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<p><a class="email_only" href="https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-531/">View on sreweekly.com</a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center; font-size: 80%; color: #909090;">A message from our sponsor, <a href="https://sreweekly.com/link/531">Planetscale</a>:</h2>
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<p>PlanetScale Metal runs Postgres and Vitess on dedicated NVMe inside AWS and GCP. Get data center speed next to your app, with unlimited IOPS and no throttling. Teams routinely see a 70% drop in p99 and p95 latency after migrating.</p>
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<p><a href="https://sreweekly.com/link/531">→ See the benchmarks</a></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/07/21/heroic-saves-are-near-misses/" target="_blank">Heroic saves are near misses</a></div>
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<p>Celebrating heroes in incident response can incentivize further heroics. That can prevent the kind of growth that will improve incident response overall.</p>
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<p> <small>Brent Chapman</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://ferd.ca/control-and-complexity-tension-in-systems-design.html" target="_blank">Control and complexity: tension in systems design</a></div>
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<p>What might happen when we quickly adopt LLMs and make sweeping changes in our complex systems?</p>
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<p> <small>Fred Hebert</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://dzone.com/articles/structured-logging-in-distributed-systems" target="_blank">Structured Logging in Distributed Systems: What Most Teams Get Wrong and How to Fix It</a></div>
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<p>Most teams log, but log badly: wrong severity levels, no trace IDs, inconsistent fields, and logs siloed from traces.</p>
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<p> <small>Ashwini Dave — DZone</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://humanisticsystems.com/2025/10/14/seeing-the-people-in-control/" target="_blank">Seeing the People In Control</a></div>
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<p>If you had to explain to a neighbour why your organisation is so safe, and generally works well, what would you say?</p>
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<p>It’s all about people. I really enjoyed the quote from Charles Billings on principles for automation.</p>
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<p> <small>Steven Shorrock</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://billduncan.org/type-conversion/" target="_blank">Type Conversion</a></div>
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<p>Type conversion in aviation involves an experienced pilot training on a new kind of aircraft. This article draws a parallel to transitioning to a new job as an SRE.</p>
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<p> <small>Bill Duncan</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://www.uptimelabs.io/articles/incident-response-ai-qa" target="_blank">‘My Boss Wants Me to Pick an AI SRE Tool’: Q&A at Incident Fest (Adaptive Capacity Labs)</a></div>
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<p>Some big names in this Q&A, and they share a couple of delicious morsels.</p>
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<p> <small>Sam Salter — Uptime Labs, with John Allspaw and Beth Adele Long</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-entry">
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug" target="_blank">How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug</a></div>
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<div class="sreweekly-description">
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<p>A super-engaging deep-dive.</p>
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<p>This investigation is a useful reminder: <strong>running boring technology in a non-standard way is a risk.</strong></p>
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<p> <small>Alex Chan — Tailscale</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://www.gremlin.com/blog/optimizing-kubernetes-pod-deployments-for-reliability-with-topology-spread-constraints" target="_blank">Optimizing Kubernetes pods for reliability with topology spread constraints</a></div>
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<div class="sreweekly-description">
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<p>A handy guide on topology constraints in Kubernetes, with a worked example.</p>
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<p> <small>Andre Newman — Gremlin</small></p>
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