SRE Weekly - SRE Weekly Issue #297

It’s that time of year again, but maybe it’s time to rethink that code freeze.

Robert Ross — FireHydrant

This article really gets to the heart of why I love a good incident. I mean, obviously, I want to minimize, incidents. I swear.

Lisa Karlin Curtis — incident.io

This article draws on incident reports from The VOID to show how root cause analysis can be problematic.

Courtney Nash — Verica

It’s interesting to read this article after reading the previous one. In the “my car won’t start”, I found myself immediately wondering, why was the vehicle not maintained? What factors contributed to that?

Søren Pedersen — Dzone

These are the “phases”, although they stress that aiming for Visionary doesn’t make sense for all organizations.

• Absent
• Reactive
• Proactive
• Strategic
• Visionary

Google

Not the field I would have expected to look to for lessons, but it totally works!

Paul Marsicovetere — Formidable

This article introduces a 3-phased approach for safe database schema changes: Expand, Rollout, and Contract.

Alex Yates — Octopus Deploy

Try to run a program, and you get “No such file or directory”, even though the program is right there. How can this happen?

Julia Evans