SRE NEWSLETTER

Issue #21 // April 2, 2021

The Manager's Handbook
// themanagershandbook.com
This free handbook was written as pat of the internal management training program at Clearbit with the goal of developing world-class managers. It includes the following topics: managing yourself, hiring & onboarding, coaching & feedback, working as a team, creating & achieving goals, information sharing, and conflict resolution.
Glynn Lunney — SRE Leadership
// flyingbarron.medium.com
The post pays homage to Glynn Lunney, one of the most senior engineersof the Apollo project, by applying his lessons to site reliability engineering.
How to Analyze Incidents Better with the Right Metrics
// blameless.com
Good incident analysis involves building an incident retrospective. ThBut choosing which metrics are best to analyze can be difficult. You need to find the valuable signals among the noise. You’ll want your metrics to reflect how the incident impacted your customers.
7 Top Site Reliability Engineer Job Iinterview Questions
// enterprisersproject.com
Kevin Casey lays out 7 questions for the SRE interview to help gauge both soft and technical skills.
Developer Tools can be Magic. Instead, they Collect Dust.
// pathsensitive.com
Tools research is light-years ahead of what's being deployed. It is not unusual at all to read a 20 year-old paper with a tool empirically shown to make programmers 4x faster at a task, and for the underlying idea to still be locked in academia. James Koppel gives a taste of what to expect from advanced tools — and the ways in which we are sliding back.
Stop Being Frantic About Code Testing
// unixsheikh.com
Soem people have more code in their tests than in the actual code base. You might think that unit testing helps you avoid technical problems, but unit testing can be more about getting a psychological effect rather than a technical one.
Balancing Act: The Current Limits of AWS Network Load Balancers
// ably.com
Ably evaulates AWS network load balancers and finds issues with maximum target group size and connection stability. In their experience anything over 200,000 connections per NLB begins to be a challenge.
Git Email Flow vs Github Flow
// blog.brixit.nl
This post compares the Github and Gitlab pull request workflow to the Git built-in email workflow.
A New Cloudflare Web Application Firewall
// blog.cloudflare.com
The new WAF brings better rule browsing and configuration, a new matching engine, updated rulesets and global configuration.
AWS Announces Next CEO
// aboutamazon.com
Adam Selipsky will be the next CEO of AWS. Adam and AWS's Sales, Marketing, and Support for 11 years and was the CEO for Tableau for the last 4.5 years.