Just like any great idea Pitt students have, the school’s most beloved tradition of singing “Sweet Caroline” was born at Hemingway’s Cafe.

I have participated in this tradition without knowing the history of it!

😂 Ask me how I know about this!

That single GraphQL issue that you keep missing

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goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.

Cloudflare recently shipped improved upload speeds across our network for clients using HTTP/2. This post describes our journey from troubleshooting an issue to fixing it and delivering faster upload speeds to the global Internet.

They don’t allow outside contributions.

All of the facts are interesting but the one above was especially of interest to me. 🦖 Fossil (a kinda fun VCS) is based on SQLite.

At best, making oncall the exclusive responsibility of an elite SRE class increases our tolerance for complexity.

See Simplicity.

Oncall is a form of toil – it needs to be done but it doesn’t leave our systems in a better state.

Stakeholders see high-profile incident response/oncall happening, and don’t demand clarity on what other work the group is undertaking.

To go further – incident command and management is a specific set of skills that you can definitely be good at, and where the business really, really needs a consistent and competent response, every time. At Twilio, we have a specific team that manages all incidents, follow-up actions, and operational insights around incidents company-wide. We’ve found that making sure that the data and insights around incidents and their followup flows back into the business is a full-time job. Relying on a rotation of variably interested volunteers to ensure this happens will get you mixed results.

It will be useful to have Chapter 11 (Being On-Call) from Google's SRE book available (it's one in a series).