SRE Weekly - SRE Weekly Issue #313
Articles
Do you need an incident commander? (Yes.) This article is about how to staff your incident command rotation through a couple of different strategies.
Ryan McDonald — FireHydrant
What an interesting idea, an insurance plan that pays out automatically when a cloud provider has an outage.
L.S. Howard — Insurance Journal
Full disclosure: Fastly, my employer, is mentioned.
LaunchDarkly revamped the way that their on-call system works. Learn about the experience through the eyes of a newly-onboarded engineer.
Anna Baker — LaunchDarkly (via The New Stack)
Catchpoint’s yearly SRE Report is out with four key findings. You have to fill out a form with your email address, and then the link to download the report is presented in your browser.
Catchpoint
This article shows why one-thread-per-request can be a bottleneck and presents alternatives.
Ron Pressler — Parallel Universe (via High Scalability)
And this is a truth about incidents: there are always more signals than there is attention available.
It’s so true.
Fred Hebert — Honeycomb
If you’ve ever even considered running a retrospective, read this article.
This is my favorite piece of advice from this article:
If you think ‘this might be a stupid question,’ ask it.
Emily Ruppe — Jeli
I’m still not sure how I feel about AIOps. Fortunately, this article takes a measured stance while providing some useful insight.
Conclusion: AI won’t replace SREs – but it can help
JJ Tang — Rootly
This article is published by my sponsor, Rootly, but their sponsorship did not influence its inclusion in this issue.
Outages
- Google Cloud Traffic Director
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Google has already posted a preliminary outage report at the link above.
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- Spotify
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This one involved the Traffic Director outage mentioned above, as per Spotify’s outage report here.
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- Discord
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This one was also related to the Traffic Director outage, according to the final update on their status post.
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- TikTok
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SRE Weekly Issue #312
Monday, March 7, 2022
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Automate manual admin tasks like creating incident channel, Jira and Zoom, paging the right
SRE Weekly Issue #311
Monday, February 28, 2022
View on sreweekly.com I'm dedicating this issue to the people of Ukraine, and also those in Russia that are protesting the invasion. A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly
SRE Weekly Issue #310
Monday, February 21, 2022
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SRE Weekly Issue #309
Monday, February 14, 2022
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Monday, February 7, 2022
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