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Logs Are Good, ActuallyMonitorama PDX 20242024-06-10
Argues that plain logs remain essential: uses flight timestamps, local weather, conference GitHub history and text messages to reconstruct a real scheduling…
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Hell Is Other PlatformsSREcon23 Americas2023-03-21
Argues that platforms inevitably appear and one-size-fits-all SRE/devops prescriptions fail, citing AWS EC2, the SRE book and NIST service models as concrete…
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Diamonds with Flaws: Examining the Pressures, Realities, and...SREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa2022-10-25
Argues that SRE is overloaded with responsibilities—cites a 26-item list of tasks and the market full of CI/CD, observability, APM and Kubernetes…
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Panel - Observability: What's the big idea?#MSCreate: DevOps 20212021-10-21
Observability is a superset of monitoring and focuses on detecting emergent behavior that developers cannot predict, not just prewritten alerts. Essential…
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Food for Thought: What Restaurants Can Teach Us about ReliabilitySREcon212021-10-12
Compares restaurant failures — late plates, wrong or burnt food, incorrect bills — to SRE symptoms and maps concrete fixes: add staff to scale, hire runners…
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Earthquakes, Forest Fires, and Your Next Production IncidentLISA192019-10-28
A history of the Incident Command System traces back to the 1970 Laguna Fire (175,000+ acres, 382 homes lost, 16 dead) and shows how a standardized response…
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How to SRE When Everything's Already on FireSREcon19 Europe/Middle East/Africa2019-10-02
Squarespace fixes a months‑long ELK outage by turning vague alerts into a single consumer‑lag / write‑rate SLI, raising SLOs from “5 min 99%” to “2 min 99.9%”…
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