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Catchpoint’s yearly survey is live! This time, they’ll plant a tree for each of the first 2000 respondents.
Catchpoint
If you’re looking to build a status page, this article is for you. It gives reviews of 10 status pages and sums it up with a list of things to consider as you design yours.
Sara Miteva — Checkly
The GCP outage on June 12 hit Cloudflare hard, and they’ve responded by redesigning their Workers KV service to eliminate the dependency on a third party cloud.
Alex Robinson and Tyson Trautmann — Cloudflare
I found the bit about Google’s historical reasons for SRE especially interesting.
Dave O’Connor
There’s a fascinating point in this article explaining why “eventual consistency” may sound entirely different to German speakers. It continues on to a really good explanation of what eventual consistency actually means.
Uwe Friedrichsen
This article introduces SLI Compass, a 2D mental model to help you:
- Quickly assess the signal/noise ratio of existing SLIs
- Evaluate SLIs based on their cost and complexity
- Set a direction for improving the quality of existing SLIs at a reasonable ROI
Alex Ewerlöf
This is a really interesting failure mode for an endpoint monitoring provider.
Tomas Koprusak — UptimeRobot