The What, When, Why, and How of Testing
When it comes to testing, the most common misunderstanding is the motivations of testing itself. Some folks see testing as a burden imposed from on high. Some folks see testing, or more specifically, test coverage, as a metric that determines how well they did their job. Sorry, but neither of these is true.
This post will address these fallacies and give you a different perspective on testing.
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...
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.
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...