jan 2024

discuss/2024-january.txt

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+Date and Time: 16 January 2024
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+Topics discussed:
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+Oncall Handovers
+- ref Chad Todd's talk at SREcon23
+- https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon23americas/presentation/todd
+- handoff meeting --> create tasks to improve system + severity/urgency (eg alert nonactionable)
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+Test to Production Environments. To have reliable code delivery, does anyone leverage a production alpha environment?
+- Option: Preview mode for customers to opt-in, try new things.
+- we use our own CIO / IT organization as Client-0, before we open to clients. For some critical services, we ask any/all employees to hammer the system in a defined window
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+Hiring market right now?
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+What AI tools could we use to improve reliability?
+- idea: start with the data! what do you have already?
+- Similar Incidents, commands, culprits. Risk Assessments of a given release.
+- https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon19emea/presentation/underwood
+- Anomoly Detection
+- is this already AI, or simply statistics ?
+- Story Generation: it might be right? at least a good place to start

discuss/index.md

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 ## Summaries of recent discussions
 
+* [2024-January](2024-january.txt)
 * [2023-October](2023-october.txt)
 * [2023-September](2023-september.txt)
 * [2023-August](2023-august.txt)

discuss/stats.txt

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 2023-08-15: 25 attendees, 41m average duration
 2023-09-19: 36 attendees, 68m average duration
-2023-10-18: 25 attendees, 46m average duration
+2023-10-18: 25 attendees, 46m average duration
+2024-01-16: 20 attendees, 46m average duration