SRE NEWSLETTER

Issue #26 // May 7, 2021

100 Days Of Kubernetes
// 100daysofkubernetes.io
100 Days of Kubernetes is the challenge in which we aim to learn something new related to Kubernetes each day across 100 Days!!!
SRE at Google: Our Complete List of CRE Life Lessons
// cloud.google.com
In 2016 Google announced a new discipline, Customer Reliability Engineering, an offshoot of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The goal with CRE was to create a shared operational fate between Google and our Google Cloud customers, to give more control over the critical applications you're entrusting to them.
Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism
// usenix.org
Generic checklists always fall a bit flat, and why it’s very difficult to run a thorough production readiness review for a system that you aren’t deeply familiar with. Both of these are an attempt to substitute techne for metis, which just doesn’t work.
AWS Inter-Region Latency Chart
// cloudping.co
This site tracks inter-region latency over a TCP connection between all AWS regions.
Scaling Monorepo Maintenance
// github.blog
GitHub can repack even the largest repositories they host in a fraction of the time it used to take. In this post, they talk about what problems were encountered, the solution built, how they deployed them safely, and describe some possible future directions.
Why Programmers Don’t Write Documentation
// kislayverma.com
Writing is hard and doesn't help ship features. Kislay Verma offers 5 tips on how to do documentation.
Nginx is Now the Most Popular Web Server
// w3techs.com
For the first time since we started our surveys in 2009, Apache has lost the first spot as the most popular web server to Nginx.
Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects
// blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Estimating and being deadline-driven is a lot less comfortable than choosing not to estimate. But this is not an excuse to not grow your estimations skill.
git-split-diffs
// github.com
GitHub style split diffs with syntax highlighting in your terminal.
Microsoft Acquires Kinvolk
// azure.microsoft.com
Microsoft is excited to bring the expertise of the Kinvolk team to Azure, where they will be key contributors to the engineering development of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Arc, and future projects that will expand Azure’s hybrid container platform capabilities and increase Microsoft’s upstream open source contributions in the Kubernetes and container space.