The Spampede Filter

This post can also be found on the Grab Engineering blog In Southeast Asia, when it rains, it pours. It’s a major mood dampener especially if you are stuck...

Post-Incident Questionnaire for Engineers

This is my light-hearted attempt to help engineers get the most value out of a downtime incident.

Getting Started with SRE – Step 2 – Dashboards

Introduction In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the goal of understanding how our system performs by adding instrumentation. This article expands on this goal by taking...

Post-Incident Questionnaire for Managers

This is my light-hearted attempt to help engineering managers get the most value out of a downtime incident. Introduction So you had an incident? Condolences.On...
designing resilient systems

Designing resilient systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 2)

This post can also be found on the Grab Engineering blog This post is the second part of the series on Designing Resilient Systems. In Part 1, we looked...