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Whoa.  This is the best thing ever.  I feel like I want to make this the official theme song of SRE Weekly.

Forrest Brazeal

Their auto-scaling algorithm needed a tweak. Before: scale up by N instances. After: scale up by an amount proportional to the current number of instances.

Fran Garcia — Reddit

here’s a look at incidents and reliability challenges that have occurred in outer space, and what SREs stand to learn from them.

JJ Tang — Rootly

This one includes 3 key things to remember while load testing. My favorite: test the whole system, not just parts.

Cortex

SRE is as much about building consensus and earning buy-in as it is about actual engineering.

Cortex

The definition of NoOps in this article is more clear than others I’ve seen. It’s not about firing your operations team — their skill set is still necessary.

Kentaro Wakayama

Even though I know what observability is, I got a lot out of this article. It has some excellent examples of questions that are hard to answer with traditional dashboards, and includes my new favorite term:

The industrial term for this problem is Watermelon Metrics; A situation where individual dashboards look green, but the overall performance is broken and red inside.

Nishant Modak and Piyush Verma — Last9

Instead, we should consider the fields there where practitioners are responsible for controlling a dynamic process that’s too complex for humans to fully understand.

Lorin Hochstein

In this epic troubleshooting story, a weird curl bug coupled with Linux memory tuning parameters led to unexpected CPU consumption in an unrelated process.

Pavlos Parissis — Booking.com

Learning a lesson from a rough Black Friday in 2019, these folks used load testing to gather hard data on how they would likely fare in 2020.

Mathieu Garstecki — Back Market

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