Increment: Reliability
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This quarter’s Increment issue is about Reliability, and I haven’t had this much fun since their first issue about on-call. I’ll include a few of the articles here and more in later issues as I have a chance to review them.
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Heidi Waterhouse
Everything is broken, and it’s okay
Accepting that imperfect things still work is fundamental to preventing failures from becoming catastrophes.
This issue shares approaches to reliability and resiliency in our software, technologies, and teams, and offers perspectives on the realities of failure in the systems we build.
Heidi Waterhouse### Everything is broken, and it’s okay Accepting that imperfect things still work is fundamental to preventing failures from becoming catastrophes.
Ryn Daniels### How to build organizational resilience By encoding resilience into an organization’s culture, engineering teams can be better equipped to tackle the unknown and unexpected.
Tanya Reilly### Embrace your inner incident commander The way we fight fires affects how quickly we can resolve outages. Appointing an incident commander can help—and you (yes, you) can be one.
Benoit Baudry and Martin Monperrus### Testing beyond coverage Pseudo-tested methods can be a reliability risk. Here, the authors explain how they developed a methodology and tool to uncover them in Java applications.
Tess Donnelly and Tiarnán de Burca### Trust is an enabling technology To build a high-performing software delivery system, your stack’s capabilities are just one part of the picture.
Mads Hartmann### Tracing a path to observability A chronicle of Glitch’s efforts to gain visibility into its production systems—and make them more reliable.
Ana Margarita Medina### Chaotic good As software systems become ever more complex, chaos engineering provides a (not-actually-so-chaotic) tool kit for building more reliable and resilient systems.
Safia Abdalla### Open-source excursions: Optimizing for operational resiliency Documentation, automation, and a little sharing-is-caring can help OSS projects maintain their uptime.
Georgios Bakirtzis### Responsible development for the physical world A case for designing consumer software with safety-critical principles and formal methods in mind.
Ipsita Agarwal### Interview: Dr. David D. Woods A discussion of the distinctions (and dependencies) between reliability and resilience, and how to build complex systems that perform under strain and surprise.
Mathieu Frappier, Dorothy Jung, and Qui Nguyen### The process: Implementing Yelp’s failover strategy How Yelp engineers orchestrated their traffic failover process and effected a delicate balance between reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
John Allspaw, Beth Adele Long, and Dr. Richard Cook### On adaptive capacity in incident response Learnings for tech orgs looking to adopt a resilience engineering perspective.
Lara Hogan### Your brain on progress Strategies for nurturing that feel-good sense of accomplishment when doing largely invisible work.
Ian Steadman### Earth, wind, and solar fire If a major solar storm were to sweep across Earth, would today’s electrical and communications infrastructure be resilient enough to endure its impact?
Poornima Apte### Home sweet home network Facing dramatic shifts in residential usage, internet service providers are working to keep latency low and connectivity high.
Increment Staff### Reliability at scale Leaders at Deliveroo, DigitalOcean, Fastly, and Headspace share how their organizations think about reliability and resiliency and their advice to engineering orgs embarking on reliability journeys.
Ipsita Agarwal### Case study: Resilience as adaptability at Freshworks The company’s disaster preparedness plan, developed in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone, enabled it to adapt and endure during a global pandemic.
Chris Stokel-Walker### Case study: How Akamai weathered a surge in capacity growth Seeing a year’s worth of capacity growth in a matter of weeks, the CDN services provider hustled to build and reinforce the infrastructure it needed to serve its users (and European soccer fans).
