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# Use Memes
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- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #428（2024-06-09）
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- **作者**: Ross Brodbeck
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- **链接**: https://hross.substack.com/p/use-memes
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## 简介
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> The effectiveness of memes in availability campaigns.
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This short post is a pile of memes, and the video one is top notch.
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## 正文
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As I have said before, availability isn’t usually “fun” and [one of the jobs of SRE is to evangelize](https://hross.substack.com/p/sre-evangelist).
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One of the more effective ways to communicate broad concepts is… a meme. It can feel… foolish… at a “professional” company to plaster goofy images all over the place and possibly even put yourself out there (even at GitHub), but it also works.
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Stupid things are way more memorable than boring powerpoint slides. Here are some that we have used at GitHub, not all of which I can take credit for.
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**In a campaign to get our engineers to declare internal incidents early and often:**
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**Rewarding our early incident commanders with challenge coins that have our oft repeated availability slogan (“Availability is Job 1”):**
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**Our required first responder training video has walruses attacking the data center (h/t [Kyle Robertson](https://medium.com/@jsakyle)):**
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**Here is me slamming my arm in a door to demonstrate mitigation vs. root cause** (broadway is not in my future)**:**
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Finally, I wanted to point out a great podcast episode about [David Henke building a culture of “site up” at Yahoo](https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/david-henke-on-building-a-culture) which also seemed to [feature its own memes](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rcarltonr/846179847):
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Happy memeing!
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