Articles
An airplane pilot’s take on runbooks, by way of comparison to aviation checklists.
Bill Duncan
This article demonstrates that we don’t need to be afraid of spinning up a new thread per connection, and Linux is very good at what it does. This seems to have been a surprisingly controversial point of view, judging by the follow-up article.
Rachel by the bay
It’s not as easy as you think… even if you think it’s not easy.
Oren Eini — RavenDB
Atlassian shows us what’s changed in operations, based on their State of Incident Management survey.
A little over half of survey respondents – 51 percent – reported that their incident response time has been slower since beginning to work remotely
Patrick Hill — Atlassian
A key idea here is that rather than focusing on simply focusing on identifying fixes for parts involved in the event and instead focusing on developing a richer understanding of the event, a much greater ROI the effort will result, and that will include more effective “fixes” and more.
John Allspaw
The part about pandemic-induced decision fatigue was revelatory for me.
Hannah Culver — Blameless
Gremlin talks about Failover Conf, and I love that it pretty much reads like a retrospective.
Kimbre Lancaster — Gremlin
