SRE NEWSLETTER

Issue #35 // July 9, 2021

Elephant in the Blameless War Room: Accountability
// blameless.com
Pointing blame for inevitable system failures is not an appropriate substitution for performance management.
Systems Observability
// blog.last9.io
Observability is not just about being able to ask questions to your systems. It's also about getting those answers in minutes and not hours.
Infrastructure as Code: The Good, the Bad and the Future
// humanitec.com
Many still disagree on the definition and best practices regarding Infrastructure as Code. This article attempts to clearly describe IaC, looking at both the its great benefits and crucial limitations.
What’s New in the Docker and Kubernetes CIS Benchmarks
// blog.aquasec.com
New versions of the Docker and Kubernetes CIS Benchmarks were released recently to capture changes in the new versions of those projects, both to keep things current and to expand coverage to help people keep their environments secure.
Shipping on a Spent Error Budget
// honeycomb.io
This post goes into how Honeycomb used a burned error budget to change how they shipped a feature.
DevOps: A Decade of Confusion and Frustration
// blog.dijit.sh
As a hiring manager, if you only want to hire “DevOps” from only from infrastructure backgrounds or only from software engineering backgrounds: you are actually hiring sysadmins or developers.
The Deeper Root Cause of the Fastly and Akamai Outages
// circleid.com
A diversified internet is ultimately more stable and secure, and only through our collective commercial choice can we achieve it.
Encountering Turbulence on Bitbucket’s Journey to a New Platform
// bitbucket.org
BitBucket is nearing completion on a year-long project to move to an entirely new platform to improve security and reliability moving forward. The move has contributed to recent issues.
Canonical Survey Highlights Skills Shortage in Kubernetes
// portainer.io
It seems everyone wants to believe this tech is the answer to their IT woes, but not everyone is finding the journey and the transition to Kubernetes an easy one.