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Articles
Domino model, Swiss Cheese model, stand aside. The Gamma Knife model is a nifty analogy for contributing factors.
Lorin Hochstein
Lots of great tips here for how to make things easier on yourself when you’re paged. Pave the way for your 3 am self to get things fixed and get back to sleep as soon as possible.
Katie McLaughlin (Sysadvent day 21)
Ooh, a new SRE podcast! PagerDuty started things up with 4 episodes right out of the gate.
Introducing “Page It To The Limit,” a new podcast by the Community team here at PagerDuty that discusses what it means to operate software in production.
Wow, I love the idea of this shadowing program. The author discusses incidents they saw and 5 things they learned while shadowing.
Tristan Read — GitLab
Outages
- ACH
- ACH is the Automated Clearinghouse, the system that underpins money transfer in the US.
- Twitte
- New Zealand stock exchange
- UPS
- Hulu
- Whirlpool Recall Website
- Whirlpool issued a recall of 500,000 washing machines, and their recall information website went down.
- Hosted Graphite
