SRE Weekly Issue #479

View on sreweekly.com Automatic rollbacks are a last resort Rollbacks don’t always return you to a previous system state. They can return you to a state you’ve never tested or operated before.   Steve Fenton — Octopus Deploy Burn rate is a better error rate This article explains the math of burn rate alerting and gives well thought out reasoning or why burn rates are better.   James Frullo — Datadog Is There A Purpose In Assigning Incident Severity? This hot take is worth thinking about: what do you want to get out of assigning incident severity levels, and is it working? ...

June 2, 2025

Systems Fun at HotOS

June 2, 2025

Terraform migrate 1.1 adds VCS workspace support and enhanced GitOps

Terraform migrate is a command-line tool that simplifies the process of migrating your Terraform state and configuration from Terraform Community Edition to HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise. Previously, Terraform migrate supported only CLI-driven Terraform workflows. With the release of Terraform migrate 1.1, you can now create and configure HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise workspaces linked to GitHub or GitLab repositories as part of your migration configuration. This enables automated runs via the version control system workflow, which provides stronger alignment with GitOps practices. ...

June 2, 2025

Why is enumerating over List faster than IList?

June 2, 2025

EP165: AI Agent versus MCP

✂️Cut your QA cycles down to minutes with QA Wolf (Sponsored)If slow QA processes bottleneck you or your software engineering team and you’re releasing slower because of it — you need to check out QA Wolf. QA Wolf’s AI-native service supports web and mobile apps, delivering 80% automated test coverage in weeks and helping teams ship 5x faster by reducing QA cycles to minutes. ...

May 31, 2025

Check Engine

May 30, 2025

Cloudflare named a Strong Performer in Email Security by Forrester

Today, we are excited to announce that Forrester has recognized Cloudflare Email Security as a Strong Performer and among the top three providers in the ‘current offering’ category in “The Forrester Wave™: Email, Messaging, And Collaboration Security Solutions, Q2 2025” report. Get a complimentary copy of the report here. According to Forrester: “Cloudflare is a solid choice for organizations looking to augment current email, messaging, and collaboration security tooling with deep content analysis and processing and malware detection capabilities.” ...

May 30, 2025

Daily Reading List – May 30, 2025 (#563)

This might be my best reading list of the year. I came across some terrific content and I hope you enjoy it. Next week I’m on vacation, so no reading lists. I’m in Stockholm the following week for our Nordics Summit, and a bunch of customer meetings. Reading list will resume then! [blog] TDD: The Missing Protocol for Effective AI Assisted Software Development. Does a test-driven development approach ensure a higher quality of AI generated code? Here’s one proposed workflow. ...

May 30, 2025

Dew Drop – May 30, 2025 (#4429)

Top Links Agentic DevOps in action: Reimagining every phase of the developer lifecycle (Amanda Silver, Mario Rodriguez & Den Delimarsky) The Modern .NET Show – .NET Aspire: How Maddy Montaquila and the .NET Team Are Revolutionizing Development (Jamie Taylor) .NET MAUI, Flutter, Avalonia, or React Native: Which is Best for You? (Vijayakumar Mariappan) How to run SSMS 21 on Windows 11 Arm64 (Jeremy Sinclair) The Hanselminutes Podcast – Azure AI Foundry (from BUILD 2025) with Yina Arenas (Scott Hanselman) Not just a vibe, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is really here (Erin Yepis) ...

May 30, 2025

Secure AI workloads on Google Cloud with HashiCorp Vault

As AI continues to evolve and integrate into various industries, the need for secure and efficient management of credentials becomes increasingly critical. AI workloads often involve accessing sensitive data and resources, making robust security measures essential to prevent unauthorized access and ensure compliance. HashiCorp Vault offers a powerful solution for dynamic credential management, particularly within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By leveraging the Google Cloud Vault secrets engine, organizations can generate short-lived, temporary credentials that automatically expire, significantly reducing the risk of credential misuse. This dynamic approach eliminates the reliance on static, long-lived credentials, which are more vulnerable to security breaches. ...

May 30, 2025