When you're not the primary on-call but you're the 'backup' for a critical system, do you prefer to receive 'silent' notifications just to stay aware, or do you turn everything off entirely until you are officially paged?

#alert24 #monitoringtools #saas #devops #oncall #sre

A postmortem that's easy to write is probably not doing the thinking.

The argument is the value.

#sre #incident

pg_dump is not a backup strategy. A bad migration dropped the orders table at 02:14 - nightly dumps meant 14 hours of data gone. WAL archiving with https://www.valtersit.com/guides/databases/stop_using_pg_dump_for_production_backups-the_case_for_wal_archiving/ #postgresql #pgbackrest #sre

Stop asking: “Which EC2 instance should I use?” … and ask instead: “What does one unit of my work cost, at the latency my users need?”

That was the idea behind today’s EC2 performance workshop at SREcon EMEA ;-)

#SRE #PerformanceEngineering #AWS

⚡ Remote (US) Principal ML System Engineer at PointClickCare.
✅ Apply here: https://jobicy.com/jobs/155276-us-principal-ml-system-engineer

#RemoteJobs #PlatformEngineering #CloudEngineering #Infrastructure #SRE

Regla no escrita de Kubernetes: si un pod lleva tres días en CrashLoopBackOff y nadie ha preguntado, no era tan importante. Si lleva tres minutos y es el de pagos, ya tienes a medio Slack mirando el canal.
#Kubernetes #SRE

8/ Shadow it 2-3 weeks first, score verdicts vs what humans did. An agent that cries freeze at every transient 6x burn gets muted fast, and muted is worse than the spreadsheet. Full build + code:
https://devtocash.com/blog/2026-08-16-error-budget-ai-agent-slo-burn-rate
#SRE #SLO

"From Local Logs to Amazon CloudWatch: Decoupling Observability for SREs" by MD. Gyasuddin Mansuri

#sre #devops #amazon-eks #observability #aws-cloudwatch

Tail sampling cuts what you store, but your own Collectors still receive every span.

The memory they need is arrival rate x decision window x bytes per trace.

Why a tail sampler has to hold every trace before it can drop any, in The Harder Distributed System #3.

#Tracing #OpenTelemetry #SRE

◇ Senior Site Reliability Engineer -AI Infrastructure Operations @ nscale
Houston; San Francisco; Seattle

https://o11y.jobs/jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer-ai-infrastructure-operations-nscale-317101?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jobs
#jobs #incidentresponse #sre #backend

⚡ Remote Senior Systems Engineer at Fueled.
✅ Apply here: https://jobicy.com/jobs/155236-senior-systems-engineer-2

#RemoteJobs #DevOps #DevOpsJobs #CloudJobs #SRE

The latest update for #IncidentHub includes "The October 8, 2026 #GoogleCloud Storage Outage" and "The September 30, 2026 Railway Outage".

#incidentmanagement #SRE #DevOps https://opsmtrs.com/4ekxTp9

#Elastic announces the private preview of Elastic nightshift #AI #SRE, an AI agent built into Elastic #Observability that investigates like an engineer and shows its work.

#Logging #Elasticsearch #DevOps https://opsmtrs.com/4sc60Yb

Great article by @conall who's been at the coal face for many years.

Not just an excellent read for humans, it's LLM friendly so you can give it to your AI as steering guidelines.

https://writings.conall.dev/documents/sre-alerting-guidelines/

#sre #alerting #devops

A queue turns a throughput problem into a latency problem and stays green on the dashboard.

Alert on age, not depth.

#distributedsystems #sre

◇ Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Security @ MongoDB
Austin; New York City

https://o11y.jobs/jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer-infrastructure-security-mongodb-668289?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jobs
#jobs #logs #monitoring #sre