Site Reliability Engineering, 2nd Edition
by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Christof Leng, David Huska, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
Appendix C. Example Production Meeting Minutes
Date: 2025-10-23 Attendees: agoogler, clarac, docbrown, jennifer, martym Announcements
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Major outage (#465), blew through error budget
Previous Action Item Review
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Certify Goat Teleporter for use with cattle (bug 1011101)
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Nonlinearities in mass acceleration now predictable, should be able to target accurately in a few days.
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Outage Review
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New Sonnet (outage 465)
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1.21B queries lost due to cascading failure after interaction between latent bug (leaked file descriptor on searches with no results) + not having new sonnet in corpus + unprecedented & unexpected traffic volume
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File descriptor leak bug fixed (bug 5554825) and deployed to prod
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Looking into using flux capacitor for load balancing (bug 5554823) and using load shedding (bug 5554826) to prevent recurrence
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Annihilated availability error budget; pushes to prod frozen for 1 month unless docbrown can obtain exception on grounds that event was bizarre & unforeseeable (but consensus ...
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