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Site Reliability Engineering, 2nd Edition
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Site Reliability Engineering, 2nd Edition

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Christof Leng, David Huska, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
September 2026
Intermediate to advanced
771 pages
21h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix C. Example Production Meeting Minutes

Date: 2025-10-23 Attendees: agoogler, clarac, docbrown, jennifer, martym Announcements

  • Major outage (#465), blew through error budget

Previous Action Item Review

  • Certify Goat Teleporter for use with cattle (bug 1011101)

    • Nonlinearities in mass acceleration now predictable, should be able to target accurately in a few days.

Outage Review

  • New Sonnet (outage 465)

    • 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

    • File descriptor leak bug fixed (bug 5554825) and deployed to prod

    • Looking into using flux capacitor for load balancing (bug 5554823) and using load shedding (bug 5554826) to prevent recurrence

    • 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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