SRE Weekly - SRE Weekly Issue #284

Soundcloud is very clear on the fact that they are not at Google scale. It’s interesting to see how they apply SRE principles at their scale.

Björn “Beorn” Rabenstein — SoundCloud

Here’s why Target set up their ELK stack, and how they used it to troubleshoot a problem in ElasticSearch itself.

Dan Getzke — Target

A key point in this article is that calculating your error budget as just “100% – SLO” goes about things backward.

Adam Hammond — Squadcast

They periodically scale up their systems just to test and be sure they’ll be ready for big events like Black Friday / Cyber Monday.

Kathryn Tang — Shopify

In this post, we’ll focus on service ownership. Why is service ownership important? How should teams self-organize to achieve it? Where’s the best place to start?

Cortex

This fun troubleshooting story hinges around the internal details of how PostgreSQL’s sequences work.

Pete Hamilton — incident.io