SRE Weekly - SRE Weekly Issue #285
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What’s so great about this incident write-up is the way that entrenched mental models hampered the incident response. There’s so much to learn here.
Ray Ashman — Mailchimp
The parallels between this and the Mailchimp article are striking.
Will Gallego
This includes a review of the four golden signals and presents three areas to go further.
JJ Tang — Rootly
This one thoughtfully discusses why “root cause” is a flawed concept, approaching the idea from multiple directions.
Lorin Hochstein
Check it out, a new SRE conference! This one’s virtual and the CFP is open until October 1.
Robert Barron — IBM
To be clear, this article is about static dashboards that just contain pre-set graphs of specific metrics.
every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question
Charity Majors
Public incident posts give us useful insight into how companies analyze their incidents, but it’s important to remember that they’re almost never the same as internal incident write-ups.
John Allspaw — Adaptive Capacity Labs
In this incident from July 7, front-line routing hosts exceeded their file descriptor limits, causing requests to be delayed and dropped.
Heroku
.io, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory is almost exclusively used by annoying startups for content completely unrelated to the islands.
Remember, it’s all fun and games until the random country you’ve attached your business to has an outage in their TLD DNS infrastructure.
Jan Schaumann
If you’re curious about just what a columnar data store is like I was, this article is a good introduction.
Alex Vondrak — Honeycomb
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SRE Weekly Issue #284
Sunday, August 22, 2021
View on sreweekly.com Like last week, I prepared this week's issue in advance, so no Outages section. Have a great week! A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Trying to automate application and
SRE Weekly Issue #283
Monday, August 16, 2021
View on sreweekly.com I'm on vacation enjoying the sunny beaches in Maine with my family, so I prepared this week's issue in advance. No outages section, save for one big one I noticed due to
SRE Weekly Issue #282
Monday, August 9, 2021
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: ICYMI ZAP Creator and Project Lead Simon Bennetts recently unveiled ZAP's new automation framework. Watch the session and see how it
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Monday, August 2, 2021
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Traditional application security testing methods fail for single page applications. Check out why single page apps are different and how you
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Monday, July 26, 2021
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