Sorry, a little late this week as my family and I head off to Disney World! No issue next Sunday, and I’ll see you all on April 29.
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Articles
I have different thoughts than the author on a few of the points, but it’s very useful and enlightening to see their thought process.
Will Gallego
What it says on the tin. Pretty neat CI setup!
Bridget Lane — USA Today
Full disclosure: Fastly, my employer, is mentioned.
“Why-run” mode is Chef’s “do nothing” or “dry run” mode. As it turns out, it may not be so useful when trying to figure out what Chef will do.
Julian Dunn — Chef
Lots of deep thoughts on what makes on-call hard and what we can do about it.
Cody Wilbourn
One little typo is all it took.
Rachel Kroll
Q&A about a task queuing system that freezes up if the queue is kept full at all times.
A new hire tells us what it’s like to get up to speed as an SRE at Hosted Graphite.
Evan Smith — Hosted Graphite
Outages
- Discord
- Mauritania
- Another one of those “oh look an entire country lost its Internet, this is the first time that’s ever happened!!1” articles.
