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Need another team to do something fast? Just use this one weird trick: declare an incident! This article explains why the obvious solution (gating incident declaration) isn’t a good idea.
Brent Chapman
Ethics are relative, right? This article is full of genuinely useful tips and framings.
Thomas A. Limoncelli — ACM Queue
Whoa. It’s been quite a few years since my last run-in with an overfull conntrack table, and this is a fun new twist.
Jorrick Sleijster — Adyen
For eight years I ran SRE for a storage system measured in exabytes. The dashboard I checked every morning shrank to seven numbers. Here they are.
Sridhar Rajarao
Traditional observability monitors execution. LLM observability must monitor behavior.
Barnadeep Bhowmik
This one has a lot of great detail on how their approaches to quota management failed and how they iterated.
Dhyanam Vaidya, Prathamesh Deshpande, and Mike Ma — Uber
This article uses Voyager 1, whose engineers just shut down another instrument to conserve its steadily-decaying power, as an extended analogy for graceful degradation.
Robert Barron