and involved some tricky gotchas, as explained in this 3-part series.
  River Rainne and Amy Ciavolino — Etsy
An in-depth explanation of consistent hashing with a special focus on building a case for why other sharding mechanisms fall short.
Nk — High Scalability
LinkedIn chronicles their recent improvements to HODOR (the Holistic Overload Detection and Overload Remediation) including new kinds of overload detectors.
Abhishek Gilra, Nizar Mankulangara, Salil Kanitkar, and Vivek Deshpande — LinkedIn
An airline that gave monetary rewards for early arrivals and a steep cockpit authority gradient were just two of the factors that contributed to this crash.
Admiral Cloudberg
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SRE Weekly Issue #360
Monday, February 20, 2023
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SRE Weekly Issue #359
Monday, February 13, 2023
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SRE Weekly Issue #358
Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, January 30, 2023
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SRE Weekly Issue #356
Monday, January 23, 2023
View on sreweekly.com Thanks to all of you that took the time to share your ideas about choosing incidents to investigate! I got some great answers and I'm looking forward to pulling them together
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