SRE
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
Richi Jennings | | ai, CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, generative AI, gpl, ibm, large language model, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, LLM, LLMs, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, Oracle, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, SUSE, The Long View, training modelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words ...
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
Richi Jennings | | ActivityPub, Cinder, Elon Musk, fediverse, Instagram, JIT, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastodon, Meta, Meta Platforms, Python, The Long View, ThreadsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making ...
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
Richi Jennings | | facebook, Hybrid Work environment, IaaS, managing remote workers, Meta, Meta Platforms, Metaverse, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Remote work, RISC-V, RISE, teams, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working from home, Workplace from FacebookIn this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work ...
US DoJ Makes PyPI Give Up User Data ¦ Tape Storage: Not Dead
Richi Jennings | | backup, backup and recovery, backups, Canary, data backup, databackup, database backup, HPE, ibm, LTO, PyPi, Python, Python Software Foundation, Quantum Corporation, Ransomware, storage, tape, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: PyPI complies with a “string of subpoenas,” and LTO continues to grow, despite predictions of its demise ...
Predicting, Preventing and Resolving Incidents With AIOps
IT operations teams, site reliability engineers (SREs) and service providers are on a mission to scale across geographies, expand their digital services and create new experiences for customers. Amid this drive, their ...
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
Richi Jennings | | Atlassian, data center, disaster recovery, edge computing, hyperthreading, layoffs, linux, Lonestar Data Holdings, moon, performance, The Long View, ThreadIn this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, AWS, Bloom Energy, CO2 emissions, data center, data centers, datacenter, gpl, Green data center, LGPL, open source licensing, The Long View, voice.aiIn this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
Why SREs Are Critical to DevOps
Although a relatively new concept, site reliability engineers (SREs) have become crucial for DevOps teams, helping to solve an array of operational problems such as network availability and user experience. However, in ...
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours ...
The Rogers Outage of 2022: Takeaways for SREs
When, eight years from now, folks are creating lists of the top IT incidents of the 2020s, there's a good chance that they'll include the Rogers outage of 2022. The failure, which ...
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS ...
Why More Incidents Are Better
Andre King | | application performance management, incident response, site reliability engineering, SREAsk most SREs how many incidents they’d have to respond to in a perfect world, and their answer would probably be 'zero.' After all, making software and infrastructure so reliable that incidents ...
