Thanks to my accomodating erstwhile colleagues, I'm able to publish the original paper (with minor redactions so it makes sense for an external audience). A version of this paper later became Chapter 29 of the SRE Book.
To add a little bit of extra colour, the document came out of …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing
Read MoreThis is something I wrote for new Googlers, drinking from the information hose. It's not formally part of the onboarding process, but enough people email me about it that I suspect it's passed around a lot informally.
(With Apologies to Mary Schmich)
Everybody's Free (To Use Their Best Judgment)
Category: Writing Tagged: writing
Read MoreThis is a paper I wrote for consumption of people doing conferences and trainings at Google. I figured it was more generally applicable, so here it is: Conferences for Introverts
Category: Writing Tagged: writing conferences introverts
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I finally got my grubby mitts on an actual dead-tree copy of the SRE book. I've wanted this to exist for many years, and it's finally out there. I wrote a chapter on working with teams with high interrupt loads where the team consists of humans. It's a paraphrase of …
Category: Log Tagged: log writing
Read MoreSo, case in point (since we love examples).
A couple of years ago, when I first started fiddling with Pelican, one of the first things in the docs was 'okay, set up virtualenv and do such a thing'. My initial reaction, as an old-skool sysadmin weenie who hasn't had to …
Category: Meta Tagged: meta writing brains
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