SRE Weekly - SRE Weekly Issue #286
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This is a review of Marianne Bellotti’s Kill It With Fire a book about modernizing legacy systems. It focuses heavily on operational concepts and “the system around the system”, with a heavy SRE influence.
Laura Nolan — ;login:
Originally drafted in 2016, this blog post is even more relevant now. Beyond just the “why”, it has several ideas for interview questions to get you started.
Charity Majors
Tell a good story, and you can make things happen.
As SREs, we often know what needs to be done, but convincing others is a hard-won skill.
Lorin Hochstein
In this video report of a commercial aviation accident, there’s a neat discussion of resiliency toward the end. There were several other layers of protection that (probably) would have caught and prevented this incident if the A320 captain hadn’t intervened. And even though no accident occurred, there was still a “near miss” investigation.
Mentor Pilot
Although conversation about observability often ignores SREs, SREs have a central role to play in observability success.
Quentin Rousseau — Rootly
In a microservice architecture, having retries several levels deep can be a recipe for nastiness.
Oren Eini — RavenDB
This report has some detail on two major incidents experienced by GitHub last month.
Scott Sanders — GitHub
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SRE Weekly Issue #285
Monday, August 30, 2021
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Check out the latest from StackHawk's Chief Security Officer, Scott Gerlach, on why security should be part of building software, and
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
SRE Weekly Issue #281
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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