SRE NEWSLETTER

Issue #32 // June 18, 2021

Terraform 1.0 Launch Keynote
// hashicorp.com
This keynote takes a look at the new features, the promises of 1.0, and the history of Terraform. They also talk about recent updates to Terraform Cloud.
No One Wants to Manage Kubernetes Anymore
// infoworld.com
Managing Kubernetes is hard, and many organizations are starting to realize they can better focus on other, as-yet unsolved engineering problems if they hand off a big chunk of their container orchestration responsibilities to managed service providers.
Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL
// spin.atomicobject.com
Chris Farber talks about how to use PostgreSQL instead of Redis for job queueing, application locks, and pub / sub.
Salesforce CEO: We're Going Slack-First
// finance.yahoo.com
In December, Salesforce signed an agreement to acquire Slack. CEO, Marc Benioff recently said, "We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first."
Disasters I've Seen in a Microservices World
// world.hey.com
Joao Alves discuss 6 pitfalls he's seen in the implementation of microservices: too small services, development environments, end-to-end tests, shared databases, API gateways, and resilience.
How to Become a Bad Developer
// rafaelquintanilha.com
A highly subjective, non-exhaustive unordered list of principles that, if you follow, can guarantee will lead you to become a bad developer.
The MTTR that Matters
// firehydrant.io
Mean time to resolutino (MTTR) is a flawed metric. Robert Ross argues for a new MTTR, mean time to retro.
Implementing ChatOps into our Incident Management Procedure
// shopify.engineering
This post provides an overview of incident management at Shopify, the responsibility of different roles during an incident, and how their chatbot works to support their team.
How Lowe’s Meets Customer Demand with Google SRE Practices
// cloud.google.com
Before adopting SRE practices, Lowe's was more reactive than proactive with too many repetitive and manual tasks resulting in operational toil. They leveraged the SRE framework to meet their needs faster and more effectively.
Architecting Kubernetes Clusters - Choosing the Best Autoscaling Strategy
// learnk8s.io
Scaling pods and nodes in a Kubernetes cluster could take several minutes with the default settings. Learn how to size your cluster nodes, configure the Horizontal and Cluster Autoscaler, and overprovision your cluster for faster scaling.