A message from our sponsor, VictorOps:
Containers and microservices can improve development speed and service flexibility. But, more complex systems have a higher potential for incidents. Learn how SRE teams are building more reliable services and adding context to microservices and containerized environments:
http://try.victorops.com/sreweekly/container-monitoring-and-alerting-best-practices
Articles
Imagine a database that promises consistency except in the case of a network partition, in which case it favors availability. That’s conditional consistency, and it’s effectively the same as no consistency.
Daniel Abadi
This is a story about distributed coordination, the TCP API, and how we debugged and fixed a bug in Puma that only shows up at scale.
Richard Schneeman — Heroku
Here’s more on the Australian Tax Office outage earlier this month.
Max Smolaks — The Register
Ever experience a total outage while your cloud provider still reports 99.999% availability? This one’s for you.
rachelbythebay
What’s good or bad to do in production? And how do you transfer knowledge when new team members want to release production services or take the ownership of existing services?
Jaana B. Dogan (JBD)
The internet is a series of tubes — the kind that transmit light. Favorite thing I learned: fiber optic cables are sheathed in copper that powers repeaters along their length.
James Griffiths — CNN
How do you build a reliable network when faced with highly skilled and motivated adversaries?
Alex Wawro — DARKReading
Outages
- PagerDuty
- Click through for their write-up.
- Galileo (European SatNav)
- More detail here.
- Amazon
- This was the traditional Prime Day instability
- Apple Store Website
- GitHub
- See GitHub’s follow-up post for a bit more detail.
- Slack
