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Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020

Honeycomb

We suspected a hardware issue, terminated the instance, and brought up a new one, which resolved the problem. 8/3 – Query engine lambda startup failures : A code change was merged that prevented the lambda-based portion of our query engine from starting. Disk I/O had gone to near-zero and CPU had spiked as well.

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The Case for Minimalist Infrastructure

Stacks on Stacks

Every engineering manager should have a ratio in their head of work hours spent in their organization on software engineering vs other related tasks (ops, QA, product management, etc…). We came from bare-metal hardware to datacenter VMs, then VMs in the cloud and later containers. This should never happen.