SREview Issue #3 July 2020

Here’s the July issue of SREview! This monthly zine features epic Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community.

Tweets that have us twittering

SREading

A Doctor Confronts Medical Errors — And Flaws In The System That Create Mistakes: Dr. Danielle Ofri discusses how flaws in the system breed medical mistakes.

SLO Adoption at Twitter: Twitter team talks about investing in centralized tooling to measure, track, and visualize SLOs and error budgets.

A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack: find out exactly what happened May 12, 2020 during Slack’s outage.

Top Practices for Runbook Automation: take a look at five best practices for getting the most out of runbook automation..

Improving Incident Retrospectives at Indeed: Indeed SRE Alex Elman writes about what how to renew interest in routine incident retrospectives.

Blameless' SRE Journey: read how Blameless operationalized SRE by treating ourselves as customer zero, empowering on-call, and more.

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Upcoming events

Modern Metrics for Operations, taking place today July 21, 10AM PST: We’ll walk through top SRE metrics to gain insights into operations health.

SRE from home hosted by Catchpoint July 23, 9 AM PST: SRE from Home will explore how Site Reliability Engineers are adapting to all-remote operations and what we can learn from each other.

Webinar: How SLOs Enable Fast, Reliable Application Delivery hosted by DevOps.com August 6, 10 AM PST: learn how adopting a collaborative approach to implementing service level objectives (SLOs) gives software teams a shared language to focus engineering efforts.

Dash 2020 hosted by DataDog August 11, 8 AM PST: an annual conference about building and scaling the next generation of applications, infrastructure, and technical teams.

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