SRE Monthly Roundup — May 2022

Hi friends 👋

Welcome to the third edition of the SRE Monthly Roundup. Our guest this month is Artem Yakimenko, Director, SRE & Security at Mr Yum.

After spending almost 8 years at Google, Artem took on the challenge of building out the SRE function at Mr Yum. Tune in to hear us talking about:

Embedded SRE at Mercari | Mercari 11 min read

Real-world & detailed description about the embedded SRE topology at Mercari by @deeeet. If you’re reaching that team size where embedded makes sense, I’m sure you can replicate several of the processes they have going on at Mercari.

Are your SLOs realistic? How to analyze your risks like an SRE | Google Cloud 10 min read

I’ve seen how easy it is to give an arbitrary, “that-seems-about-right” value to an SLO. Well, it might even be recommended to do exactly that during the discovery/exploratory phase of SLO implementation. However, performing a due diligence on the SLI’s risk factors is just as important as monitoring the SLO — by @AyeletSachto

How to Better Understand your Applications Real-Time Value | Jake Henningsgaard 5 min read

This blog by Jake Henningsgaard introduced me to the concept of Domain-Oriented Observability. It made so much sense to me given the amount of conversations I’ve been having about how to instrument for better SLOs.

Observability Mythbusters: Observability is NOT Only for SREs | Lightstep 6 min read

Just as Jake above, @adrianamvillela explains the benefits of contextual and all-around observability. In this case, it’s about how it can help QA engineers.

Bonus: 

Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents | Spotify Engineering by @spamaps

Improving Distributed Caching Performance and Efficiency | Pinterest Engineering by Kevin Lin

Refactoring and Optimizing a High Traffic API | PayPal Technology Blog by Nisha Bhaskaran and Jeetendra Tiwari

Incidents and Postmortems on the Management level by @greatjapa

This month we’re sharing #HugOps with:

Google Cloud — May 8th and May 24th

Coinbase — May 12th

Slack — May 4th

GitHub — May 27th

Figma — May 17th

DigitalOcean — May 12th

Site Reliability Engineer |  Crossbeam Remote $100k — $140k

Site Reliability Engineer | Epsilon3 Remote $100k — $180k

Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Babylon Health UK + Remote Possible £80k — £100k   

Software Engineer, Site Reliability | Sensible Weather Remote $150k — $200k

Site Reliability Engineer | SWORD Health US + Remote Possible

And that’s it for this month! What have I missed? Tell me on Twitter or [email protected]. See you next month!