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It is completely appropriate that Brendan is speaking with 3 adorable plushies on the podium (of the conference mascot, a penguin wearing a frog hat) #sre-next

Yesterday I was suddenly fired. Not a RIF. No PIP. All signals pointed in the opposite direction. "Your skills are no longer needed" just out of the fucking blue.

Last night I had the first nightmare I've had in well over a year, if not more. This is the 11th time I have been kicked from a company. And that's the part that's hitting me the hardest.

(psst I am looking for a job!)

I'm looking for some people to help me collaborate on writing technical documentation for Django, Python and Debain.

There will be image diagrams that help convey the layer of abstraction to think in to bring django to production while managed with systemd

If that is interesting, please interact with this post.

It drives me fucking bananas that SREs at my company are not considered Engineers and are not included in DevEx. On purpose. For the love of all that's holy!!!!!!!1

Brought to you by: a longish motivational thing the VP of Engineering dropped in their channel today that really showed some care for helping people in their careers and learn.

But it's that this stuff was made explicit, by a leader, that really sets it apart and illustrates how dysfunctional the TechOps side of the org is growing without any leadership. They've flattened the entire thing out so that managers are reporting directly to the CTO and are taking on 10-15 reports, minimum. It's a ticket factory, not a collaboration.

Dear Fedi,

For 3 years, I've been working with friends from the #FOSS world as a team of freelancers and it's been great: we love what we do and our clients are happy and stay with us for years.

But the terrible state of the world has badly affected our clients financially, and we find ourselves suddenly in need of more #work

We focus on systems design, development, and administration. We offer SRE-level quality and processes for companies that cannot afford a whole #SRE team

Boosts welcomed

I always appreciate a good write-up of outages and Google had one for their outage on the 12th. They put in new policies around quota handling, but then that had some unexpected side effects. Since they didn't have a feature flag to turn it off quickly, recovery took a little bit longer.

One reason I like this is it makes you think of what features need to go into APIs/services and how everything fits together. Google runs planet-scale infrastructure, but I think there are takeaways for projects of any size in write-ups like these.

status.cloud.google.com/incide

status.cloud.google.comGoogle Cloud Service Health
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System Administration

Week 12, System Security III: From the Attack Life Cycle to Zero Trust

In this video, we continue approaching System Security from an attacker's point of view by understanding their common processes, following the Attack Life Cycle (with doggos!) and then identifying how our defenses, supported by the Zero Trust model, can interrupt each stage.

youtu.be/mNxHw5XzxJw

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System Administration

Week 12, System Security II: Defining a Threat Model

In this video, we look at the concept of a Threat Model and how the attack economics may shift based on your adversaries capabilities and motives. We introduce the STRIDE and DREAD models and draw a few circles, of course.

youtu.be/nZQboq3gjgg

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System Administration

Week 12, System Security I: Risk Assessment

In this video, we begin our dedicated discussion of System Security with a look back at how we've talked about security relevant aspects in previous videos and then moving forward to defining how we can begin to assess risk rather than attempt to "secure" a system.

youtu.be/KZi9ZWF6vWI