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October 6, 2021

A Vulnerable System

An easy-to-read book covering the history of computer security.

Authors: Rik Farrow

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Rik Farrow

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October 5, 2021

Gazing into the VOID

Laura Nolan argues that reading incident reports can improve our ability to respond to production problems.

Authors: Laura Nolan

Article shepherded by:

Effie Mouzeli

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September 6, 2021

Improving On-call Fatigue

Daria argues the notion that "On-call shifts should be stressful and trying”, by suggesting ideas on how to spin on-call to be positive, educating, and bring teams together.

Authors: Daria Barteneva

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Effie Mouzeli

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August 25, 2021

Thirty-Five Years of LISA

With the LISA conference ending, the LISA Steering Committee decided to collect a history of the conference, that started in 1987 and end in 2021.

Authors: Cory Lueninghoener, Carolyn Rowland

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Rik Farrow

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August 24, 2021

Musings on Operating Systems Research

The lineup, followed by a discussion of Timothy Roscoe's keynote at OSDI and ATC 2021

Authors: Rik Farrow

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Rik Farrow

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July 31, 2021

Avoiding the 'SLOs as Reliability Theater' trap

Jacob Scott discusses some of the 'failure modes' that can happen when Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are imposed in a top-down fashion.

Authors: Jacob Scott

Article shepherded by:

Laura Nolan

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July 16, 2021

Kill It With Fire

Marianne Bellotti's Kill it With Fire is a book on legacy modernization, with a twist: it's written largely from an operations perspective.

Authors: Laura Nolan

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Rik Farrow

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July 16, 2021

Seeing like an SRE

Thomas Depierre argues that SRE can bridge the gap between high-level metrics that management requires and the contextual service-specific knowledge that engineering teams have.

Authors: Thomas Depierre

Article shepherded by:

Laura Nolan

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July 13, 2021

Interview with Vasily Tarasov

Vasily Tarasov explains his journey from Russia and Linux kernel work, to Stony Brook, then IBM, working with file systems.

Authors: Vasily Tarasov, Rik Farrow

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Rik Farrow

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