SREview Issue #6 October 2020

Originally published on Failure is Inevitable.

BOO! Did we scare you? We couldn’t help it, we’re just so happy it’s spooky season. Here’s the October issue of SREview! This monthly zine features epic Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community.

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Tweets that have us twittering

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The Comprehensive Guide on SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets: This 27-page guide walks through how to set SLIs and SLOs that matter to make data-informed decisions.

Here's your Complete Definition of Software Reliability: In this blog post, we’ll break down what software reliability means in terms of perception, team operation, and customer happiness.

Alerting on SLOs: Glitch’s Mads Hartmann writes about the team’s progress in adopting SLOs, including the motivation behind implementation.

How to Construct a Reliability Model for your Organization: In this post, we’ll construct a basic reliability model and show you how to create one for your own organization.

Four Things I Wish I Knew as the New CTO of a Startup: Isabel Nyo writes about her experiences as CTO of a small startup and key lessons learned over the course of a year.

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Blameless Bi-Weekly Demo October 20 at 8 AM PST: Check out a live demo of Blameless as we walk you through operations best practices, and get your questions answered.

Unscripted Conference October 21-22: DevOps practitioners, and technology leaders to learn and share stories of simplified software delivery at scale, but with a twist.

Achieving Zero Downtime October 22 at 10 AM PST: Learn from Cindy Sridharan on how to conduct zero downtime deployments at the latest 99 Percent DevOps Talk from Lightstep.

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