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NOTAM for SREs

In aviation, NOTAMs are “Notices to Airmen” for conditions that are generally temporary and hence not information published in the usual places. Continue reading “NOTAM for SREs”

Author bduncanPosted on 2021-02-01Categories Aviation, Documentation, SRETags Aviation, NOTAMS1 Comment on NOTAM for SREs

SPOFs and Partial Panel

In both aviation and systems we build in redundancies wherever practical to avoid unpleasantness when components or subsystems fail. Continue reading “SPOFs and Partial Panel”

Author bduncanPosted on 2019-12-072021-02-01Categories Aviation, devops, Monitoring, SRETags dashboards, monitoring, partial-panel, Single Points of Failure, SPOFLeave a comment on SPOFs and Partial Panel

Traffic At 2 O’clock!

Up in the air, your eyes can’t be everywhere, all the time. You’re trained to scan the skies for “traffic” (other flying machines) as well as scanning instrumentation in the cockpit. Continue reading “Traffic At 2 O’clock!”

Author bduncanPosted on 2019-11-222021-02-01Categories Aviation, devops, SRETags Detecting performance problems, diagnosing issues, on-call, preventing disasterLeave a comment on Traffic At 2 O’clock!

Own It !!

We were heading back from the practice area to the airport. I didn’t have my pilot license yet and my instructor says: “Push the throttle to Rental Speed!”. Continue reading “Own It !!”

Author bduncanPosted on 2019-10-312021-02-01Categories Aviation, devops, SRETags environments, on-call, ownership1 Comment on Own It !!

Checklists and Runbooks

We’ve been flying planes much longer than we’ve been running systems in production, so it might be instructive to learn what we can from our fellow aviators.. Continue reading “Checklists and Runbooks”

Author bduncanPosted on 2018-11-272021-02-01Categories Aviation, Documentation, SRETags Aviation, Checklists, Runbooks1 Comment on Checklists and Runbooks

Operations in the Cloud

As an SRE, I’m very fortunate to have had training as a pilot. There are many similarities to system operations.. Continue reading “Operations in the Cloud”

Author bduncanPosted on 2018-08-062021-02-01Categories Aviation, devops, SRE1 Comment on Operations in the Cloud

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