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...

Getting Started with SRE – Step 1 – Instrumentation

Introduction After we set ourselves the goal of system reliability, our first goal must be awareness.  Simply put, we must be fully aware of how...

Post-Incident Questionnaire for Engineers

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

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...
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...