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Several in-depth posts this week on crunch operations topics, including metrics for incident response, SLOs and SLIs and the idea that you build it, you run it.

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News

A post on using mean time to to improve incident response. Good discussion of choices about what metrics to use.
[https://www.infoq.com/articles/mtt-metrics-incident-response/](https://www.infoq.com/articles/mtt-metrics-incident-response/)

A comprehensive post on setting SLOs and SLIs for complex distributed systems.
https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/best-practices-for-setting-slos-and-slis-for-modern-complex-systems

You build it, you run it. A familiar phrase, but the following playbook explores what that means and how to implement it to improve service operations.
https://www.equalexperts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/YBIYRI_Playbook-4.pdf

There is a lot of interest in software bill of materials (SBOMs) at the moment, but a lot of that has been focused on creating SBOMs. This post looks an another aspect, storage and distribution.
https://www.rkvst.com/sbom-distribution-manifesto/

Down the rabbit hole of one team debugging a AWS EC2 networking issue related to sending large packets.
https://medium.com/in-the-hudl/operation-jumbo-drop-how-sending-large-packets-broke-our-aws-network-ff5041fc7a09

Databases and applications are often still considered quite separately, separate specialists and sometimes teams. This post speculates about what vertical integration in that space might mean.
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/03/21/vertical-integration/

A detailed look at detecting silent errors in large scale systems, combining opportunistic and ripple testing to detect hard-to-find issues.
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/03/17/production-engineering/silent-errors/

Tools

kube-opex-analytics is a cost optimization tool for Kubernetes. Collect data, surface to Prometheus/Grafana, focused on capacity planning and cost.
https://github.com/rchakode/kube-opex-analytics

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