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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/08/11/declaring-incidents-for-side-effects/" target="_blank">When declaring an incident becomes everyone’s favorite workaround</a></div>
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<p>Need another team to do something fast? Just use this one weird trick: declare an incident! This article explains why the obvious solution (gating incident declaration) isn&#8217;t a good idea.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<small>Brent Chapman</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&#038;id=3830399" target="_blank">Unethical Ways to Manage Technical Debt</a></div>
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<p>Ethics are relative, right? This article is full of genuinely useful tips and framings.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<small>Thomas A. Limoncelli &mdash; ACM Queue</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub/inside-cilium-cni-solving-kubernetes-pod-setup-timeouts" target="_blank">Solving mysterious Kubernetes pod setup timeouts by tuning conntrack garbage collection</a></div>
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<p>Whoa. It&#8217;s been quite a few years since my last run-in with an overfull conntrack table, and this is a fun new twist.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<small>Jorrick Sleijster &mdash; Adyen</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://sridharrajarao.com/blog/storage-at-scale/" target="_blank">Storage at scale: what I actually watched</a></div>
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<p>For eight years I ran SRE for a storage system measured in exabytes. The dashboard I checked every morning shrank to seven numbers. Here they are.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<small>Sridhar Rajarao</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://pub.towardsai.net/the-rise-of-cognitive-observability-a77e33250037" target="_blank">The Rise of Cognitive Observability</a></div>
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<p><i>Traditional observability monitors execution. LLM observability must monitor behavior.</i></p>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<small>Barnadeep Bhowmik</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/from-static-rate-limiting-to-intelligent-load-management/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management</a></div>
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<p>This one has a lot of great detail on how their approaches to quota management failed and how they iterated.</p>
<p>  <small>Dhyanam Vaidya, Prathamesh Deshpande, and Mike Ma — Uber</small></p>
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<div class="sreweekly-title"><a href="https://www.flyingbarron.com/2026/04/voyager-and-art-of-graceful-degradation.html" target="_blank">Voyager and the Art of Graceful Degradation</a></div>
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<p>This article uses Voyager 1, whose engineers just shut down another instrument to conserve its steadily-decaying power, as an extended analogy for graceful degradation.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<small>Robert Barron</small></p>
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