Sun.Nov 21, 2021

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Incident Review: Google Cloud Outage

DZone

Outages on the Internet always catch you by surprise, whether you are the end user or the Head of Site Reliability trying to keep a clear mind while you execute your incident playbook. As people in charge of ensuring reliable services for our customers, our normal experience of outages involves surfing a deluge of fire alarms and crisis calls as we work to solve the problem as quickly as we can.

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How To Get Automated Tests Written

Professor Beekums

“It will be easier to get people to write automated tests if we make it easier to write the tests.” I hear this a lot. It seems sensible. It it also ineffective. The key to getting dev teams to write automated tests isn’t reducing friction. Friction isn’t the issue. It doesn’t matter if you can get things to a point where it only takes a few minutes to write tests for a feature that took days to build.

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