My week shadowing a GitLab Site Reliability Engineer
Dec 16, 2019Tristan Read
Summary
This post details a frontend engineer's shadowing experience with an SRE, observing incident response. It highlights the use of various tools (PagerDuty, Slack, Grafana, Kibana, Zoom) for incident management and proposes features for GitLab like multi-user editing on issues and more webhooks for issues to improve incident response and post-mortem workflows. It also touches on the crypto miner incident and performance degradation incident.
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