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Articles
This is the best thing to hit incident analysis since the Etsy Debriefing Facilitation Guide and the PagerDuty retrospective guide! This one’s even better because it’s not just about the retrospective, but the whole incident analysis process.
BONUS CONTENT: A preview/introduction by Lorin Hochstein.
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SysAdvent is back!
When teams only consult briefly on reliability or operational concerns, often the final output doesn’t adequately reflect customer or engineering expectations of reliability of the product or operability of the internals.
Martin Smith (edited by Jennifer Davis) — SysAdvent
What can Dungeons and Dragons teach us about SRE?
Jennifer Davis — SysAdvent
It’s so true. Don’t forget to read the alt text.
Randall Munroe
This talk (with transcript) includes three stories about how incident analysis can be super effective.
Nora Jones — InfoQ
I know this is SRE Weekly and not Security Weekly, but this vulnerability is so big that I’m sure many of us triggered your incident response process, and some of us may have even had to take services down temporarily.
John Graham-Cumming — Cloudflare
What a colorful metaphor. This article discusses an effective technique for breaking up a monolith, one piece at a time.
Alex Yates — Octopus Deploy
This article proposes a method of eliminating the need for a central team of architects, and it strikes me as very similar to the practice of SRE itself.
Andrew Harmel-Law
More from the VOID, this piece is about the importance of analyzing “near miss” events.
Courtney Nash — Verica
If you load-test in production, don’t include your load-test traffic in your SLO calculation.
Liz Fong-Jones — Honeycomb
Outages
- AWS us-east-1 region (and half the web)
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Between the AWS outage and log4j, it’s been a busy week. Amazon has already posted a write-up about the incident, which includes the notable tidbit that their circuit-breaker/back-off code failed.
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