As part of the new year, I’m going through my feed readers for podcasts and blogs. This is mostly a cleanup exercise to remove sources that I regularly skip, but I’m also adding in a few feeds for sites that I find myself regularly clicking on in social media. As part of this, I figured I’d share the sources that made the cut to stick around.
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Adam’s weekly (-ish) update, 2022-12-20
What’s new
The past few weeks have been on the intense side at work, so I completely lost track of the blog and haven’t had a chance to write much in that time. However, I’m now on a holiday break, and finally have time to sit down at a keyboard to write more than code and Slack messages.
Continue readingAdam’s weekly update, 2022-11-27
What’s new
The first thing that’s new is… this post! I’m going to try to do at least a weekly post on the blog now, just a general update and some links. This will hopefully help me get back into the habit of writing on the blog regularly, and maybe inspire me to write a bit more in general.
Continue readingInteresting links I clicked this week
I watched several really interesting talks from SRECon22 Americas this week, and in particular I’d like to highlight:
- Principled Performance Analytics, Narayan Desai and Brent Bryan from Google. Some interesting thoughts on quantitative analysis of live performance data for monitoring and observability purposes, moving past simple percentile analysis.
- The ‘Success’ in SRE is Silent, Casey Rosenthal from Verica.io. Interesting thoughts here on the visibility of reliability, qualitative analysis of systems, and why regulation and certification might not be the right thing for web systems.
- Building and Running a Diversity-focused Pre-internship program for SRE, from Andrew Ryan at
FacebookMeta. Some good lessons-learned here from an early-career internship-like program, in its first year. - Taking the 737 to the Max, Nickolas Means from Sym. A really interesting analysis of the Boeing 737 Max failures from both a technical and cultural perspective, complete with some graph tracing to understand failure modes.
I also ran across some other articles that I’ve been actively recommending and sharing with friends and colleagues, including:
- Plato’s Dashboards, Fred Hebert at Honeycomb. This article has some great analysis of how easily-measurable metrics are often poor proxies for the information we’re actually interested in, and discussing qualitative research methods as a way to gain more insight.
- The End of Roe Will Bring About A Sea Change In The Encryption Debate, Rianna Pfefferkorn from the Stanford Internet Observatory. You should absolutely go read this article, but to sum up: Law enforcement in states than ban abortion is now absolutely part of the threat model that encrypted messaging defends against. No one claiming to be a progressive should be arguing in favor of “exceptional access” or other law enforcement access to encryption.